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In fact, as Paul reminds us, it may lead you to your worst life yet before it's your best life ever.

That's the first thing, suffering then glory.

The other thing that we could say about of the many, what the resurrection of Christ means to daily life, is going back to the distinction we drew in a previous lecture of these two ages.

And Paul tells us, Galatians 1.4, that we live in this present evil age.

an age sunk in sin, a world scarred by the transgression of our first father, Adam, and carried out countless untold trillions of times since then by his descendants.

We live in a world of the reality of all kinds of awfulness, all kinds of disparities, all kinds of evil.

And that's one of the grand questions of our time, isn't it?

How do we make sense of suffering and evil?

And let's go back to the distinction we drew in a previous lecture between naturalism and Christianity.

You see, here's where it all falls apart for those who would believe that science is the only way to know truth and the natural world is all there is.

If the natural world is all there is and science alone can explain truth, then we have to ask then, why do we care about evil?

Because if we are just atoms clanking into one another or separated by infinite space, then there is no such thing as evil.

And any injustice that makes your blood temperature go up is simply a chemical reaction with no meaning, no purpose, and no moral value.

But none of us lives like that.

Ever.

We hate evil.

If you're a normal functioning adult, you hate it.

Children hate it.

And the only thing that makes sense of all the suffering and evil in the world is the biblical storyline, the truth, the reality that we are all descended from Adam.

And we're guilty born in him.