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in the beginning God created heaven and earth and we'll skip a few parts over there at some point he gets up to creating man Adam Adam and Eve mankind comes onto the sea now they lived in the Garden of Eden they lived in a very beautiful perfect Blissful world and they had only one challenge they were given a task because again this idea that even they had to earn the good that they would receive so they would give it a challenge that challenge was to pass test number one and test was to pass test number one and test came test number one came and they didn't pass it they failed now it's it's really fascinating at mind blowing what what they when they failed that first test so what could have taken a few hours to fix is now in the process of taking almost 6,000 years to fix and let us understand why is it taking 6,000 years to fix what could have been fixed in a few hours then and and and even more so what are we fixing why are we more so what are we fixing why are we here for 6,000 years Darkness suffering murder I mean is there any if any story is full of suffering and hardship and we could write not one book we could write we could fill all the libraries with books of Jewish suffering now why why is that so how come if God loves us so much we're the apple of his eye and we're his chosen people then why does he let us suffer so much why do we suff pain is very real and we go through so much of that and and we have a good question and I know be upset if we asking you if a
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- 0:00in the beginning God created heaven and earth and we'll skip a few parts over there…
- 2:01Adams and evees and all of our eventually we were we were we were sidetracked we…
- 4:06sickness that you see today they had it in the door of the flood there are…
- 6:06was scattered the people were scattered and they were given 70 languages so they weren't killed…
- 8:10to Abraham and now in this time we're dealing with a city called Stone Sodom again…
- 10:12again I got you now but the much shorter version Don't Worry who were all all…
- 12:18hasem ever ever patient says I'm not giving up on you I'm going to bring you…
- 14:20again they had to to leave the world coming back in in s and Sodom and…
- 16:25and we came in Egypt and somehow miraculously with what we call we kind of like…
- 18:28go through that narrow path and that was try we have to go through mitah to…
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