Does God Cause Animal Suffering?

Open Forum – Questions Covered:

• 07:28 - I’m a Baptist considering Catholicism. Can you help clarify how Aquinas is not just reasonable but biblical in his understanding?
• 17:19 - If God is infinitely greater than man, why do our works matter?
• 21:29 - How do respond to the claim Act 8:22 is evidence for confessing directly to God?
• 28:22 - How does irresistible grace differ from efficacious according to Aquinas?
• 32:52 - If God permits evil so that humans can choose love, can we say the same thing for animal suffering? Can we say they have free will, if not does God cause evil?
• 43:18 - We see God do a lot of miracles in the bible. Why don’t we see him perform miracles like he did then?
• 49:00 - How does Luke 20:37 prove that there is a resurrection?
• 53:06 - Why isn’t the sacrament of penance extended to Protestants?