Using Steve Jobs’s “closed system” philosophy as a starting point, this sermon confronts one of theology’s most difficult questions: If God is good and all-powerful, why do evil and suffering exist? We explore two radically different narratives that attempt to answer this. The first is the modern atheistic worldview, drawing on thinkers like Yuval Noah Harari and Richard Dawkins, which posits that life has no inherent meaning in a universe of “blind, pitiless indifference.” In contrast, the biblical narrative presents an “open system” God of love who necessarily created beings with free will. Discover the theological equation of “love, freedom, and risk,” and understand how pain is ultimately traceable to the misuse of this freedom, not to a failure in God’s character or power.