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Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

How Could a Good God Let My Husband Suffer?

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greg answers questions about how to respond to someone who’s struggling with how a good God could let her husband suffer, how to know if something is objectively a sin, particularly when it comes to polygamy, and how to pray when asked at a family dinner where nobody is a believer.

Transcript

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0:00.0

La La La La, La,

0:02.0

La, la, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. La, friends.

0:30.0

This is Greg Kokel.

0:31.2

I'm the host of your show.

0:32.6

I have been for how long I've been doing this now? 30 many years.

0:39.3

30-something.

0:41.2

Glad you're on board, though, and I hope this is an encouragement to you.

0:46.1

I have a caller here that just came on board.

0:48.6

I think I just want to jump in with calls today.

0:52.7

And it's one that I'm sure that it deals with an issue that many people

0:57.3

have confronted. So let me just go quickly to Mark and Rochester, New York. Mark, thank you

1:03.6

for calling, and I'm glad you did. Let's chat. What's up?

1:07.6

Hey, yeah, thank you, brother. I certainly appreciate you taking my call.

1:12.2

So I have a co-worker and friend who's struggling with the issue of pain and suffering.

1:21.2

Her husband, also, they're both non-believers.

1:26.4

He was diagnosed with a neurological disorder about five years ago, and it's progressing more quickly as time goes on.

1:36.2

It involves a lot of discomfort.

1:39.2

And the thing is, they're in their early 30s, which makes it even harder with that age.

1:47.7

Sure, of course.

1:49.0

Yes, of course.

1:50.8

It's always hard, but especially at that age, I can see that.

1:54.7

Absolutely.

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