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Saved Not Soft

If God is Good, Then Why Do We Suffer?

Saved Not Soft

Emy Moore

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5.01.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

If God is loving and just, why does He allow suffering? In this episode, we explore the tension between pain and God’s goodness, starting from the very beginning Genesis 1-3. Love cannot exist without freedom, and with freedom comes the potential for sin and its consequences. But even in suffering, God is compassionate, using it to draw us near. We break down why God allowing suffering doesn’t contradict His nature and how trusting Him means releasing our need to understand everything. From g...

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0:00.0

Hello, hello everyone and welcome back to Saved, Not Soft. What's going on everybody? I hope you guys

0:09.4

have had a blessed week so far. Hey, I'm ready. Today I'm feeling kind of like chill, very

0:16.9

vibey, but also very excited because I know God is just going to speak through this episode.

0:21.4

And I am very excited for this episode about talking about why good God allows suffering.

0:26.6

Because I tackled this topic a few months ago when a girl tagged me on a post saying, basically,

0:36.1

she was just saying, you know, I would be a sold out Christian

0:39.4

if I just knew why God would allow suffering if he's so good. And I kind of tackled that

0:46.1

conversation. And I wanted to bring that into a podcast episode form today. So there's one

0:52.1

room to talk about it and two for us to really be invited into the presence

0:56.4

of God and experience his goodness and not just our perception of what we think good is, but actually

1:02.2

embrace Jesus for who he says he is. So if you do not know me, my name is Emmy Moore. I'm the host

1:08.3

of Safe, Not Soft. Also, I just feel like saying this.

1:12.4

One of my best friends, Amani, she met somebody who had like a Save Not Soft t-shirt. And she was like,

1:19.7

oh my gosh, you watch my bestie Emmy. She's like, oh my gosh, I love her, all this stuff. And she took a

1:24.1

video of her and she was like, hey, Emmy, I love Save Not Soft.

1:28.7

And I feel like I realize I don't do this as much, but I guess I do because people who follow me literally be doing this.

1:36.4

But it's okay.

1:37.2

I don't even know where this came from.

1:38.7

But anyways, my name's Emmy Moore.

1:40.4

This is the podcast Save Not Soft.

1:41.9

What is Save Not Soft?

1:42.7

Save Not Soft is a cater podcast, unless? It's a catered podcast to let

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