If God Is Good, Why Does Evil Exist?
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
Salem Podcast Network
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Timeless Wisdom, Dennis Prager explores the complex issue of reconciling God's existence with the presence of evil and suffering in the world. He shares a powerful argument from Rabbi Milton Steinberg, highlighting that the believer in God must account for the existence of evil and suffering, while the atheist must account for the existence of everything else. Dennis also delves into the concept of unjust suffering, discussing the role of human evil and the natural world. He acknowledges the difficulty of this issue, but emphasizes the importance of intellectual honesty and the need to consider the possibility that there may be answers beyond human understanding.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's episode of Timeless Wisdom. |
| 0:03.6 | The believer in God has to account for the existence of one thing, evil and suffering. |
| 0:10.2 | The atheist has to account for the existence of everything else. |
| 0:15.3 | That's big. |
| 0:16.6 | It has served in my life at moments of doubt to be a very very persuasive argument |
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| 1:16.5 | And hello everybody and welcome to the Dennis Prager show, The Ultimate Issues Hour. |
| 1:22.6 | Every week at this time, I talk to you about some great issue of life. |
| 1:25.7 | And I can't believe I have not done this one. |
| 1:28.5 | I looked at the list and I have not done this one. It looked at the list, and I have not done this one. |
| 1:30.9 | It's the ultimate of the ultimate issues. |
| 1:31.9 | It's ultimate squared. |
| 1:38.5 | And that is God and suffering, called the problem of theodicy. |
| 1:42.9 | Not theology, Theodicy, D-I-C-Y. |
| 1:49.4 | And that is reconciling god with all the suffering the unjust suffering the evil and the tragedies of this life in this world if you ask people |
| 1:58.3 | who don't believe in god why they don't or why they're, yeah, in other words, agnostics or atheists, that's often the biggest reason. |
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