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Is the Problem of Suffering the strongest argument against God? David Robertson vs Stephen Law hosted by Andy Kind

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Can the reality of suffering disprove a good God? Oxford Philosopher Dr. Stephen Law and Christian minister Rev. David Robertson debate the problem of evil, the evil God hypothesis, and whether suffering is evidence for or against theism. Does Christianity provide a meaningful answer, or does the sheer amount of suffering make belief in God irrational? 📚 Stephen Law: The Philosophy Gym https://amzn.to/4lLnrex | stephenlaw.org | @stephenlaw60 📚 David Robertson: The Dawkins Letters https://amzn.to/3EIa1za | theweeflea.com | @theweeflea 🎧 Listen & Subscribe: https://pod.link/267142101 🎉 Bonus content & more: www.premierunbelievable.com

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0:00.0

Right now in Hackney, there's a child waiting,

0:03.0

wondering if anyone will open their door and their heart.

0:07.0

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0:12.0

If you have a spare room and are ready to make a difference, don't wait.

0:16.0

With a wide range of support provided, you might be the foster carer a Hackney child needs.

0:22.2

For more information, visit hackney.gov.uk, forward slash fostering.

0:30.0

God, if he's all powerful, would have the power to prevent any pointless or gratuitous suffering.

0:37.4

I regard suffering and evil as a reason to believe in God.

0:40.6

The one thing is absolutely certain, all of us die.

0:43.4

What the atheist has to say is, suck it up.

0:46.1

That's the way it is.

0:48.0

You think, you know, as a Christian, that torturing kids for pointlessly

0:53.2

is not something that God would do. And yet here he is apparently torturing kids pointlessly is not something that God would do.

0:56.3

And yet here he is apparently torturing kids

0:58.0

pointlessly, so deal with that.

1:00.2

As Richard Dawkins says, without an absolute God,

1:02.8

it's very difficult to have an absolute morality.

1:04.8

Well, I think there is an absolute morality.

1:06.4

I think there are things that are objectively evil and wrong.

1:10.0

You said God created the perfect world, so it was perfect with hundreds of millions of years

1:13.9

of absolutely appalling suffering.

1:16.0

Hmm.

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