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Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

Timeless Wisdom - Why Do Good People Suffer?

Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

Salem Podcast Network

News, Philosophy, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Politics

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Dennis Prager’s Timeless Wisdom. Each Monday through Saturday, you’ll hear some of Dennis’s best lectures, talks, and series—with brief commercial breaks.

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On Today’s Show: 

Dennis Prager explores one of life’s most difficult questions—why suffering exists even for good people—offering timeless insights and perspective on how to understand and respond to it.

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0:21.8

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0:23.3

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0:24.0

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0:25.1

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0:26.4

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0:31.4

Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager.

0:35.0

Hear thousands of hours of Dennis's lectures, courses, and classic radio programs,

0:39.5

and to purchase Dennis Prager's rational Bibles.

0:42.1

Go to Dennis Prager.com.

0:50.0

I want to think this issue out with you as rationally as possible.

0:57.2

First, we need to make two separate distinctions when asking about the problem of God and suffering.

1:07.1

The first is the distinction, the first distinction is between suffering and injustice, or better, suffering and unjust suffering.

1:21.4

When you ask the question or make the statement, I can't believe in God. Look at all the evil. Look at all the

1:30.6

injustice. Look at all the suffering in this world. I want you to at least understand what your

1:37.0

question or statement is. Most people emote that. It's an emotional issue, obviously. But let's

1:44.0

try to pinpoint intellectually where there really is an issue.

1:47.0

Therefore, number one, and this is very important, this may in and of itself immediately help half of you.

1:54.0

The question is not how do we reconcile God and suffering. It's how do we reconcile God and suffering?

2:02.5

It's how do we reconcile God and unjust suffering.

2:09.4

I've never heard anybody say, I can't believe in God, I have a terrible cold.

2:15.4

It's driving me crazy, I'm suffering from this cold a week already.

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