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The Heidi St. John Podcast

WEDNESDAY REPLAY: Why Does God Allow Suffering?

The Heidi St. John Podcast

Heidi St. John

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

**TODAY WE ARE AIRING A REPLAY OF AN EPISODE THAT AIRED IN 2019** Why does God allow suffering and death if He is good? It's easy to forget the "why" of this question, and today at the podcast, I'll be addressing it from the Bible. Suffering and death is the direct result of our own sin—but God offers hope through Jesus. Tune in and be encouraged!

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0:30.2

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0:34.4

joined me today is Monday April 22nd. It's episode number 756. It's the day after

0:42.0

Easter and we're going to talk about something that's a little bit tough for us to deal with

0:46.4

as human beings. And that is the question of why does God allow suffering and death in

0:52.6

basically the question is is he good is God still good? This is a tough question, but the

0:57.8

Bible has the answer. Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.

1:09.6

Hey, I want to say thanks for following us throughout the country this season as I'm on

1:14.5

the road with my family. We have been enjoying meeting so many of you out on the road.

1:19.5

We just finished Waco, Texas and drove all the way home through. When actually we stopped

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at the Grand Canyon. Oh my goodness. Some of you guys were following my Insta stories.

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I cannot even try to explain how incredible that was. It's just been wonderful to be with

1:34.6

our kids and we're trying to teach our kids as we take them out on the road with us to

1:38.3

sort of be adults and we're not raising children, right? We're raising adults and many of you

1:43.2

have got a chance to interact with our kids. Our youngest daughter, actually all four

1:47.3

of our kids are still at home work the table with us when we're there. So they're selling

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books and they're learning how to interact with people and there are eight year old in

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