Why Does God Allow Evil?

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greg answers questions about why God allows evil, whether denominations really matter, whether Matthew 16 says Peter was the first pope, and how Greg’s view on decision making and the will of God fits with passages in James, Ruth, and Esther.

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0:00.0	La La La, la, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, boy.
0:28.0	All right, friends, Greg Cogel here, stand to reason.
0:30.3	I'm 35 seconds late.
0:32.2	My bad.
0:33.5	I think this is the first time that's even happened, so we're just off-kilter just a little
0:38.1	bit.
0:39.1	Nevertheless, you'll get your full show here, and glad that you've joined me here.
0:44.4	We had a call our last segment that we lost, who asked a question that is kind of a perennial
0:51.4	challenge that I want to speak to in somewhat of a general fashion.
0:57.8	The question simply was, why does God allow evil?
1:05.4	Why does God allow evil?
1:10.0	And so I'm going to offer two ways of thinking about this or through two aspects of answer to this question.
1:25.2	Now, this isn't the way the question was put, but many times it is put this way.
1:30.1	How can there be a God when there's so much evil in the world?
1:35.5	All right?
1:36.5	And the attempt there is to show that the existence of evil in the world is an evidence
1:42.7	against the existence of God.
1:44.5	And frankly, that's the most common way that it comes up.
1:47.9	And I address this thoroughly in Street Smarts under, in a chapter titled evil, colon, atheism's fatal flaw.
2:03.6	Wait, did I hear that right?
2:05.6	Atheism's fatal? I thought that's Theism's fatal fall. No, that there is evil in the world
2:10.6	is one of the best arguments for the existence of God, not against the existence of God.
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