Why God Lets Bad Things Happen (Part I)
Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater
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🗓️ 12 July 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being here. |
| 0:03.0 | We've done a couple episodes here about the Texas flood. |
| 0:07.0 | We decided to do a TV special on it as well, and we had some amazing guests. |
| 0:12.0 | We had one man who wrote a book about his sister when she had six months left to live. |
| 0:18.0 | Then we talked to another man who lost his nine-year-old son when he was |
| 0:21.7 | perfectly healthy and it was just like 36 hours later and his son passed away from some |
| 0:27.4 | disease. They were like, what? They didn't even know. So these men have been through it and this |
| 0:32.0 | incredible truth that we need to arm ourselves with. That is in the next episode we'll put out. |
| 0:37.8 | In this episode, we have my opening monologue just with a couple truths. |
| 0:41.1 | And then we had a guest who, I'll let you now, had a bit of a wild thought |
| 0:47.1 | that I don't necessarily agree with or haven't even thought about. |
| 0:53.5 | But he can still speak to the moment that was |
| 0:55.1 | there and he did have some an interesting truism at the end that that's worth |
| 1:00.8 | knowing here's our opening two segments on our special why does God let bad |
| 1:05.4 | things happen welcome to Paul Welcome to politics by faith. |
| 1:16.7 | Why does God? |
| 1:19.6 | Bad things happen. |
| 1:21.9 | We did a special many years ago on why God or why bad things happen to good people. |
| 1:28.5 | It's time we do another one. |
| 1:30.2 | Inspired by the horrible flash floods in Texas. |
| 1:34.9 | They killed over 100 people. |
| 1:36.5 | As we record this, they're still, unless it's always like 170 missing. |
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