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How Could a Good God Let My Husband Suffer?


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Greg answers questions about how to respond to someone who’s struggling with how a good God could let her husband suffer, how to know if something is objectively a sin, particularly when it comes to polygamy, and how to pray when asked at a family dinner where nobody is a believer.
 
Topics:
  1. How should I respond to someone who is struggling with the question of how a good God could let her husband suffer? (00:00)
  2. How can we know if something is objectively a sin or not, particularly when it comes to polygamy? (25:00)
  3. What should I say in my prayer when I'm asked to pray at my family’s Thanksgiving dinner where nobody is a believer? (49:00)
    Mentioned on the Show: 
    • The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis
    • Street Smarts: Using Questions to Answer Christianity’s Toughest Challenges by Greg Koukl
    • Confessions of a French Atheist: How God Hijacked My Quest to Disprove the Christian Faith by Guillaume Bignon
      Related Links:
      • What You Need to Know about Evil and Suffering by Amy Hall
      • If God Is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil by Randy Alcorn
      • What Would Polygamy Do to Society? by Amy Hall
      • Does God Endorse Polygamy? by Alan Shlemon
      • Polygamy in the Bible Is Not Prescriptive by Robby Lashua
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