The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 59 - Why Does A Good God Allow Bad Things？

00:00:00.000 So before I went on vacation, I received an email that I wanted to respond to, but that

00:00:04.780 I didn't have a chance.

00:00:05.660 I ran out of time, so I thought there's no reason why I can't go back and respond to

00:00:08.960 it now, so that's what I'm going to do.

00:00:10.560 All right, here's what it says.

00:00:11.940 Matt, you are constantly giving God credit for good things that happen, but I notice

00:00:16.720 that you never blame him for all the evil in the world.

00:00:19.420 If your God exists and he is good, as you claim, how do you explain a world filled with

00:00:23.620 rape, murder, torture, terrorism, sex trafficking, and so many other evils?

00:00:27.400 It's clear to me that there is no evidence for any kind of God.

00:00:31.280 There especially is no evidence for a good God.

00:00:35.100 All right, so this is the classic why do bad things happen to good people objection, and

00:00:42.300 I think it's a good and important and complex question, and it's one that Christians have

00:00:47.860 been talking about and debating and writing about for centuries, since the beginning.

00:00:53.220 I also think it's kind of a weak argument against the existence of God, so it's a good

00:00:59.780 question to talk about.

00:01:01.580 I don't think it's a great argument against, you know, for the atheists.

00:01:07.580 I don't think it's a good argument in the atheist corner.

00:01:10.320 I also think that my friend here in the email didn't even use the best version of his own

00:01:14.920 argument.

00:01:15.240 He made the same oversight that a lot of atheists surprisingly make when it comes to this objection, 0.59

00:01:21.620 which is they use the weakest version of it.

00:01:24.100 So let's unpack it, and we'll start with this.

00:01:27.120 There are two forms of bad things that might happen to a person, just broadly speaking,

00:01:32.920 right?

00:01:33.120 There are two categories of bad things that happen in the world.

00:01:36.680 There's the kind of bad thing that the email describes, which is rape, murder, and so on,

00:01:43.420 things that are the result, in other words, of human choices.

00:01:46.160 If you're the victim of rape or murder, that is the result of the choice of not yourself,

00:01:52.380 but somebody else, the person who is victimizing you.

00:01:55.080 Then there are the bad things that may happen to you as a result of your own choices, and

00:01:59.340 then there are the bad things that happen to you as the result of a combination of your

00:02:03.460 own choices and the choices of other people.

00:02:05.220 So take, for example, a man who commits a crime, goes to jail, and then is murdered in

00:02:10.120 jail.

00:02:10.560 Well, the fact that he was murdered is the result of the choice of the person who murdered

00:02:14.580 him, but the fact that he was in jail to be murdered was the result of his own choice.

00:02:19.020 And I think a lot of bad things are kind of explained that way, where there's a combination

00:02:22.900 of, there's a kind of a whole storm of bad choices blowing this way and that from

00:02:29.180 all different directions, and it results in all kinds of bad things.

00:02:32.320 The other category, the one that this atheist didn't even mention, but which I think presents

00:02:38.900 a greater challenge to believers, that is the category of bad things that happen seemingly

00:02:45.340 apart from anyone's choice at all.

00:02:47.800 So diseases, okay?

00:02:52.000 Well, of course, and there are diseases that are the result of choices that we make, but

00:02:56.520 there are many, many, many tragic, millions of tragic examples of people being killed by

00:03:03.920 horrible diseases completely apart from any choice at all that they made.

00:03:06.880 It just happened to them.

00:03:08.020 They were just victims of it, and that's all.

00:03:11.940 Take the most tragic example of all, of course, would be a child who dies of cancer.

00:03:17.140 How could God create a world where a five-year-old, obviously through no fault of his own, dies

00:03:23.960 of leukemia?

00:03:25.720 Or where anyone dies of leukemia?

00:03:27.900 Or a world where anyone could die of any kind of horrible, agonizing disease at all?

00:03:32.220 Now, I'm going to try my best to answer both of these.

00:03:37.860 I should warn at the beginning that I am not a theologian, and the answer that I give is

00:03:42.080 just my own answer.

00:03:43.560 Now, it's an answer that I hope is grounded in Christian teaching and in Scripture, but

00:03:47.800 my point is, if it's a bad answer, or incomplete, or poorly conveyed, then blame me for it, okay?

00:03:56.640 Don't blame Christianity.

00:03:57.960 That would be my fault.

00:03:59.060 Now, to understand these things, we have to go back to the Christian doctrine of the

00:04:05.360 fall.

00:04:07.260 And it seems like there are a lot of atheists and secular people who just simply don't

00:04:11.480 understand this doctrine and have made no attempt to understand it.

00:04:15.800 And that's a problem, because if you're going to raise these kinds of objections against

00:04:19.680 Christianity, then you have to understand, at least on some level, this doctrine, because

00:04:26.340 it all goes back to this.

00:04:29.060 Now, it's our belief as Christians that God created, originally, human beings who were

00:04:34.440 in complete harmony with him, with each other, with themselves, with nature, with the world.

00:04:41.580 They were living in paradise.

00:04:43.520 So, when an atheist says, well, if God is loving, why didn't he create a utopia?

00:04:47.900 Why didn't he create a world filled with nothing but love and happiness and kindness and peace

00:04:54.460 and prosperity?

00:04:54.960 Well, the answer is, he did create that world.

00:04:59.680 That's exactly the kind of world he created.

00:05:02.120 And he also created many other forms of life on earth.

00:05:05.060 But the thing that separated—and here's the rub, okay—the thing that separated human

00:05:12.180 life from all other forms of life is that human life was made in the image of God.

00:05:18.620 That's what it says in Genesis.

00:05:20.680 And to be in his image meant that these humans were not merely slaves to instinct or to nature.

00:05:30.360 They were given a will of their own, a free will, the ability to choose between one thing

00:05:38.160 or another, and that still is the primary thing that separates us from the animals, is that

00:05:46.040 we can make judgments about what we ought to do and what we ought not do.

00:05:54.380 Animals cannot make those kinds of judgments.

00:05:57.360 They can't conceive of them.

00:05:59.700 They operate according to instinct.

00:06:01.760 And if they make any kinds of choices at all, I'm going to run this way or that way, it

00:06:08.180 is—these are morally neutral choices.

00:06:12.140 And even those choices, in the end, go back to instinct.

00:06:15.400 We, however, are above that, and so we can assess, this is right, this is wrong, I'm going

00:06:22.600 to do the right thing, or I'm going to do the wrong thing.

00:06:24.780 And that will, that incredible power that God gave us, is one of the primary things that

00:06:35.300 makes us creatures in his image.

00:06:40.520 Now, as long as these humans chose to obey God and to remain in communion with him, they

00:06:48.980 were happy and they were safe and they were in paradise.

00:06:51.140 God ruled over man, and through man, God ruled over nature. 0.85

00:06:56.960 So we say that man had dominion over nature, dominion over the animals.

00:07:00.540 Well, of course, God is really the one who had dominion over nature and the animals, but

00:07:04.720 he had dominion over nature, over the animals, through man.

00:07:09.940 He ruled through man, and man was able to enjoy that.

00:07:14.720 He was able to enjoy that dominion, so long as he submitted to God's authority.

00:07:19.800 Now, if you're an atheist, you don't, let me just step to the side here for a minute.

00:07:24.880 If you're an atheist, you don't believe that any of this happened.

00:07:27.720 I realize that.

00:07:28.680 I know.

00:07:29.680 But the question that I was asked, and that atheists ask all the time is, why would a good 1.00

00:07:34.820 God allow bad things?

00:07:36.980 I'm trying to explain that.

00:07:38.760 I am not trying to explain why God exists.

00:07:42.000 That's a completely separate conversation.

00:07:44.000 I'm just trying to explain how Christians can believe in a good God who allows bad things.

00:07:51.680 And this is one of the problems that we run into when it comes to, you know, discussions

00:07:55.360 between atheists and theists, is that every conversation eventually goes back to an argument

00:08:02.020 about whether or not God exists.

00:08:03.660 And of course, inevitably, it will come back to that.

00:08:05.840 But if you're trying to understand, you know, individual Christian doctrines, and if you're

00:08:12.080 trying to understand not just our belief in God generally, but the kind of our belief in

00:08:23.180 the goodness of God and in the nature, the good, loving nature of God, if you're trying

00:08:29.080 to understand that, then you have to be able to put aside for a moment your objections about

00:08:35.200 the existence of God completely, and instead look at the individual doctrines.

00:08:41.180 Okay?

00:08:41.940 So there was this harmony.

00:08:44.120 And then man chose to rebel against God.

00:08:47.700 So before we got there, now, we just got into the rebellion.

00:08:51.140 But before we got to that point, everything makes sense in terms of, well, this is what

00:08:56.700 a loving God would do, right?

00:08:58.760 Garden of Eden, paradise, even from an atheist perspective, even though you don't believe in 0.92

00:09:03.720 God, but I guess you probably would say, well, yeah, if there was a God and he really was

00:09:07.500 a good God, that's the kind of world he would have made.

00:09:10.160 Okay, great.

00:09:11.060 That's the kind of world he did make, according to Christians. 0.88

00:09:14.020 But there was that thing, remember?

00:09:17.680 That power, that will, that free will, that choice that he gave us.

00:09:23.540 So man took that choice, and he used it to rebel against God.

00:09:29.140 And for the purposes of this conversation, it doesn't really matter what exactly that

00:09:35.300 choice was.

00:09:36.600 The exact nature of that choice for this conversation doesn't matter.

00:09:40.840 The point is, he was given at every moment a choice between serving himself and serving

00:09:48.020 God.

00:09:48.680 And for a period of time, he chose to serve God.

00:09:51.240 He was happy.

00:09:51.720 And then one day, he chose himself.

00:09:55.260 And then catastrophe struck.

00:09:57.600 And a whole literal world of misery followed.

00:10:02.180 Now, the objection to that is, well, why would anyone choose that?

00:10:05.340 You're in paradise.

00:10:06.340 You're in utopia.

00:10:07.600 I mean, it's unreasonable to claim that somebody could be in paradise and then choose to destroy

00:10:13.220 all of that.

00:10:15.540 Well, it is, in the end, an unreasonable choice.

00:10:17.840 But it is, but is it unreasonable to believe that, that a, that a person in paradise would

00:10:24.880 make that choice?

00:10:26.560 No, it's not unreasonable at all.

00:10:29.100 I mean, look even at your own life.

00:10:32.300 You have made in your own life, if you're going to be honest about it, you have made smaller

00:10:37.940 versions of that exact same choice.

00:10:40.480 I'm sure there have been points in your life when, you know, you have been in a situation

00:10:45.180 where there is relative harmony and ease and happiness, and then you do something that

00:10:52.120 destroys it.

00:10:54.360 And later on, you look back on it with a little bit of maturity and wisdom and hopefully with

00:10:58.220 some self-awareness, and you say, why did I do that?

00:11:01.680 It's crazy.

00:11:02.440 Why, why, I, you know, I had this good thing.

00:11:04.820 Why did I ruin it?

00:11:05.760 Or take a more extreme example of, but a very common example of somebody who's in basically

00:11:12.980 a happy marriage, a peaceful marriage, a marriage with harmony and unity, and then one day they

00:11:18.820 go out and have an affair.

00:11:21.100 And even the affair itself, there's that fleeting physical pleasure that comes with the affair,

00:11:26.200 but it's also caked in on both sides and guilt and secrecy and lies and misery and all of that

00:11:37.400 for this fleeting pleasure.

00:11:39.360 And then in the end, it ends up destroying this good, wonderful thing that the adulterer had.

00:11:46.620 And that person is going to look back on it later, and they're going to say, why did I do that?

00:11:51.460 You know, when they're divorced and they're living alone in their one-bedroom apartment

00:11:56.180 and their spouse hates them and their kids hate them, they're going to look back on that

00:12:00.700 wonderful thing they had, living in that, you know, in that nice home with the white picket fence

00:12:04.380 and the kids and the nice family and the vacations, and now they're just alone in misery.

00:12:09.700 And they're going to say, why did I do that?

00:12:12.780 I had everything.

00:12:14.280 So the point is, you know, it's not that hard to understand how a man in paradise could choose

00:12:22.980 to destroy it, because people have continued making exactly that choice over and over and

00:12:30.140 over again, and you yourself have made it on some level at various points in your life.

00:12:35.840 So a man chose to rebel, and there was this break.

00:12:39.420 There was this divorce.

00:12:40.460 You know, I use the example of marriage for a reason, because that's the example that Scripture

00:12:44.940 uses constantly.

00:12:46.560 In describing man's relationship to God, the image of marriage is used frequently.

00:12:53.260 And God, through the prophets in the Old Testament, is constantly accusing sinners of being adulterers.

00:12:59.280 Not because they're literally committing adultery, although sometimes they are,

00:13:02.400 but what he's saying is that they are adulterers because they are betraying him,

00:13:05.840 they're betraying their relationship to him.

00:13:08.160 And so this image of marriage is used.

00:13:11.060 And so it makes sense to say that at the fall, there was this split, this divorce.

00:13:16.500 And the unity, the harmony, was destroyed by the free choice of man.

00:13:22.880 Man had separated himself from God, and in the process, he had lost, in many respects,

00:13:28.760 his dominion over nature.

00:13:30.500 He became subject to nature.

00:13:32.720 He found himself at nature's mercy, because he had stepped out of line.

00:13:38.300 He had stepped out of the process.

00:13:39.400 Remember, there was this process.

00:13:40.900 There was God, man, nature.

00:13:42.780 God ruled nature through man.

00:13:44.560 Man had dominion over nature.

00:13:46.380 Well, man extricated himself from that process and ended up literally in the wilderness,

00:13:51.980 and now at the mercy of nature.

00:13:54.380 And so in some sense, he still has dominion over nature,

00:13:56.900 but also nature has dominion now over him.

00:13:59.660 And this is where things like disease and senility and human frailty and all of that

00:14:04.260 come into the picture.

00:14:05.180 But then the next question is, okay, well, so it makes sense that the first human beings

00:14:11.920 were given this choice.

00:14:12.840 They made the bad choice.

00:14:13.700 They suffered the consequences.

00:14:14.800 Well, then why do we all have to suffer the consequences?

00:14:17.620 And there is an element of mystery there.

00:14:19.160 We can't get around it.

00:14:20.120 We can't escape it.

00:14:21.600 God could have corrected the problem right away.

00:14:24.040 He could have corrected it, balanced the account, changed everything.

00:14:27.700 During mankind's first generation, but he chose not to.

00:14:31.840 Why did he make that choice?

00:14:33.400 Well, I mean, nobody can speak absolutely to the motivations of God.

00:14:36.740 I think that's a very dangerous thing to try to do.

00:14:39.140 I'm not even going to attempt it, but I will say this.

00:14:42.340 We have to understand that a change occurred, not just to the individual people involved at

00:14:48.280 the time personally, but a change occurred to the human species, to the human race.

00:14:53.840 A change occurred to our very nature.

00:14:57.160 There was a change in the nature of man.

00:15:00.280 These being the first humans, our first parents, them stepping out, them stepping away from that

00:15:08.020 harmony with God.

00:15:10.040 Well, kind of logically, by doing that, they took all of us out of harmony.

00:15:14.860 Again, it's not that hard to understand when we look at, on a personal level, we look at

00:15:20.660 examples that are all around us now, maybe examples that are in our own lives.

00:15:24.860 Think about a father who chooses to be abusive, a father who chooses to be an abusive tyrant.

00:15:33.160 Well, when the father decides to be like that, a change occurs to the family itself, to the

00:15:42.360 nature of the family, and the consequences will be felt through the generations.

00:15:47.420 A new course is set.

00:15:50.080 Or you know what?

00:15:50.500 I think a better example is, let's go back to divorce. 0.62

00:15:54.880 There was the divorce that when man at the fall betrayed God, there was that divorce.

00:16:01.320 Think about divorces in, you know, actual personal marriages.

00:16:07.180 And let's say it's a divorce where one person, where a man decides to abandon his family.

00:16:13.100 Well, in doing that, he has broken the family apart without the direct consent of all the

00:16:19.700 other members of the family.

00:16:21.120 And he has set the family on a new course, a bad course.

00:16:24.540 And it is a, and he has set off a series of consequences that will be felt all through

00:16:29.560 down the line, that will be felt by his children, and his children's children, and his children's

00:16:33.700 children's children.

00:16:34.660 Even 15 generations later, you could look at children that are being born 15 generations

00:16:39.900 later, and you could say correctly that they would not be quite like this if not for the

00:16:46.960 choice that that man made 15 generations ago.

00:16:50.840 You know, there is this, we're all, we are all connected, right?

00:16:56.500 We're, especially in a family, we're all, we are all connected, and the choices that we make

00:17:02.880 affect others, and the choices that we make as parents have effect on our children and all down

00:17:06.640 the line.

00:17:07.480 So it makes sense that this horrible choice that our first parents made would be felt all

00:17:14.040 down the line.

00:17:14.660 So that's all kind of on the first aspect of the question.

00:17:19.520 That's my very brief and insufficient explanation about how disease entered the world and why

00:17:24.080 we are suffering the consequences of the fall today.

00:17:26.420 But let's look at the second aspect of the question.

00:17:28.620 What about all the bad things that happen as a result of people victimizing each other?

00:17:33.500 Now, this, I think, is easier to understand, especially in light of what we just talked about,

00:17:36.900 and it's pretty simple, I think.

00:17:38.300 God gives us the power to choose.

00:17:40.560 Just as he gave Adam and Eve the power to choose, he also gives us the power to choose.

00:17:46.080 And though they chose wrongly, and we inevitably suffer the consequences of that wrong choice,

00:17:51.180 still, we have the power to choose rightly.

00:17:54.320 Now, you can't help it if you were born to a broken family, divorced parents, abusive father,

00:17:59.040 whatever, but you can help carrying that on.

00:18:03.920 You can help it if you make the same choice.

00:18:06.700 Because your likelihood of making the same choice may be increased because your parents

00:18:12.360 were terrible, but you don't have to make the same choice.

00:18:15.940 You could make a different choice.

00:18:18.800 And if you end up in the same situation, you know, if your parents were abusive, terrible,

00:18:22.320 and then you end up abusive and terrible, I think your parents deserve a lot of the guilt

00:18:27.600 and blame for that because they set you on that course.

00:18:30.680 But you also deserve 100% of the guilt and blame because in the end, you still made a choice.

00:18:38.540 Why are we given a choice?

00:18:40.840 Why does God allow us to make bad choices?

00:18:44.840 Because choice and the potential for a bad choice is necessary for love to exist.

00:18:54.560 Love is a choice.

00:18:55.780 And if we really are going to love God and love each other, we have to choose it.

00:19:02.140 If you don't choose love, then love is meaningless.

00:19:06.700 If your wife doesn't choose to love you, then her love for you means nothing.

00:19:12.540 If your wife wants to leave you and leave the marriage, and your only way to keep her with you 0.98

00:19:17.160 is to lock her in the basement, then the fact that she is still with you and in the marriage

00:19:22.100 is meaningless.

00:19:22.840 She's only there because she has no other choice but to be there.

00:19:28.720 If we have no choice but to love God, then we are just God's robots.

00:19:34.260 We are God's puppets.

00:19:36.080 We are not creatures made in his image.

00:19:38.500 We are just puppets on a string.

00:19:41.600 And in that case, in a world without choice and without meaningful chosen love,

00:19:47.340 then we would have to look at all the misery and all the suffering

00:19:50.080 and say that it's all part of some weird, awful game or stage play that God is putting on.

00:19:56.440 But that's not the case.

00:19:57.880 God wants us to love.

00:19:59.440 He created a world with love.

00:20:02.080 He created it in love.

00:20:03.520 God is love himself.

00:20:05.200 And God wants us to share in that love.

00:20:07.560 He wants us to be virtuous, to be holy, to be good, to have joy.

00:20:10.980 But none of that can happen without choice.

00:20:14.620 But choice, the choice to do something, presupposes the option of doing the opposite.

00:20:20.900 If you have the choice to do X and X is good, then you must also have the choice to do Y,

00:20:27.460 even if Y is bad.

00:20:29.420 If you had no choice but to do X, then you never had a choice and you didn't choose to do X.

00:20:35.100 And therefore, X is meaningless.

00:20:37.780 The fact that you're doing X means nothing.

00:20:41.420 And if God gives us the choice to do bad or good, but then every time we try to do bad,

00:20:47.960 he just reaches out his hand and blocks us from doing it every single time,

00:20:52.640 then again, we never really had a choice.

00:20:56.360 So, why does God allow, you know, a man to set a building on fire?

00:21:05.320 For the same reason he allows a man to rush into a burning building and rescue a child from it.

00:21:12.460 If a man can't choose acts of cowardice and evil and destruction,

00:21:17.360 then he cannot choose acts of courage and self-sacrifice and generosity.

00:21:21.400 If we do not want a world with the potential for evil,

00:21:27.040 then that means we don't want a world with the potential for good.

00:21:32.220 And that's not to say that good is dependent upon evil.

00:21:34.940 It's not to say that this isn't dualism we're talking about here.

00:21:38.220 I'm merely saying that the point of life is to choose God and choose good.

00:21:42.880 And such a point, such a purpose can't be achieved in a world where the opposite choice is impossible.

00:21:51.880 Love is a choice by its nature.

00:21:55.260 And so what you could really say is,

00:21:57.160 God could not have created a world where there is love but no free will.

00:22:04.020 Because love is a certain thing.

00:22:06.660 Love has a nature.

00:22:08.720 Again, God is love.

00:22:10.860 And love by its nature is an act of will.

00:22:15.040 God's love is perfect because his will is perfect.

00:22:19.900 Which isn't to say that he doesn't have a will.

00:22:22.320 But his will is perfect.

00:22:24.360 But this idea that, well, why didn't God choose a,

00:22:27.000 why didn't God make a world where there's love and happiness and harmony,

00:22:30.860 but there's no choice for anything else?

00:22:32.820 And we're all just automatons programmed to always do the good thing.

00:22:38.080 Well, because that's nonsensical.

00:22:40.140 That's kind of like the question of,

00:22:41.520 can God make a, you know, create a boulder that's so heavy he can't lift it?

00:22:45.800 That's just a nonsensical question.

00:22:48.200 It means nothing.

00:22:49.760 And to say, well, could there be a world with love but no choice and no will?

00:22:54.800 That's just nonsense.

00:22:56.180 It means nothing.

00:22:57.500 It's like saying, can there be a world with up and no down?

00:23:00.040 It's just, it doesn't, it doesn't make any sense.

00:23:02.820 Now, there's one other thing to remember.

00:23:05.240 And this is really important, of course.

00:23:06.760 As Christians, you know, it's like we can't leave this part out of it.

00:23:10.480 That the Christian belief, my own belief,

00:23:15.780 and if you're trying to understand the Christian belief,

00:23:18.540 you have to also keep this in mind,

00:23:20.800 that God did not abandon us to this fate.

00:23:24.740 Yeah, he created a world.

00:23:26.800 He created a paradise.

00:23:28.220 Man chose to abandon that, chose to serve himself rather than God.

00:23:32.420 And that choice has been repeated billions of times down the generations by everybody.

00:23:38.040 And many horrible things happen as a result and continue to happen.

00:23:42.340 However, God did not abandon us to that.

00:23:44.460 He did, he's not just sitting back and saying, whoops,

00:23:47.660 he's not just sitting back and saying, well, you know, sorry about all that, guys.

00:23:51.160 You're out of luck.

00:23:52.860 And that's why God sent his son.

00:23:56.260 That's why God sent Christ.

00:23:58.420 God himself came to earth, incarnate, to redeem mankind,

00:24:03.880 to kind of drag us out of the pit.

00:24:08.160 They talked about the example of the, you know, of the burning building

00:24:11.460 and the man who rushes in.

00:24:14.240 Well, God himself was the man who rushed into the building to save us.

00:24:18.840 And so even though we live in a world now where there is misery and misfortune

00:24:26.400 and pain and suffering and agony and all of those things,

00:24:29.720 we are not abandoned to that world.

00:24:32.480 We are not doomed to live in it forever.

00:24:34.460 And this is not the whole picture, the whole story.

00:24:38.000 This is not the whole point.

00:24:40.260 The full point, the full purpose will be realized in the next life.

00:24:45.260 But it is inevitable in the meantime that choice is a part of the story

00:24:51.720 and that we have to continue making the right choices.

00:24:55.020 We have to continue choosing God.

00:24:57.500 So hopefully that was a somewhat sufficient explanation.

00:25:00.880 Although if you're, I'm trying to find it, I can't find it.

00:25:03.520 If you're really looking for, I had the book somewhere.

00:25:06.580 If you're really looking for a better explanation as to, you know,

00:25:09.100 if you want a better answer to this question, oh, here it is.

00:25:12.380 Pick up this book, Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis.

00:25:14.880 It's, you know, it's really short and thin here.

00:25:17.340 And he addresses this same question and he does it much better than I do.

00:25:21.200 And you can read this whole book in like a couple hours.

00:25:23.580 And so I'd recommend that you do that as well.

00:25:25.940 Thanks for watching, everybody.

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The Matt Walsh Show - July 11, 2018

Ep. 59 - Why Does A Good God Allow Bad Things？

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