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Why Suffering?: Finding Meaning and Comfort When Life Doesn't Make Sense
Why Suffering Finding Meaning and Comfort When Life Doesn't Make Sense Author:Ravi Zacharias, Vince Vitale Why would an all-good and all-powerful God create a world full of pain and suffering? In WHY SUFFERING? Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale carefully walk you through a variety of responses that considered cumulatively provide a clear, comprehensive, and convincing answer. Responses like: The good in the world would be lost if we lost the possibili... more »ty of the bad. The creation of a world without suffering would have meant our probable nonexistence. The cross makes it rational to trust God when we are suffering. In comparison with other world religions, the Christian response is distinctive. A good creator can allow suffering if he also provides the power to stand against it. Relational knowledge about God equips us to trust God amidst suffering. God's decision to allow suffering makes sense in light of the afterlife. Divine goodness is actually proven by the existence of suffering. Here is a book written with great respect for the complexity of the issue, recognizing that some who read it will be in the trenches of deep suffering themselves and others in a faith crisis about the very existence of a loving God. WHY SUFFERING? provides an answer to the problem of pain and suffering with emotional sensitivity and intellectual integrity.« less