Why Suffering?: Finding Meaning and Comfort When Life Doesn't Make Sense

by Ravi Zacharias (Author), Vince Vitale (Author)

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  2014

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  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 possibility of the bad.
  - The creation of a world without suffering would have meant our probable nonexistence.
  - The cross is the key to a compelling and rational explanation for trust in God in the face of the worst kind of suffering.
  - In comparison with other world religions, the Christian response is distinctive.
  - A good creator can allow suffering if he also provides the sustaining power to stand against it.
  - Relational knowledge about God takes the argument beyond reason to the presence of God amidst suffering.
  - God's decision to allow temporal suffering makes sense in light of an eternal perspective.
  - Divine goodness shows how to conquer not in spite of, but even through 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.