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.
For the Christian struggling for an answer, the seeker who thinks suffering disproves God's existence, and the sufferer who needs a glimpse of a loving God.
