Suffering
Natural disasters.
Terrorist acts.
Injustice.
Incurable disease.
All these experiences point to suffering, and
can cause people to question the love and
goodness of a God who would let such things
occur.
In this publication, we seek to consider who
God is, and why we can trust Him even when
life hurts—and we don’t know why.
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Suffering Comes With The Freedom To Choose
Loving parents long to protect their children
from unnecessary pain.
But wise parents know the danger of over-
protection.
They know that the freedom to choose is at
the heart of what it means to be human, and
that a world without choice would be worse
than a world without pain.
Worse yet would be a world populated by
people who could make wrong choices
without feeling any pain.
No one is more dangerous than the liar, thief,
or killer who doesn’t feel the harm he is
doing
to himself and to others
(Genesis 2:15-17).