What do we do with the problem of suffering?
Who hasn’t thrown their hands in the air and looked to the heavens and asked the question: “Why?”
“Why is this happening to me!”
People ask Dan Foster all the time,
“If God is so good, then why do bad things happen?”
He answers
It’s a fair question, but it’s not a problem that’s exclusive to Christianity.
Every worldview has to answer the question:
The Buddhist, the Hindu, the Muslim, and even the Atheist
are all confronted with the same dilemma. Why do bad things happen? And it feels like every answer simply leads to the pain of more questions. But that’s a whole other article waiting to be written.
Perhaps the best and most honest answer to the question of why God allows suffering is,
“I don’t know.”
Perhaps Christians would be well-served by offering this instead of their trite, simplistic, and stupid theological explanations for suffering.
Read Dan Foster his article: Stupid Theological Explanations for Suffering
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Preceding
- Sometimes we face trials
- Living with some type of physical disability in the U.S.A.
- Entering 2022 still Aiming for a society without exploitation or oppression
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Additional reading
- Fog, brass and light for the eyes
- Beginnings and endings are significant
- The image, living beings and being accountable to God
- Dealing with worries in our lives
- Reacting to Disasters
- Pain and Suffering is inevitable but Misery is optional
- The blessing of a broken leg
- A love not exempting us from trials
- Self inflicted misery #1 The root by man
- Self inflicted misery #7 Good news to our suffering
- Self inflicted misery #9 Subject to worldly things
- War, why do people keep doing it
- Perplexity among the nations
- An infection that seemed to spread with ease
- East Africa & CoViD-19
- Suffering
- About Suffering
- Suffering-Through the Apparent Silence of God – Foreword
- Does God stands behind all evil on earth
- Is God behind all suffering here on earth
- I Can’t Believe That (1) … God would send anyone to hell
- I Can’t Believe That … (2) God would allow children to suffer
- Words from God about suffering
- Different words from God about suffering
- Seems no future in suffering
- Suffering redemptive because Jesus redeemed us from sin
- Offer in our suffering
- Only once and with consequences
- Crucifixion for suffering
- Salvation, trust and action in Jesus #1 Suffering covered by Peace Offering
- Suffering continues
- God’s instruction about joy and suffering
- God’s promises to us in our suffering
- God’s Comfort
- Suffering produces perseverance
- Suffering leading to joy
- Patient Waiting
- About a fleshless diet
- Evil in this world not bringing us down
- Thought for June 10: Warning to be patient and ready
- A Biblestudy about Job and Suffering
- Rejoice even though bound to grieve
- Heed of the Saviour
- Faith and trial
- Hope
- Deal thy bread to the hungry
- Today’s thought “Elect exiles of the Dispersion” (December 11)
- He Healeth all thy Diseases
- Profitable disasters
- Character is built
- Today’s thought “We wait eagerly for” (January 30)
- Today’s thought “Allowed to have dominion over the universe” (January 02)
- Hanukkah gathering under the light in the darkness
- Separation from God in death, the antithesis of life
- Dying or not
- Partakers of the sufferings
- Be willing to access joy in the face of adversity
- Gospel = Good tidings, good news, a good message
- God should be your hope
- Commit your self to the trustworthy creator
- Praying to see troubles in the proper perspective
- Partakers of His Suffering
- That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us
- You God hold the future
- Songs in the night Worship God only
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Related
- The Glorious Weights We Carry
- He told us the truth!
- Suffering is Normal
- Turn the Page
- 1 Peter 2:21-23
- Suffering and Restoration
- Pain and Suffering
- To Live a Fuller Life, Embrace the Life God has Given You.
- Stand Strong (John 16:1-6)
- Life goes on, but sometimes I wish it didn’t.
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