THE PROBLEM OF EVIL & SUFFERING
GETTING AHEAD OF THE PROBLEM
BE READY
MATT. 26:30-35, 38-41
1 PET. 1:13
“There are millions of ordinary Christians who hold that God is omnipotent, that God is perfectly good, and that suffering abounds in the world. At many stages of their experience as Christians, they do not feel that there is a problem. They have brief theological answers that satisfy them: suffering is the result of sin; free will means that God has to leave people to make their own mistakes; heaven and hell will set the record straight. Or perhaps they have not really had to think about these matters much at all. They know God loves them, and that is enough. Why bother your head about things you cannot understand, let alone improve? And then something takes place in their own life that jolts them to the core.”
--DA Carson, How long, O Lord
THE PROBLEM OF EVIL & SUFFERING
GETTING AHEAD OF THE PROBLEM
It’s not sinful or wrong to ask hard questions