many people, pain is the most significant argument against the existence of God (or, at least, a good God). But through the voices of dozens of prophets and apostles and Jesus Himself in the Scriptures, the message is this: God wants you to believe because God does, in fact, know pain, not as a spectator, but as a sufferer. In fact, if all human beings are the offspring of God, then God suffers as a parent to see any pain. And that leads to an obvious question: Why doesn't God put a stop to it? The