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Famine, sickness, terrorist attacks, natural disasters—each day horrific scenes of suffering stream before us via television, the Internet, and newspapers. Believers are taught that God is good, and they believe this truth. Yet when faced with suffering and hardships, the one question believers are most often asked is, why? Suffering and the Goodness of God brings insight to many contemporary...

in the midst of a prayer, thereby assuming that there is still a personal relationship with God. Lamentations deals straight on with the concept of God’s anger, using almost the full range of the Old Testament’s rich and varied vocabulary for wrath.12 This concept may make us moderns uncomfortable. But God’s anger is the sign that he still cares for us and is committed to shattering our apathy:13 “The moment anger is eliminated from God, suffering is depersonalized.… Anger is an insistence on the
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