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Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People: A Biblical Look at the Problem of Suffering is unavailable, but you can change that!

Why doesn’t doing good guarantee an easy life? One of the most common objections to the Christian Faith is ‘If God created the universe, and is still in control of it, then why does He allow suffering and injustice?’ Melvin Tinker considers the different opinions people have before investigating the biblical answers about a crucial topic that needs to be faced by an evangelistic church. Tinker...

by ‘denying the doctrine of omnipotence fundamental to it’.3 Or thirdly, one could deny the goodness of God, a view well captured by Archibald MacLeish in his play JB, an updated presentation of the story of Job in which one finds the haunting refrain: ‘If he is God he is not good, if he is good he is not God.’ The traditional Christian claim, however, is that God is good and almighty, and that evil and suffering are realities to be reckoned with. The ‘problem’ therefore turns on how to relate these
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