Loading…

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...

for the sake of those who did it, a point well made by Dorothy L. Sayers in her play, The Man Born to be King. For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is—limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death—He had the honesty and the courage to take His own medicine. Whatever game He is playing with His creation He has kept his own rules and played fair. He has Himself gone through the whole of human experience, from the trivial irritations of family life and lack of money to the worst
Page 30