| People struggle with competing thoughts of a loving God in a hurtful world. Most logicians pose the question, “Why does God allow suffering?” then offer narrow paradoxes. They say it is logically inconsistent that a powerful, loving God would allow suffering in the world: why would such a god allow evil?
Christians broaden the perspective on why God allows pain. Christians argue:
- Contradictory? There can be a good reason. God must allow evil and suffering if he allows human free will.
- Illogic? Pain and suffering in the world must be met on emotional grounds; intellectual arguments do not reassure those who suffer.
- Promise! God provided Jesus Christ to suffer the evil and pain of the world to show a greater good is in store.
- Our evil! Christ’s sacrifice of pain and suffering shows the evil in the world to be our own evil. We see we need a loving God.
- Strength! A loving, powerful God, while suffering an evil world, provides inner resources to those in pain.
- Solution! God himself, far from being blameworthy for allowing evil and suffering, is the answer to a suffering world.
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