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Why Suffering?: Finding Meaning and Comfort When Life Doesn't Make Sense
Written by Vince Vitale
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About this audiobook
Why would a loving and powerful God allow so much pain and suffering? In WHY SUFFERING? Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale carefully walk you through a variety of responses that considered together provide a clear, comprehensive, and convincing answer. Responses like:
- Where there is the possibility of love, there has to be the reality of freedom, and therefore the possibility of pain.
- Wishing God had made a different world is to wish yourself out of existence.
- The cross is the key to a compelling and rational explanation for trusting in God in the face of suffering.
- In comparison with other world religions, the Christian response is highly distinctive.
- The reality of evil only makes sense in light of the reality of divine goodness.
- Relational knowledge about God takes the argument beyond reason to the presence of God amidst suffering.
- God's decision to allow temporal suffering is understandable when viewed from an eternal perspective.
- Divine goodness shows how to conquer not in spite of, but even through suffering.
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Reviews for Why Suffering?
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5There's a lot going for this book - it's very readable, and the illustrations and friendly tone are great. That said, I was a much bigger fan of the contributions by Vince than of Ravi's chapters. I would love to see Vince write more, and on his own. It's close to being a book I'd love to give to a non-Christian friend (and certainly includes plenty of gospel in their explanations) but I don't find quite enough of Ravi's writing quite persuasive enough. But nevertheless, I'm sure it has helped equip me to think and talk about suffering.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5very thoughtful and provoking but quite complex for a audiobook better to read than listen