Why Does God Allow Suffering?

5+ hour, 24+ min ago   (511+ words) Forty-two years ago this August, our family was torn apart by my 26-year-old sister’s decision to take her own life. In August this year, our troubled son-in-law died by suicide. I can’t write about all the devastating grief, overwhelming confusion,…...

1+ day, 35+ min ago   (323+ words) Good morning. As you read this devotional. Look and see if the Lord put a particular time he would deliver you out of your trouble? “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (133+ words) Galatians 4:16 — Have I become your enemy by telling you the truth? Colossians 3:9 — Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices. Job 6:24-25a — “Teach me, and I will be quiet; show me where…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1667+ words) Sometimes the hardest part of life isn’t losing something. It’s realizing that the thing you were praying so hard to keep may never have been meant to stay. A relationship ends. A job disappears. A plan falls apart. Someone walks…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (439+ words) Would God even bother with such an atheistic belief over Him? It’s not the thought of losing belief in Him that’s scary, nor does this…Continue reading on Medium » God is dead, and we killed Him. Generations passed, and religion's…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (888+ words) Sometimes “I don’t know” is an honest Christian answer. I have become more comfortable saying that as I have gotten older. There are things God has revealed clearly in Scripture, and there are things He hasn’t explained in the level…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (224+ words) What is man, that thou art mindful of him? — Psalm 8:4 I have asked that question many times walking through life. In a world of 8 billion people, why does God still see me? Still hear me? Still reach for me? That…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (430+ words) Exodus 32:14 And the LORD changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people.When the Israelites were in the desert, wandering, lost, and without the joy they expected in their freedom fromthe cruel Egyptian leadership,…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (133+ words) The claim that God used a process involving death, disease, and suffering before humanity creates theological problems. Such a view conflicts with the biblical understanding of sin, death, God, and… This post was originally published on this site. The claim…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1641+ words) None of this is new philosophy, and yet disagreements keep showing up. What follows is why bringing God into the picture moves the question instead of answering it, and why that is not the same as disproving God. “…a mental…...