Book Description
A trusted apologist provides a fresh, balanced approach to understanding how a loving God can preside over a world filled with evil and suffering.
Author : Norman L. Geisler
Publisher : Bethany House
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 19,25 MB
Release : 2011-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0764208128
A trusted apologist provides a fresh, balanced approach to understanding how a loving God can preside over a world filled with evil and suffering.
Author : Clay Jones
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0736970444
"If you are looking for one book to make sense of the problem of evil, this book is for you." Sean McDowell Grasping This Truth Will Change Your View of God Forever If God is good and all-powerful, why doesn't He put a stop to the evil in this world? Christians and non-Christians alike struggle with the concept of a loving God who allows widespread suffering in this life and never-ending punishment in hell. We wrestle with questions such as... Why do bad things happen to good people? Why should we have to pay for Adam's sin? How can eternal judgment be fair? But what if the real problem doesn't start with God...but with us? Clay Jones, an associate professor of Christian apologetics at Biola University, examines what Scripture truly says about the nature of evil and why God allows it. Along the way, he'll help you discover the contrasting abundance of God's grace, the overwhelming joy of heaven, and the extraordinary destiny of believers.
Author : Randy Alcorn
Publisher : Multnomah
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 24,89 MB
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1601425791
Suffering is, in the end, God’s invitation to trust him. “As he did in his best-selling book, Heaven, Randy Alcorn delves deep into a profound subject, and through compelling stories, provocative questions and answers, and keen biblical understanding, he brings assurance and hope to all.” –Publishers Weekly Every one of us will experience suffering. You may be in such a time now. We see the presence of evil in the headlines every day. It all raises questions about God—Why would an all-good and all-powerful God create a world full of evil and suffering? How can there be a God if suffering and evil exist? Atheists such as Richard Dawkins and even former believers like Bart Ehrman answer the question simply: The existence of suffering and evil proves there is no God. But in this illuminating book, best-selling author Randy Alcorn challenges the logic of disbelief, and brings a fresh, hopeful, and thoroughly biblical insight to the issues these important questions raise. Alcorn offers insights from his conversations with men and women whose lives have been torn apart by suffering, and yet whose faith in God burns brighter than ever. He reveals the big picture of who God is and what God is doing in the world—now and forever. And he shows the beauty of God’s sovereignty—how it ultimately triumphs over suffering and evil in our lives and the world around us.
Author : Bruno Webb
Publisher : Sophia Institute Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1928832768
In this slim volume, you'll find the most convincing explanation of the mystery of evil available today.
Author : Chad Meister
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 2012-11-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830866469
Leading thinkers in Christian philosophy and apologetics take on the problem of evil and suffering. Essays from Gregory Ganssle, Yena Lee, Bruce Little, Garry DeWeese, R. Douglas Geivett and others provide critical engagement with the New Atheists and offer grounds for renewed confidence in the God who is "acquainted with grief."
Author : N. T. Wright
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,13 MB
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 083083415X
N.T. Wright explores all aspects of evil and how it presents itself in society today. Fully grounded in the story of the Old and New Testaments, this presentation is provocative and hopeful; a fascinating analysis of and response to the fundamental question of evil and justice that faces believers.
Author : Professor James A Keller
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,58 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1409477797
Why do bad things happen, even to good people? If there is a God, why aren't God's existence and God's will for humans more apparent? And if God really does miracles for some people, why not for others? This book examines these three problems of evil – suffering, divine hiddenness, and unfairness if miracles happen as believers claim – to explore how different ideas of God's power relate to the problem of evil. Keller argues that as long as God is believed to be all-powerful, there are no adequate answers to these problems, nor is it enough for theists simply to claim that human ignorance makes these problems insoluble. Arguing that there are no good grounds for the belief that God is all-powerful, Keller instead defends the understanding of God and God's power found in process theism and shows how it makes possible an adequate solution to the problems of evil while providing a concept of God that is religiously adequate.
Author : Scott Christensen
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781629955353
"Christensen's theological response to the problem of evil examines how sin, evil, corruption, and death not only fit into redemptive history but also magnify the glory of a good God"--
Author : Udo Middelmann
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,25 MB
Release : 2007-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830856870
Udo Middelmann, president of the Francis A. Schaeffer Foundation, argues for a belief in God?s radical innocence as a third way between deterministic and "openness" views of divine sovereignty.
Author : Bruce A. Little
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 29,82 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0761852549
This book examines the more traditional Christian explanation for why God permits evil in this world and offers an alternative explanation. Key Bible passages are discussed with an application of the alternative position to the great question of why God allows so much evil in this world.