2009-09-04T09:39:24-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/problem+of+evil/ http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%208:28&version=NIV 2009-09-04T09:39:24-05:00 Everything that happens--good or bad, joyful or sad--is under God's control. While God isn't the author of sin and evil, this passage reassures us that everything that happens is worked by Him into his grand plan. There's a reason for everything, even when we can't see it from our vantage point. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Pet.4.12-1Pet.4.16&version=NIV 2009-07-14T10:35:06-05:00 The experience of suffering shouldn't come as a surprise to Christians--in fact, we should expect it. Christ-followers don't find their comfort in the promise that God will end their suffering; instead they find hope in the knowledge that Christ suffers alongside us and offers us true spiritual life. http://woh.org/pdf/books/when_we_question_god.pdf 2007-12-19T12:29:01-05:00 "Why was I born?" "Why do wicked people seem to prosper?" "What happens after I die?" They are the questions our history forces on us, life-and-death issues that scream for an answer. We have nowhere else to go, no one else to turn to. We raise them with God. http://www.rbc.org/bookChapters.aspx?id=46282 2007-12-11T19:03:03-05:00 Natural disasters. Terrorist acts. Injustice. Incurable disease. All these experiences point to suffering, and can cause people to question the love and goodness of a God who would let such things occur...