Why Suffering?: Finding Meaning and Comfort When Life Doesn't Make Sense

Why would an all-good and all-powerful God create a world full of pain and suffering? In WHY SUFFERING? Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale carefully walk you through a variety of responses that considered cumulatively provide a clear, comprehensive, and convincing answer. Responses like:

- The good in the world would be lost if we lost the possibility of the bad.

- The creation of a world without suffering would have meant our probable nonexistence.

- The cross is the key to a compelling and rational explanation for trust in God in the face of the worst kind of suffering.

- In comparison with other world religions, the Christian response is distinctive.

- A good creator can allow suffering if he also provides the sustaining power to stand against it.

- Relational knowledge about God takes the argument beyond reason to the presence of God amidst suffering.

- God's decision to allow temporal suffering makes sense in light of an eternal perspective.

- Divine goodness shows how to conquer not in spite of, but even through suffering.

Here is a book written with great respect for the complexity of the issue, recognizing that some who read it will be in the trenches of deep suffering themselves and others in a faith crisis about the very existence of a loving God. WHY SUFFERING? provides an answer to the problem of pain and suffering with emotional sensitivity and intellectual integrity.