Would a Good God Allow Suffering?

Engage with the debate about whether the suffering in the world shows that a loving God cannot exist. What can we say concerning natural evil such as tsunamis and earthquakes? Why doesn't God prevent people from doing evil things? Are there any possible reasons that such a God might allow suffering to continue?

Just born

The Biggest Question: 2. Possible Answers

Multiple Speakers

Part 2 of a video series examining why God allows suffering suggests possible answers that can be offered.

Angry

How could a loving God possibly allow so much suffering?

Andrew Wilson

Examining the problem of suffering first as an intellectual question and then as an emotional and visceral issue.

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What Kind of God Doesn't Prevent Suffering?

Michael Ots

Michael Ots asks three questions about suffering: 1. Why is there suffering? 2. What, if anything, has God done about it? 3. What will…

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Why Does God Allow Pain and Suffering?

Justin Thacker

Four part video series on the problem of suffering.

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The Tsunami: if God�s so good � why?

Dave Burke

2004 was a grim year; innocent tribes-people ruthlessly attacked in western Sudan; hundreds of children brutally murdered in Beslan; Iraq…

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The Biggest Question: 3. Personal Responses to Suffering

Multiple Speakers

Part 3 of a video series examining why God allows suffering describes some personal responses to suffering.

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The Biggest Question: 4. The Suffering of Children

Multiple Speakers

Part 4 of a video series examining why God allows suffering looks at "the hardest question", the suffering of children.