America Magazine: Podcast: Why does God allow suffering? And why are our attempts to figure it out inadequate?
Why does an all loving God allow evil and suffering in the world? The theodicy isn’t just a problem for popes and theologians—at some point in any believers life it’s a question that seizes and stops ...
Podcast: Why does God allow suffering? And why are our attempts to figure it out inadequate?
If there is a God, why does He or She allow suffering? Good question! It is one with which all believers wrestle, and the short answer is that I do not know, at least not fully. The question is based ...
Q. I cannot understand why God allows so much suffering in the world. A loving father wouldn't allow his children to suffer. Yet God does nothing to help His children. One needs only to consider the ...
One of the strongest objections to believe in the Judeo-Christian God has to do with the amount and types of suffering and evil that exist in our world. Philosophers and theologians refer to this as ...
National Catholic Register: If God Is Love, Why Does He Let Terrible Things Happen?
One of the great mysteries to believers and nonbelievers is that of evil and suffering. If there is a God who is omnipotent and omniscient, how can he tolerate evil, injustice and the suffering of the ...
One of the most difficult issues faithful people have to wrestle with is: If our supposedly loving God can create the universe, then why does he not prevent the most horrific of evil human acts? The ...