{"product_id":"if-god-is-good-faith-in-the-midst-of-suffering-and-evil-1","title":"If God Is Good","description":"\u003cp\u003eSuffering 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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?\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eAtheists 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eAlcorn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\nThe crossover fiction and nonfiction author of the half-million-selling Heaven throws down a heavy response to a spate of recent bestselling atheism books. Because the main argument of atheists against the existence of God is suffering in the world, Alcorn lays out a weighty and classically reasoned argument to the problem of suffering in this thoroughly modern book. His biggest trump card is that atheists were hardly the first to ask about suffering and evil. Ancient writers did, and the fact that the Bible raises the problem of evil gives us full permission to do so. Evil and suffering are addressed in tandem but approached differently. Evil comes from human rebellion or sin, and suffering is a secondary evil brought on by that primary evil. By granting free will to humanity, God allows for an eternal good that humans don't always see now but will experience in the life to come if faithful. Not academic but well-reasoned, Alcorn may not convince atheists, but apart from them readership is wide open. (Sept.) \u003cbr\u003e\nCopyright ' Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eReview\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Randy Alcorn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42086405931220,"sku":"9781601425799","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9351\/9316\/files\/9781601425799.jpg?v=1776225631","url":"https:\/\/etcevents.co.uk\/products\/if-god-is-good-faith-in-the-midst-of-suffering-and-evil-1","provider":"ETCEvents","version":"1.0","type":"link"}