Further Readings Why a Loving God Allows Suffering Many people believe that if God is truly the God of love and mercy He would be bound by His own character and principles to prevent suffering in the world. This brings up a good question. Why doesn't God intervene to prevent suffering?
A World Plagued With Human Suffering We live in a world of suffering. It falls on the just and the unjust, afflicting all of us at some time. Philosophers, thinkers and theologians have weighed in on the issue for years. We need answers to the problem of human suffering!
How Good Can Come From Suffering We will all suffer at some time. While it is never pleasant, both history and the Bible show that suffering can, in the end, produce good. Keeping this in mind can help us better learn to deal with suffering and accept it.
When Will Suffering Cease? God has a great purpose and plan that extends beyond this life. The world will finally see an end to suffering, but it won't come through human effort. Bible prophecy reveals how that wonderful future will finally come about!
Is God Indifferent to Human Suffering? If God is all-powerful, He could easily prevent disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, floods, droughts and volcanic eruptions. But He lets them happen. Why?
Bible Study Lesson: Why Does God Allow Suffering? How do we reconcile anguish and suffering with the Bible's portrayal of a loving God? Why would He allow the horrendous miseries that afflict humanity? Does the Bible explain suffering? Many people, the faithful and the faithless, look at calamities—whether personal, national or global—and agonize over these questions. In this Bible study lesson we will see how the Bible addresses this enigma: Why does God allow suffering?
God's Plan to End Evil and Suffering Is God blind to evil and human suffering? Why doesn’t He intervene to put a stop to it? Or could it be that it’s we who are blind to what God is doing and that humankind must learn some major lessons before He puts an end to evil?
Coming: An End to Suffering Why is the world awash in suffering? How did the world come to be in such sad shape? Most important, what will bring the end to human misery?
Goodness: God's Character and Man's Potential The spiritual fruit of goodness enables sinful man to do good and to be good—good in the truest sense of the word. Goodness, after all, is the essence of God's nature.
What Is Your Destiny? What is your destiny? Why do you exist? Is there a reason, a purpose, for human life? These questions have baffled the greatest thinkers and philosophers down through the ages.