SCPC Podcast: Got Questions Talk 3, How Could a Good God Allow Suffering?
Steve Cree spoke to us from Romans 8:18-27. Suffering traces its source back to the fall – sin (God made creation with a driver’s seat for us to drive it his way… we chose our own adventure and the whole thing smashed). God didn’t have to do anything about it – other than wipe us out (judgment). But he sent his Son as the Suffering Servant to enter into the suffering/problem himself and to pay for our sin, to win a future without suffering.
Bible Reading: Romans 8:18-27
Outline:
1. is God to blame for the problem?
2. is God obliged to provide a solution?
3. has God actually provided a solution?
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Another good talk on a big question! The fact that Job wasn’t given an answer to the reason for his suffering is something I think I’m accepting more over time. I found reading the book you recommended Steve “Questioning Evangelism” really good in that it discusses this aspect of suffering in a bit of detail.
For me its how I respond in the suffering, if people knew what I had gone through in my life as a kid they would wonder how I could at all believe in God at all.
I can hang on to my suffering and let it turn me into a bitter person or I can give it to God and let Him grow me ,help me and teach me .
This doesn’t mean i don’t ask for any help from other people it actually makes me pursue others for help and it doesn’t mean I don’t feel the hurt and pain, it doesn’t mean my suffering goes away miraculously . But when I look back I see how God has and continues to heal me in my suffering how He carries me through the darkness back into the light.
To Him alone I give all the glory