If God is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil by Randy Alcorn (Englis

Description: If God is Good by Randy Alcorn Now with a new introduction from the author, If God Is Good by Randy Alcorn addresses the personal issues of difficult circumstances, tragic events, and the presence of evil that all people wrestle with in their daily lives. A great companion to his best-seller Heaven, If God Is Good travels well alongside the successful The Reason for God by Tim Keller and as a cogent opposition to the New Atheism books that populate the best-seller lists. If God Is Good explores what the Bible says about suffering and offers hope to readers in the form of Gods ultimate purpose and love.Suffering is, in the end, Gods 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 WeeklyEvery 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.It 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?Atheists 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.But 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.Alcorn 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 Gods sovereignty-how it ultimately triumphs over suffering and evil in our lives and the world around us. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Randy Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries and a best-selling author. His novels include Deadline, Dominion, Deception, Edge of Eternity, The Ishbane Conspiracy, and the Gold Medallion winner, Safely Home. He has written twenty-six nonfiction books as well, including Heaven, The Treasure Principle, The Purity Principle, and The Grace and Truth Paradox. Randy and his wife, Nanci, live in Oregon and have two married daughters and five grandsons. Review Excerpt from Book Why Is the Problem of Evil and Suffering So Important? The problem of evil and suffering moves from the philosophical to the personal in a moment of time. During my research I read all sorts of books-philosophical, theological, practical, and personal. Its one thing to talk about evil and suffering philosophically; its another to live with it. Philosophy professor Peter van Inwagen wrote, Angels may weep because the world is filled with suffering. A human being weeps because his daughter, she and not another, has died of leukemia this very night, or because her village, the only world she knows, is burning and the mutilated bodies of her husband and her son lie at her feet.1 Three weeks after his thirty-three-year-old son, Christopher, died in a car crash, pastor and evangelist Greg Laurie addressed a crowd of twenty-nine thousand at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California. "Ive talked about Heaven my whole life," Laurie said, "and Ive given many messages on life after death. Ive counseled many people who have lost a loved one, and I thought I knew a little bit about it. But I have to say that when it happens to you, its a whole new world." The day his son died, he told the crowd, was "the hardest day of my life."2 When I spoke with Greg ten months later, his faith was strong, but his profound sense of loss remained. Pain is always local. It has a face and a name. And sometimes, for now, it doesnt go away. The American response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, demonstrated that large-scale evil and suffering usually remain distant from us. In Sudan, millions, including children, have been murdered, raped, and enslaved. The 2004 Asian tsunami killed more than 280,000 people. Malaria causes more than two million fatalities annually, the majority of them African children. Around the world, some 26,500 children die every day; eighteen every minute. The loss of American lives in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, numbered 2,973-horrible indeed, yet a small fraction of the terror and loss of life faced daily around the world. The death toll in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, for example, amounted to more than two World Trade Center disasters every day for one hundred days straight. Americans discovered in one day what much of the world already knew-violent death comes quickly, hits hard, and can be unspeakably dreadful. If we open our eyes, well see the problem of evil and suffering even when it doesnt touch us directly. A friend of ours spoke at a Christian gathering. On her way back to her car, someone raped her. She became pregnant and gave birth to her first child. Because racial differences would have made it clear her husband hadnt fathered the baby, the couple placed the infant for adoption. Since then, theyve been unable to conceive another child. Her lifelong dream of raising children remains unfulfilled. I once had to tell a wife, son, and daughter that their husband and father had died on a hunting trip. I still remember the anguished face of the little girl, then hearing her wail, "Not Daddy, no, not Daddy!" Years ago I had to tell my mother that her only brother had been murdered with a meat cleaver. A Christian woman tipped over on her riding lawn mower and fell into a pond. The machine landed on top of her, pinning her to the bottom and drowning her. Such a bizarre death prompted some to ask, "Why, God?" and "Why like this?" After his wife died, in great pain C. S. Lewis realized, "If I had really cared, as I thought I did, about the sorrows of the world, I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came."3 Our own suffering is often our wake-up call. But even if you arent now facing it, look around and youll see many who are. Why Talk About the Problem? More people point to the problem of evil and suffering as their reason for not believing in God than any other-it is not merely a problem, it is the problem. A Barna poll asked, "If you could ask God only one question and you knew he would give you an answer, what would you ask?" The most common response was, "Why is there pain and suffering in the world?"4 John Stott says, The fact of suffering undoubtedly constitutes the single greatest challenge to the Christian faith, and has been in every generation. Its distribution and degree appear to be entirely random and therefore unfair. Sensitive spirits ask if it can possibly be reconciled with Gods justice and love.5 Richard Swinburne, writing in the Oxford Companion to Philosophy, says the problem of evil is "the most powerful objection to traditional theism." 6 Ronald Nash writes, "Objections to theism come and go.... But every philosopher I know believes that the most serious challenge to theism was, is, and will continue to be the problem of evil."7 You will not get far in a conversation with someone who rejects the Christian faith before the problem of evil is raised. Pulled out like the ultimate trump card, its supposed to silence believers and prove that the all-good and all-powerful God of the Bible doesnt exist. The problem of evil is atheisms cornerstone. German playwright Georg B Details ISBN1601425791 Author Randy Alcorn Short Title IF GOD IS GOOD Language English ISBN-10 1601425791 ISBN-13 9781601425799 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 231.8 Residence Gresham, OR, US Imprint Multnomah Press Subtitle Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil Place of Publication Sisters Country of Publication United States Year 2014 Publication Date 2014-06-17 UK Release Date 2014-06-17 AU Release Date 2014-06-17 NZ Release Date 2014-06-17 US Release Date 2014-06-17 Pages 528 Publisher Multnomah Press Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137642945;

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