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In such difficult times, suffering and evil beg questions about God--Why would an all-good and all-powerful God create a world full of evil and suffering? And then, how can there be a God if suffering and evil exist?
These are ancient questions, but also modern ones as well. Atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and even former believers like Bart Ehrman answer the question simply: The existence of suffering and evil proves there is no God.
In this captivating new book, best-selling author Randy Alcorn challenges the logic of disbelief, and brings a fresh, realistic, 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 equips you to share your faith more clearly and genuinely in this world of pain and fear.
"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."
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If God Is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil Randy Alcorn. Multnomah, $24.99 (528p) ISBN 978-1-60142-132-6
The 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.)
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About the Author
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.
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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. It’s one thing to talk about evil and suffering philosophically; it’s 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. “I’ve talked about Heaven my whole life,” Laurie said, “and I’ve given many messages on life after death. I’ve 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, it’s 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 doesn’t 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, we’ll see the problem of evil and suffering even when it doesn’t 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 hadn’t fathered the baby, the couple placed the infant for adoption. Since then, they’ve 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 aren’t now facing it, look around and you’ll 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 God’s 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, it’s supposed to silence believers and prove that the all-good and all-powerful God of the Bible doesn’t exist.
The problem of evil is atheism’s cornerstone.
German playwright Georg Büchner (1813—37) called the problem of evil “the rock of atheism.” Atheists point to the problem of evil as proof that the God of the Bible doesn’t exist. Every day the ancient argument gets raised in college philosophy classes, coffee shops, dinner discussions, e-mail exchanges, blogs, talk
shows, and best-selling books.
Atheists write page after page about evil and suffering. The problem of evil never strays far from their view; it intrudes upon chapters with vastly different subjects. It’s one of the central reasons Sam Harris writes, “Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious.”
8 Harris then scolds Christians, saying about intelligent people (such as himself ), “We stand dumbstruck by you–by your denial of tangible reality, by the suffering you create in service to your religious myths, and by your attachment to an imaginary God.”9 (At least we know what he’s thinking!)
Many suppose that scientific evidence is the cornerstone of atheism. But the famous one-time champion of atheism, Britain’s Anthony Flew, renounced his atheism due to the complexity of the universe and his belief in the overwhelming evidence for intelligent design. After examining Richard Dawkins’s reasoning in The God Delusion–that the origin of life can be attributed to a “lucky chance”– Flew said, “If that’s the best argument you have, then the game is over.” However, although he abandoned his atheism, Flew did not convert to the Christian faith, but to deism. Why? Flew could not get past the problem of evil. He believes that God must have created the universe, then abandoned it.
A faith that leaves us unprepared for suffering is a false faith that
deserves to be lost.
A lot of bad theology inevitably surfaces when we face suffering. John Piper writes, “Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.”10
Auschwitz survivor Viktor Frankl wrote, “Just as the small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it, likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicaments and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.”11 When people lose their faith because of suffering, it’s usually a weak or nominal faith
that doesn’t account for or prepare them for evil and suffering. I believe that any faith not based on the truth needs to be lost. The sooner, the better.
Believing God exists is not the same as trusting the God who exists. A nominal Christian often discovers in suffering that his faith has been in his church, denomination, or family tradition, but not Christ. As he faces evil and suffering, he may lose his faith. But that’s actually a good thing. I have sympathy for people who lose their faith, but any faith lost in suffering wasn’t a faith worth keeping. (Genuine faith will be tested; false faith will be lost.)
If you base your faith on lack of affliction, your faith lives on the brink of extinction and will fall apart because of a frightening diagnosis or a shattering phone call. Token faith will not survive suffering, nor should it.
Suffering and evil exert a force that either pushes us away from God or pulls us toward him. I know a man who lost his faith after facing terrible evil, suffering, and injustice. My heart breaks for him, and I pray that my family and I will never suffer what he did. But if personal suffering gives sufficient evidence that God doesn’t exist, then surely I shouldn’t wait until I suffer to conclude he’s a myth. If my suffering would one day justify denying God, then I should deny him now in light of other people’s suffering.
The devastation of tragedy feels just as real for people whose faith endures suffering.But because they know that others have suffered and learned to trust God anyway, they can apply that trust to God as they face their own disasters. Because they do not place their hope for health and abundance and secure relationships in this life, but in an eternal life to come, their hope remains firm regardless of what happens.
Losing your faith may be God’s gift to you. Only when you jettison ungrounded and untrue faith can you replace it with valid faith in the true God–faith that can pass, and even find strength in, the most formidable of life’s tests.
In her moving book The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion writes about the sudden, unexpected death of her husband. As I read, my heart broke not only for what happened to her, but for the first six words of the book’s concluding sentence: “No eye is on the sparrow.”12
Didion apparently means that so far as she can tell, there is no God, or at least, no God who cares and watches over us. She’s most likely a normal hurting person who needs men and women around her who can see God in the midst of their suffering, so they might help her see him in hers.
Suffering will come; we owe it to God, ourselves, and those around us
to prepare for it.
Live long enough and you will suffer. In this life, the only way to avoid suffering is to die.
Bethany Hamilton grew up surfing on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. At age five she chose to follow Jesus. When she was thirteen, a fourteen-foot tiger shark attacked her, severing one of her arms. Bethany returned to surfing one month later. A year later, despite her disability, she won her first national title.
Bethany says, “It was Jesus Christ who gave me peace when I got attacked by the shark.… And it was what God had taught me growing up that helped me overcome my fears…to get back into the water to keep surfing.”
She continues, “My mom and I were praying before the shark attack that God would use me. Well, to me, 1 Timothy 1:12 kind of tells me that God considered me faithful enough to appoint me to his service. I just want to say that no matter who you are, God can use you even if you think you’re not the kind of person that can be used. You might think: why would God use me? That’s what I thought.… I was like thirteen and there God goes using me!”13
Bethany and her parents had given careful thought to the God they served and his sovereign purposes. Obviously not every tragedy leads to winning a national title, but Bethany began where all of us can, by trusting God; in her case, with a support system of people having an eternal perspective. Hence, she was prepared to face suffering when it came, and to emerge stronger.
Unfortunately, most evangelical churches–whether traditional, liturgical, or emergent–have failed to teach people to think biblically about the realities of evil and suffering. A pastor’s daughter told me, “I was never taught the Christian life was going to be difficult. I’ve discovered it is, and I wasn’t ready.”
A young woman battling cancer wrote me, “I was surprised that when it happened, it was hard and it hurt and I was sad and I couldn’t find anything good or redeeming about my losses. I never expected that a Christian who had access to God could feel so empty and alone.”
Our failure to teach a biblical theology of suffering leaves Christians unprepared for harsh realities. It also leaves our children vulnerable to history, philosophy, and global studies classes that raise the problems of evil and suffering while denying the Christian worldview. Since the question will be raised, shouldn’t Christian parents and churches raise it first and take people to Scripture to see what God says about it?
Most of us don’t give focused thought to evil and suffering until we experience them. This forces us to formulate perspective on the fly, at a time when our thinking is muddled and we’re exhausted and consumed by pressing issues. Readers who have “been there” will attest that it’s far better to think through suffering in advance.
Sometimes sufferers reach out for answers to those woefully unprepared. A physician’s assistant friend of ours wrote,
When I was admitted to the hospital in sepsis with a 50/50 chance of survival, I asked the chaplain how we could believe that God is love, when this felt like the antithesis of love. I said I wouldn’t inflict this much suffering
on someone I hated, let alone someone I loved. She told me she would “look it up,” then left my room and never came back. I posed the same question to the social worker who came to visit me a few days later. She
told me that God’s like a giant and we’re like little ants, and sometimes He accidentally steps on our ant hills and some of us get hurt. She said our suffering is random and God’s probably not even aware of it.
Pastor James Montgomery Boice had a clearer perspective. In May 2000, he stood before his Philadelphia church and explained that he’d been diagnosed with liver cancer:
Should you pray for a miracle? Well, you’re free to do that, of course. My general impression is that the God who is able to do miracles–and He certainly can–is also able to keep you from getting the problem in the
first place. So although miracles do happen, they’re rare by definition.…Above all, I would say pray for the glory of God. If you think of God glorifying Himself in history and you say, where in all of history has God most glorified Himself? He did it at the cross of Jesus Christ, and it wasn’t by delivering Jesus from the cross, though He could have.…God is in charge. When things like this come into our lives, they are not accidental. It’s not as if God somehow forgot what was going on, and something bad slipped by.… God is not only the one who is in charge; God is also good. Everything He does is good.… If God does something in your life, would you change it? If you’d change it, you’d make it worse. It wouldn’t be as good.14
Eight weeks later, having taught his people first how to live and then how to die, Pastor Boice departed this world to “be with Christ, which is better by far” (Philippians 1:23).
On the other side of death, the Bible promises that all who know him will fall into the open arms of a holy, loving, and gracious God–the greatest miracle, the answer to the problem of evil and suffering. He promises us an eternal kingdom on the New Earth, where he says of those who come to trust him in this present world of evil and suffering, “They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain” (Revelation 21:3—4).
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RANDY ALCORN is an author and the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries (EPM), a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching principles of God's Word and assisting the church in ministering to unreached, unfed, unborn, uneducated, unreconciled, and unsupported people around the world. His ministry focus is communicating the strategic importance of using our earthly time, money, possessions, and opportunities to invest in need-meeting ministries that count for eternity. He accomplishes this by analyzing, teaching, and applying biblical truth. Before starting EPM in 1990, Randy served as a pastor for fourteen years. He has a bachelor of theology and a master of arts in biblical studies from Multnomah University and an honorary doctorate from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon, and has taught on the adjunct faculties of both.
A New York Times bestselling author, Randy has written more than sixty books, including Heaven, The Treasure Principle, and the award-winning novel Safely Home. His books have been translated into over seventy languages and have sold over twelve million copies. Randy has written for many magazines, including EPM's Eternal Perspectives. He is active on Facebook and Twitter and has been a guest on more than seven hundred radio, television, and online programs.
Randy resides in Gresham, Oregon. He and his wife Nanci (who is now with Jesus) have two married daughters and five grandsons. Randy enjoys hanging out with his family, biking, underwater photography, research, listening to audiobooks, and reading.
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If God is Good traces evil back to the very beginning, from the moment that Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:6), and beforehand as well, when God's beloved archangel Lucifer became Satan, the thief who "comes only to steal and kill and destroy" (John 10:10). The most beautiful section of If God is Good is Section Five, Evil and Suffering in the Great Drama of Christ's Redemptive Work, which reminds us of the beautiful truth of Romans 5:18 (NLT): "Yes, Adam's one sin brings condemnation for everyone, but Christ's one act of righteousness brings a right relationship with God and new life for everyone." Add to that the beautiful part of John 10:10, "My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life!" (Exclamation point; emphasis mine)
Of course, that doesn't change Jesus' promise in John 16:33--that we ***will*** have trouble. Back in late 2009, I discovered what is known as the "health and wealth gospel" and, a year later, came to a near fatal point when I became mentally ill (God rescuing me through hospitalization). While I came out of the hospital far better than I was before, at times, when tragedy strikes, I fiercely doubted God. Thanks to Randy Alcorn's faithful service to our Heavenly Father, I have now found the cure for that doubt. Quoted, from page 381 of If God is Good:
"A woman who had based her life on the health and wealth worldview lay dying of cancer. She looked into a camera during an interview and said, "I've lost my faith." She felt bitter that God had "broken his promises." She correctly realized that the god she'd followed does not exist. She incorrectly concluded that the God of the Bible had let her down. He hadn't; her church and its preachers had done that. God had never made the promises that she thought he'd broken."
Yes, If God is Good miraculously reveals how the health and wealth gospel--which makes us feel great when we first hear it--ultimately "perverts our view of evil and suffering" (quoting Mr. Alcorn himself in the chapter for which he reveals this). There are many more astounding truths presented throughout the official 494 pages of If God is Good (not counting acknowledgements and indexes), such as 1) God has never put us through something he hasn't put himself through (pg. 214), and has made it that no one has suffered more than he (pg. 215); 2) The glorious, warm, and comforting truth that Christians have the assurance of one day living in a place where mourning, death, crying, and pain are obsolete (Revelation 21:4) and, among others; testimonies of people who have seen the worst offenses known to mankind--losing family members to murderers and car crashes, battling deadly diseases, etc.-who, in spite of all they suffered, managed to praise God with amazing, pure faith, teaching that one really can have joy from their trials (see James 1; verse 2 in particular). To quote my Lord and Savior himself, "I tell you the truth, I haven't seen faith like this in all Israel!" (Matthew 8:10 NLT, Luke 7:9)
I know some people may object to the title of If God is Good--and that's understandable. We, as Christians, know that God is good, and those who don't are "without excuse" (Romans 1:20). Each man and woman must ultimately judge the title of If God is Good for themselves, and speaking from my perspective, as someone who picked up If God is Good with great doubts in my faith; I tell you that it's written to those who ***are*** doubting God, and have turned to help through the pages of If God is Good. The material itself, in my opinion, far outweighs the title, and Randy Alcorn does a powerful job rebuking those who blaspheme God's name for the evil in this world. Alcorn even reveals personally to us that, believe it or not, ***God has already restrained 99% of evil from this world!!!*** (see Chapter 33, Understanding that God is God and We Are Not, pg. 355)
At the very end of the day, Randy Alcorn has written a book not only soothing and comforting, but also full of hope. Do not get me wrong: When Bad Things Happen to Good People (frequently mentioned throughout the pages of If God is Good) was one of the best books I've ever read on a level of empathy and, with it, comfort. But after reading that I still yearned for answers about where God is in suffering, because scripture repeatedly contradicts Rabbi Harold S. Kushner's conclusion that God is finite and, therefore, limited in what he can do. Now that I've found If God is Good, I'm deeply satisfied, and I cannot wait to read the follow-up to If God is Good: The Goodness of God, written by Randy Alcorn to help Christians (and those seeking to become Christians) find purpose in their suffering.
Thank you, Lord God Almighty, for giving the world a Christian as smart and caring as Randy Alcorn, and for speaking through Mr. Alcorn in the pages of If God is Good.
That being said, there are areas that are weaker than others, as he covers a huge range of questions and issues, from sin, to sickness, to Hell, and even to natural issues. This is usually the case with a book as broad as this one, so that is not a fault specific to Alcorn in any way. Overall, Alcorn does a good job of explaining how God can bring good out of suffering.
In my opinion, Alcorn is strongest when showing how people can be blessed as a result of suffering, whether theirs or someone else's. This really shines through when he deals with suffering in the name of Christianity, such as persecution or martyrdom. It gets weakest, however, when he tries to equate sickness with the suffering God promises Christians will endure.
I am not convinced that sickness was part of the suffering Christians were called to endure. In context, it always seems to be suffering in the name of Christ; that is, some form of persecution. Some people point to Paul's thorn in the flesh, but I think the arguments for the thorn being a person who persecuted Paul are stronger than those that see the thorn as an illness. Another way Alcorn tries to explain sickness as being something Christians are to endure with patience was when he referenced the man born blind in John's gospel, I think. The text says that he was born blind that the glory of God may be displayed. The end result, however, was that the man was thoroughly healed in this life, not that he glorified God in his blindness for his whole life. As a matter of fact, except for a few references where sickness is mentioned (Timothy drinking wine for his stomach and Epahproditis, I believe), we do not see anything I can think of in the way of seeing sickness as a blessing on a Christian in the New Testament. Granted, Alcorn never comes right out and calls sickness a blessing, but the mentions of God's frequently using sickness to bless people in some way seems to come close. A good view that explains the Bible's view of sickness is "Israel's Divine Healer" by Michael Brown (http://www.amazon.com/Israels-Divine-Healer-Michael-Brown/dp/0310200296/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1404439736&sr=1-1&keywords=israel%27s+divine+healer).
All of that being said, Christians do get sick and die from illnesses, so we have to find a way to explain why this occurs, which Alcorn's book does better than Brown's, in my opinion.
Really, the "weakness" I discussed above is not any fault of Alcorn's, so I did not subtract any stars from my rating. The "weakness" comes because he is attempting to address issues that are so deep and complicated that we will never fully understand them, I don't think, unless we get more answers in Heaven. All books on this issue will have moments that are weaker as they try to delve into the mystery of suffering and evil in God's world.
If you or someone you know is trying to understand a biblical view of evil and suffering, this book should be required reading.
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Randy Alcorn does not avoid any difficult question!
I am always recommending to everyone.