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God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer (Larger Print)
God's Problem How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important QuestionWhy We Suffer - Larger Print
Author: Bart D. Ehrman
In times of questioning and despair, people often quote the Bible to provide answers. Surprisingly, though, the Bible does not have one answer but many "answers" that often contradict one another. Consider these competing explanations for suffering put forth by various biblical writers: —
  • The prophets: suffering is a punishment ...  more »
  • The book of Job, which offers two different answers: suffering is a test, and you will be rewarded later for passing it; and suffering is beyond comprehension, since we are just human beings and God, after all, is God
  • Ecclesiastes: suffering is the nature of things, so just accept it
  • All apocalyptic texts in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament: God will eventually make right all that is wrong with the world


For renowned Bible scholar Bart Ehrman, the question of why there is so much suffering in the world is more than a haunting thought. Ehrman's inability to reconcile the claims of faith with the facts of real life led the former pastor of the Princeton Baptist Church to reject Christianity.

In God's Problem, Ehrman discusses his personal anguish upon discovering the Bible's contradictory explanations for suffering and invites all people of faith - or no faith - to confront their deepest questions about how God engages the world and each of us.

~ ~~Larger Print is an easier to read format only; it does not meet industry standards for Large Print.~~~
ISBN-13: 9780061470356
ISBN-10: 006147035X
Publication Date: 2/19/2008
Pages: 448
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Book Type: Paperback
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