![]() ![]() It’s evident that the subject matter is hardly easy. He shakes the dust off the tomes of education and winds them into a conversation with examples and direct addresses. Lewis has the odd magic of writing on a level that doesn’t feel scholarly, yet is unmistakable theological and complicated. ![]() Lewis answer them with in-depth yet conversational theological precision in The Problem of Pain, admitting his viewpoint as an imperfect human which just proves to bolster those convictions that he presents to his audience. If God allows all these contradictions to exist, is it a place we really want to go? These are the big issues that haunt Christianity and most questions concerning God and salvation prove to have origination in these very basic queries. ![]() Why do bad things happen to good people? If God is so loving, so good, why does he allow us to suffer? He created this world and everything within it – doesn’t it necessarily follow then that he created evil? Is God truly good? Is he just neutral? Why would a being supposedly composed of all compassion and goodness create Hell – an everlasting place of torture? Does anyone really deserve to go to Hell? Does the worm really never die there is it all flames an punishment? And what of Heaven? If God is all knowing, why create man when his fall was inevitable? Why create the angel that would eventually fall and become Satan, man’s first tempter. The Age Old Question: Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People ![]()
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