Why Suffering?
Finding Meaning and Comfort When Life Doesn't Make Sense
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Narrated by:
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Ravi Zacharias
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Vince Vitale
About this listen
Why would a loving and powerful God allow so much pain and suffering? In Why Suffering? Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale carefully walk you through a variety of responses that considered together provide a clear, comprehensive, and convincing answer. Responses like:
- Where there is the possibility of love, there has to be the reality of freedom, and therefore the possibility of pain.
- Wishing God had made a different world is to wish yourself out of existence.
- The cross is the key to a compelling and rational explanation for trusting in God in the face of suffering.
- In comparison with other world religions, the Christian response is highly distinctive.
- The reality of evil only makes sense in light of the reality of divine goodness.
- Relational knowledge about God takes the argument beyond reason to the presence of God amidst suffering.
- God's decision to allow temporal suffering is understandable when viewed from an eternal perspective.
- Divine goodness shows how to conquer not in spite of, but even through suffering.
Here is a book written with great respect for the complexity of the issue, recognizing that some who read it will be in the trenches of deep suffering themselves and others questioning the very existence of a loving God. Why Suffering? provides an answer to the problem of pain and suffering with emotional sensitivity and intellectual integrity.
©2014 Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale (P)2014 Hachette AudioWhat listeners say about Why Suffering?
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- Shanelle Shaw
- 07-05-2020
Why Suffering? Review
The subject of human suffering is not an easy topic to approach. This book gives meaningful and thoughtful answers, that are deeply and personally stirring. The gift of Jesus amidst a pain filled world is great love, and Ravi and Vince reason this very well.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 17-05-2017
Vince Vitale's testimony
I loved the way Vince brought his personal testimony into everything it made me relate and I was able to relax and think about this complex question the book unpacks.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Jen
- 23-04-2021
Philosophical and Personal
This book is philosophical and personal because suffering needs reasonable answers but is also very personal.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- CSW
- 28-11-2016
The Gospel according to Zacharias & Vitale ??
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
Book is read well, can listen easily.
What could Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Why does not Zacharias and Vitale refer back to the Bible to find the answer to the question ??They refer to their own life experiences and sayings of other people AND DO NOT REFER TO THE WORD OF GOD to come up with any explanation to the question at hand.In my opinion, this is a very poor approach. It was very difficult to hear page after page a very NON biblical thesis of the topic based on their experiences.
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Need to refer to the bible when we need to seek answers for such questions.But for these 2 authors, they saw fit that they refer to their own life experiences and what other people have stated AND NOT WHAT GOD has stated about suffering in the bible. How can their explanations be seen as authentic when they do not seek what God says about the topic ??
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