WHY GOD ALLOWS EVIL: Understanding Suffering, Sin, and the Ultimate Triumph of Good - Softcover

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Why God Allows Evil

If God is good, why is there evil? If God is all-powerful, why does He allow suffering?

These questions have troubled philosophers, theologians, skeptics, and believers for centuries. The reality of war, disease, injustice, tragedy, and death seems to present one of the strongest challenges to belief in a good and sovereign God.

Why God Allows Evil confronts this difficult question from both philosophical and biblical perspectives.

Norman Mathers, Ph.D., traces the great debate over evil through influential thinkers including Epicurus, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Leibniz, David Hume, J. L. Mackie, Alvin Plantinga, and John Hick. Their arguments reveal why the problem of evil remains one of the central questions in the philosophy of religion.

The investigation then moves beyond philosophy to the biblical explanation of creation, human freedom, sin, suffering, divine sovereignty, judgment, redemption, and the final defeat of evil.

Why did God permit evil to enter His creation? Is human freedom part of the answer? Why do innocent people suffer? Does evil disprove the existence of God? Why does God not eliminate evil now? And will suffering ever finally end?

Rather than avoiding these difficult questions, Why God Allows Evil faces them directly.

The existence of evil is not the end of the story. Scripture presents history moving toward a decisive conclusion in which evil is judged, suffering ends, justice prevails, and the purposes of God are ultimately fulfilled.

The question is not merely why evil exists—but what God intends to do about it.

A thought-provoking study for readers interested in Christian apologetics, philosophy of religion, theology, suffering, the existence of God, and the ultimate triumph of good over evil.

Norman W. Mathers, Ph.D. Pretoria, Th.M. Dallas Theological Seminary, M.A. California State University, Dominguez Hills, B.A. Wilfrid Laurier. Dr. Mathers is Associate Professor Liberty University Online, College of Arts and Science, Lynchburg, Virginia.

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