Be ready always to give an answer — 1 Peter 3:15
Answers Index
A growing index of careful responses to the objections and questions people raise, with links to the sermons and articles behind it.
Suffering & Evil
Why a good and powerful God would permit pain, evil, and loss.
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How Can a Loving God Send People to Hell?
“Christians say God is love, yet they also say he will send people to a place of eternal punishment. A God who would do that to anyone, let alone forever, cannot really be loving. Either hell is not real or God is not good.”
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Why Does a Good God Allow Suffering?
“If God were both all-powerful and all-loving, he would stop the pain, disease, disasters, and cruelty in the world. Since he does not, either he cannot, or he does not care, or he is not there at all.”
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