The Bible Study Podcast, episode 40. Today the Bible Study podcast continues with the theme of

why do bad things happen to good people? And today the question is, where is God?

Welcome to the Bible study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

This is part seven of a series on Why Bad Things Happen to Good People in a series that I now believe is going to be an eight-part series.

In this particular episode, we're going to look at where God is when there is suffering.

The first set of verses I want to

look at is a story of Jesus healing a man born blind, and this is coming from the gospel of John

9. As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him,

Rabbi, who sinned this man or his parents, that he was born blind?' "'Neither this man nor his parents sinned,' said Jesus, "'but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life. "'As long as it is day we must do the work of him who sent me. "'Night is coming when no one can work. "'While I am in the world, I am the light of the world. Having said this,

he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it in the man's eyes. Go, he said to

him, wash in the pool of Siloam. This word means scent. So the man went and washed and came

home seeing. His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked,

Isn't this the same man he used to sit and beg? Some claimed he was. Others said,

"'No, he only looks like him. But he himself insisted, I am the man.'

"'How then were your eyes open?' they demanded. He replied,

"'The man called Jesus, made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash, so I went and washed, and then I could see. Where is this man? They asked him, I don't know, he said. And I'm going to skip over some verses about the Pharisees investigating, and the Pharisees don't believe the whole miracle thing, and go to these verses. Jesus heard that the man had been thrown out of the synagogue,

and went and found him, and he said, do you believe in the son of man? Who is he, sir?

The man said, tell me that I may believe in him. Jesus said, you have now seen him. In fact,

he is the one speaking with you. Then the man said, Lord, I believe, and he worshipped him.

Jesus said, for judgment,

I have come into this world so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.

I wanted to use this particular passage because both of some of the specific content in it, but also some of the general context.

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