How can we best respond to the evil and suffering we experience in our lives?

How can we see God's work when the world seems so broken?

Our guest today, Ingrid Far Pharaoh, has written a new book called

Demystifying Evil in which she offers a biblical and personal exploration of

evil. I'm your host Sean McDowell. I'm your co-host Scott Ray and and this is Think

Bibically brought to you by Talbot School Theology Biola University.

Dr. Farrell, welcome to Think Bibically. Thank you. Good to be here.

So let's just jump right into your book.

Tell us a little bit about the motivation to write a book that has so many personal stories in it

in which you take a personal and a biblical exploration of evil.

This book is a culmination of both my life, my own struggles, as well as my biblical studies.

I started studying theology because I had come to a place where I did not know if God was good. I didn't know if I should even believe in

him. The only reason I believed in him was I knew I had encountered him as a young

Christian. I didn't know if I could trust him, didn't think he loved me, didn't know if he was just, in other words, I just was questioning everything.

And, but I did have a sense that I needed to get answers and I sense God was telling me to get them

for myself from scripture and for me to get it from the Greek and the Hebrew.

So I studied, started studying theology because I had so many questions and the questions

continued to build up and life continued to get harder. I had experienced a lot of

abuse and trauma in my life and nothing to me

seemed to make sense. And so this book is the result of the wrestling that I had with God in scripture as well as my life so it is a reflection of both of those processes and the integration of the cognitive,

psychological, the study with just pure raw heart issues.

Okay, so you are already a Christian

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