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Welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Thursday, September the 22nd, 2022.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating

today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison. This story is heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time.

A Canadian family is on a world tour so their three children with retinitis pigmentosa

can build their visual memories before they lose their eyesight.

So far, they have seen elephants, zebras, and giraffes in Namibia before moving on to Zambia,

Tanzania, Turkey, Mongolia, and Indonesia. Their mother explains, there are beautiful places everywhere in the world,

so it doesn't really matter where we go. When good things happen to good people, we tend to

credit the good people with little thought for the God from whom every good and perfect gift comes,

according to James 117. However, when bad things happen to good people, we tend to blame God, even though we know from James 113, that he cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.

If Christians must account for evil in a world, we claim was made by a loving creator, skeptics must account for evil in a world we claim was made by a loving creator,

skeptics must account for good in a world they claim was produced by chaotic chance.

I cannot help them with their problem, but I can offer three thoughts for ours.

First, from Romans 822, we know that God allows some suffering as a

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