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Why would God allow a person that we know to get cancer?

Why would God allow a child to be born with a

disability? Why would God allow a young man in the prime of his life to die in an automobile

accident? A barn of pole was taken and the question was asked, if you could ask God one question

and know that you would receive an answer,

what would you ask? And the most common response was, why is there pain and suffering in the

world? C.S. Lewis said, and I quote, the problem of pain is atheism's most potent weapon

against the Christian faith. Maybe there are some of you here tonight that are angry with God

because something bad has happened to you or to someone you loved and you just can't reconcile

it. Your parents divorced. A close loved one died unexpectedly. You were born with a disability

or someone else you know has been heard, and you say why.

The reason we ask that is because our human intellects and notions of fairness reject the

apparent contradiction between a God of love and a world of pain.

And the classic statement of the problem, either God is all powerful, but he is not all good,

therefore he doesn't stop evil, or God is all good but not all powerful, therefore he can't

stop evil. But the general tendency is to blame God for all the evil and suffering in the

world. Pass all responsibility to him. But know this,

as we look back at the tragedy of 9-11. God did not do that. Wicked people did that.

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