Understanding Suffering - The Christian Perspective
Pic Courtesy - Guardian - Internet Good news is hard to find these days, and the question “Where is God?” or “Where is God during such times of suffering?” keeps coming up in times like this. In this blog, I try to present the Christian perspective to suffering. I hope the post helps both believers and friends from other faith, understand suffering from the Christian perspective. Before we move on to the purpose of suffering, I would like to address a few critical questions. I shall be borrowing many of these thoughts from Ravi Zacharias and his talk on suffering. You can hear the talk on the link - Ravi Zacharias – Where is God in the Midst of Suffering and Injustice? The 1st question I want to address is Does suffering in this world mean God is absent? The important point to note here is we are defining something as good and something as bad, which means that there has to be a definition of good and bad somewhere, this means that there needs to be a legal frame...