If God is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil by Randy Alcorn
Those who have experienced suffering often ask the question how can there be a God if suffering and evil exist? The atheist answers this question by simply claiming that the presence of suffering and evil in this world proves that there is no God. This is one of the controversies this book attempts to address.
Randy Alcorn provides a detailed and systematic analysis of suffering giving us a keen biblical understand of the subject. He examines the problem of evil and suffering helping us to understand the origin, nature and consequences of evil. He examines the issue of divine sovereignty and human choice. He talks about why God allows evil and suffering, how God restrains evil and suffering and how to live with suffering.
The book is not just a systematic theological treatment of the subject. Alcorn fills the book with insights and individual stories from the lives of people. People whose lives have been torn apart by suffering and have survived it with a refined faith.
