The Suffering of Job — Why do difficult things happen to faithful people?

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by Cyril Guerette

The Book of Job wrestles with the question of why the righteous suffer.

  • People naturally ask: How can there be a good God with so much evil happening every day to people?
  • The book of Job goes some way to addressing this question.
  • Also, God does not have a merely abstract concept of suffering and pain.
  • He’s the God who became human and was slain!

 

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