The questions readily rise to mind and on the surface seem reasonable: yet a candid look at them shows that they carry certain implications. They imply that suffering in human life is inconsistent either with the power or with the love of God: that as a God of love either He has not the power to prevent the suffering, or if He has the power then He has not the will, and is not a God of love. It is assumed that the prevention of suffering as it now affects the apparently innocent is something we should expect from a God of love who is also Almighty. Are these assumptions justified?
Calea Bakke on 28 May 15Remember that time Jesus told the story about the farmer ( Matthew 13 )? A farmer went out and threw seeds onto different types of soil. Some of the seeds were choked by thorns, others were eaten by birds and a few of the seeds grew and produced loads of fruit.
