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Book

God forsaken

Call Number

  • 231.8 D811 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Carol Stream, Illinois : Tyndale House Publishers, c2012.

Physical Description

274 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

Examines the issue of human suffering and explores why a good God would allow it.

Contents

  • An immigrant's journey : the paradox of suffering
  • Wounded theism : the indictment of god
  • The limits of theodicy : why the usual answers don't work
  • Atheist delusions : contradictions of unbelief
  • Free to choose : omnipotence and human freedom
  • Choices and consequences : why a lawful universe
  • Acts of God : the reason for earthquakes
  • Red in tooth and claw : evolution and animal pain
  • A fine-tuned universe : the anthropic principle
  • Create or not : does God hate amputees?
  • Rage of Yahweh : crimes of the Old Testament God
  • Abandon all hope : heaven, hell, and divine justice
  • Not forsaken : delivering us from evil.

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