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Why Must We Suffer?

“If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?” And what about the suffering of animals, who neither deserve pain nor can be improved by it? The greatest Christian thinker of our time sets out to disentangle these knotty issues.…

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1 author picked The Problem of Pain as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I read this book in a season when I was wrestling with that pesky old question, “Where is God when I am suffering?” It challenged me to think deeply about why a loving God allows pain.

Wrestling alongside Lewis helped me feel less alone in my own questions. 

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