LIVINGSTONE FELLOWSHIP
  • Home
  • Other Languages
    • Afrikaans Artikels
    • DEUTSCHE PRÄSENTATIONEN UND ARTIKEL
    • NEDERLANDSE VIDEOPRESENTATIES
    • DANSKE ARTIKLER OG PRÆSENTATIONER
    • ARTICLES ET PRÉSENTATIONS EN FRANÇAIS
    • РОССИЙСКИЕ СТАТЬИ И ПРЕЗЕНТАЦИИ
  • Articles
    • Christian Discipleship >
      • Answering Skeptics
      • Biblical Worldview
      • Character Assassins
      • Character Study
      • Christian Action
      • Discipleship
      • Evangelism
      • Pro-Family & Pro-Life
      • False Religions
      • God and Government
      • God's Creation
      • Reformation & Revival
    • Bible Teaching >
      • Bible Teaching
      • Old Testament Surveys
      • New Testament Survey
      • Bybel in 'n Neutedop
      • Bible in a Nutshell
  • Tracts
    • English Tracts
    • Afrikaans Tracts
    • French Tracts
    • German Tracts
    • Dutch Tracts
    • Xhosa Tracts
    • Chichewa Tracts
  • Digital Resources
    • Discipleship Training
    • Christian Liberty Books
    • Order of Service
    • Social Justice Questionaire
    • Questionnaire on Law & Eternity
    • Questionnaire on Christmas & Eternity
    • Booklets
    • Links
  • Sermon Series
    • Livingstone Sermons
    • Bible Survey
    • The Ten Commandments
    • Holiday Services
  • About Us
  • KSB Youth Conf 2024
    • CULTIVATING an ATTITUDE of GRATITUDE
  • Home
  • Other Languages
    • Afrikaans Artikels
    • DEUTSCHE PRÄSENTATIONEN UND ARTIKEL
    • NEDERLANDSE VIDEOPRESENTATIES
    • DANSKE ARTIKLER OG PRÆSENTATIONER
    • ARTICLES ET PRÉSENTATIONS EN FRANÇAIS
    • РОССИЙСКИЕ СТАТЬИ И ПРЕЗЕНТАЦИИ
  • Articles
    • Christian Discipleship >
      • Answering Skeptics
      • Biblical Worldview
      • Character Assassins
      • Character Study
      • Christian Action
      • Discipleship
      • Evangelism
      • Pro-Family & Pro-Life
      • False Religions
      • God and Government
      • God's Creation
      • Reformation & Revival
    • Bible Teaching >
      • Bible Teaching
      • Old Testament Surveys
      • New Testament Survey
      • Bybel in 'n Neutedop
      • Bible in a Nutshell
  • Tracts
    • English Tracts
    • Afrikaans Tracts
    • French Tracts
    • German Tracts
    • Dutch Tracts
    • Xhosa Tracts
    • Chichewa Tracts
  • Digital Resources
    • Discipleship Training
    • Christian Liberty Books
    • Order of Service
    • Social Justice Questionaire
    • Questionnaire on Law & Eternity
    • Questionnaire on Christmas & Eternity
    • Booklets
    • Links
  • Sermon Series
    • Livingstone Sermons
    • Bible Survey
    • The Ten Commandments
    • Holiday Services
  • About Us
  • KSB Youth Conf 2024
    • CULTIVATING an ATTITUDE of GRATITUDE
LIVINGSTONE FELLOWSHIP

Why Does God not Stop all the Suffering?

5/23/2011

0 Comments

 
Picture
“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to Repentance.”
2 Peter 3:9

Oscar Wilde claimed that suffering proved that a good God does not govern the world. If God cannot stop the suffering, then He is not all powerful. If God will not stop the suffering then He cannot be good and loving.

The faulty logic and wrong conclusion evidenced by Oscar Wilde is quite common. Many question God’s goodness, power, or even existence, because of suffering in the world. Poverty, disease, war, natural and man-made disasters – why does God not bring it all to an end?

​Zimbabwe
Even those who love God and do not doubt His Word, are often grieved and puzzled about why the Lord will not intervene, for example, to put an end to the tyrannical government in Zimbabwe which has caused so much havoc to the economy and widespread suffering amongst the Zimbabwean people, more than half of whom have fled the country.

What is the Cause?
So much of the world’s news media focuses on the effects of suffering, but seldom attempts to explore and explain the causes. What is the true meaning and purpose behind all of the world’s calamities and catastrophes?


Read More
0 Comments

    Answering Skeptics

    Picture

    ARTICLES

    All
    ALWAYS READY TO DEFEND THE FAITH
    BUT AREN'T ALL RELIGIONS THE SAME?
    CONFRONTING ATHEISTS
    HOW CAN A GOOD GOD ALLOW EVIL?
    HOW CAN A LOVING GOD CONDEMN ANYONE TO HELL?
    HOW CAN I KNOW THAT JESUS IS THE MESSIAH?
    HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT JESUS IS ALIVE?
    ISN'T RELIGION JUST A CRUTCH FOR THE WEAK?
    RESPONDING TO ATTACKS ON CHRISTMAS
    RISEN! - EVIDENCES FOR THE RESURRECTION
    STRENGTHENING THE HANDS OF EVILDOERS
    THE ILLEGAL TRIAL OF JESUS AND THE VERDICT OF HISTORY
    WHAT ABOUT HYPOCRITES IN THE CHURCH
    WHAT PROOF DO YOU HAVE THAT THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD?
    WHY DOES GOD NOT STOP ALL THE SUFFERING?
    WHY IS GOD HIDDEN?

    Archives

    April 2025
    June 2019
    September 2018
    August 2012
    May 2011
    April 2011
    January 2011
    November 2010
    September 2010
    August 2010
    July 2010
    June 2010
    August 2008

    RSS Feed

Home
About
Contact
“Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” 1 Peter 2:4-5