Ten Reasons to Believe in a God Who Allows Suffering
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Lesson OneSuffering Comes With The Freedom To Choose5 Activities|1 Assessment
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Lesson TwoSuffering Reveals What Is In Our Hearts5 Activities|1 Assessment
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Lesson ThreeSuffering Takes Us To The Edge Of Eternity5 Activities|1 Assessment
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Lesson FourGod Can Turn Suffering Around For Our Good5 Activities|1 Assessment
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Lesson FivePain Can Warn Us Of Danger5 Activities|1 Assessment
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Lesson SixIn Times Of Crisis We Find One Another5 Activities|1 Assessment
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Lesson SevenSuffering Gives Opportunity To Trust God5 Activities|1 Assessment
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Lesson EightPain Loosens Our Grip On This Life5 Activities|1 Assessment
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Lesson NineGod Suffers With Us In Our Suffering5 Activities|1 Assessment
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Lesson TenGod's Comfort Is Greater Than Our Suffering5 Activities|1 Assessment
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Course Wrap-UpCourse Completion1 Activity|1 Assessment
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Further Study
Digging In
Read: Genesis 2:15-17 and Genesis 3:1-19.
In Genesis 2:15-17, God gave man three things: privilege, responsibility, and boundaries. How does this passage define each of these things?
In Genesis 3:1-8, how did the serpent, and then Eve, distort the commands of God found in Genesis 2:15-17?
The consequences of Adam and Eve’s choices are found in Genesis 3:9-19. How do we begin to see the connection between human choice and human suffering in those consequences?
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Going Further
Consider ways in which you have experienced a measure of suffering due to choices in the past. What would you do differently? The same? Why?
Develop a strategy for making choices and decisions that seeks to incorporate the long view. How can you continually ask, “What are the long-term implications of this decision?”
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Final Thoughts
Related scripture passages to study:
Psalm 40:11
Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O Lord; Let Your lovingkindness and Your truth continually preserve me.
Psalm 91:14
Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name.
John 17:14
I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
What choices do you face today that may affect your life, your work, your family, your friendships?
Read the Answers To Tough Questions article Why would God allow bad things to happen to “good” people?, from Questions.org.
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