The Christian Answer

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"Why does God allow suffering?" This sincere question arises from personal and painful experiences in life. The atheist often uses this to conclude that because of an imperfect world there cannot be a perfect God. But is there another answer? The literature below may help in thinking these important and very personal issues through. Please contact us and we will send one of them to you. Read the booklet 'Why? Christian help for aching hearts' is a leaflet for those who, because of grief or regret, consider shutting God out of their lives.
The powerful story of Georgie as she struggled with cancer may also be viewed here.

Roger Carswell has produced this online booklet worth considering as you think through the issues surrounding the trouble in the world. Here is how the booklet begins.

“Something is wrong with our world. We know too much of wars, earthquakes, and famine. The world has shed too much blood, and so many tears. There has been more than enough abuse, injustice, loneliness, selfishness and despair... God’s message to humanity, the Bible, tells us that He is all powerful and altogether loving, so we ask why does He not intervene?

Let’s ask some questions, and try and find some answers?” To read on click here.

How can God allow suffering? A booklet summarising the perplexing problem of suffering, which atheists often use to justify their beliefs. But what does the Bible say about this most personal and painful issues? Ask for the complete booklet here.

How can I face terminal illness with peace? A booklet sympathetically written for those facing the most challenging final illness. Ask for the complete booklet here.An extract can be viewed here.

DEALING with DISASTER is an online presentation considering the problem of suffering in a world created by God. Is there a reason? Can we begin to make sense of it all?

WHYme?

This is a book you can ask us to send you containing 8 stories of people who have passed through painful circumstances. From disabled and dying children to murdered spouses these true stories paint the painful and realistic impact of suffering.
Instead of writing a defence of God, Roger Carswell hand-picked 8 individuals who tell of the help and goodness of God in their troubled lives. They describe how God used their troubled circumstances to bring about good and how they have a deeper relationship with the Lord as a result of what they went through.
This is a helpful book. As it ends it reflects on how the Christian is someone who has God to thank when everything is going well, but they also have a God to cry out to when everything is going wrong. He is a God who will always listen and never abandons us, the God who said, "Surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28:20; and whose earliest followers tell us we can "Cast all our anxiety on him because he cares..." 1 Peter 5:7