Overcoming Suffering: Suffering and Our Fallen Nature/Mortal Bodies
Suffering in our world brings so much grief. Suffering also frustrates the minds of people who are skeptics of the Christian faith. Why is there suffering? How could God still be good in the midst of such suffering?
These are valid questions and I have much empathy for those who ask these questions. But there are answers.
In addition to living in a fallen world, another reason why we suffer is because we live in fallen human bodies.
God told Adam and Eve that if they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they would surely die (Genesis 2:17).
As the story unfolds, tempted by God's…
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