num_pages: 212
description: Many people wrestle with questions of evil. Some appeal to mystery (Gods ways are not our ways). Others say God allows evil for some greater purpose. Still others say God punishes with evil. Not only are these answers unsatisfying they fail to support the view that God loves everyone all the time.God Can't solves the problem of evil. Author Thomas Jay Oord says Gods love is inherently uncontrolling. Because God cannot control anyone or anything God cannot prevent evil singlehandedly. This means God cant stop evildoers whether human animal organisms or inanimate objects and forces.God Can't gives a plausible reason why some are healed but many are not. God always works to heal everyone but sometimes our bodies organisms or other creatures do not cooperate with God's healing. Or the conditions of creation are simply not right for the healing God wants to do.Some people interpret suffering as Gods punishment. Or they think suffering is God's way of building our character. God Can't says God never punishes. But God squeezes good from the evil God didnt want in the first place. In other words God uses pain and suffering to build our character and other positive things without willing it.Most people think God can overcome evil singlehandedly. God Can't says God needs our cooperation for love to reign now and later. This leads to a unique view of the afterlife called relentless love. This view rejects traditional ideas of heaven hell and annihilation. It holds to the possibility that all creatures and all creation will eventually respond to Gods relentless love.Thomas Jay Oord wrote God Can't in accessible prose. Oord's status as a world-renown theologian brings credibility to the books radical ideas. He relates these ideas in bite-size understandable language with numerous illustrations stories and biblical support. The stories of victims and survivors illustrate the life-giving ideas of God Can't.God Can't is for those who want answers to tragedy abuse and other evils that make sense!
language: English
title: God Can't: How to Believe in God and Love after Tragedy, Abuse, and Other Evils
publisher: SacraSage Press