The three misguided friends were corrected and restored. I will never abandon you nor will I forsake you. The most important thing, though, is that she was home with Jesus. Okla. This question rests at the very heart of our belief in the Judeo-Christian God. Throughout the centuries we have tried to answer it.
Evil is a test of faith.
Though weak, I judge this last answer to be the most plausible and, for me, the only way to reconcile my faith in an all-good deity with the horrors of suffering and torture. No, I do not. If we are to take our concept of God seriously, this question must continue to disturb us and upset our complacency. Perhaps this is the only question that does matter. N.Y. I reconcile a just God with innocent suffering as Scripture does.