Hurting people ask heart-felt questions about God and suffering. Some "answers" they receive appeal to mystery: “God’s ways are not our ways”. Some answers say God allows evil for a greater purpose. Some say evil is God's punishment.
The usual answers fail. They don't support the truth God loves everyone all the time. God Can't gives a believable answer to why a good and powerful God doesn't prevent evil.
Join us today as we talk with author Thomas Jay Oord about how God’s love is inherently uncontrolling and uncoercive. In his book, God Can't, he asserts that God loves everyone and everything, so God can't control anyone or anything. This would mean that God cannot prevent evil singlehandedly. This opens us up to understand and engage with God's work in the world in new and exciting ways.
Thomas Jay Oord is a theologian, philosopher, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. He is an award-winning author or editor of twenty-five books and an award-winning professor. Oord directs the Northwind Theological Seminary doctoral program in Open and Relational Theology. He also directs the Center for Open and Relational Theology. Oord is known for his contributions to research on love, open and relational theology, issues in science and religion, and freedom for transformation.
Thomas blogs frequently at his website: http://thomasjayoord.com
God Can't is available now at Amazon.
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