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Or, God may be all-loving but not all-powerful. That is, God loves us enough to stop the suffering in the world but doesn\u2019t have the power to do so. This retains the compassion we so long for in God, but it robs Him of His sovereignty and divinity. So according to this argument, given the reality of evil in the world, God can be all-powerful or all-loving, but not both. If He was both, he surely would have stopped evil and suffering long ago. And yet it not only lingers, it flourishes, rampaging across our globe leaving a trail of death and destruction in its wake. What kind of God would allow that? Surely not an all-powerful and all-loving God!<\/p>\n

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And yet the Bible makes the claim that God is both all-powerful and all-loving. He spoke the universe into existence. He is all-powerful. \u00a01 John 4:8 explicitly says \u201cGod is love.\u201d He is the very definition of love. So how can you reconcile the claims that God is all-loving and all-powerful with the reality of evil and suffering in the world?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to be talking about this perplexing question Sunday in week three of our series Step Into the Light. But I would love to get your take. How do you answer this question?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"