Bart D. Ehrman

God’s Problem

How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer

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BART EHRMAN is James A. Gray Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A leading authority on the early Church and the life of Jesus, he has been featured in TIME and has appeared on NBC Dateline, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, CNN, History Channel, major NPR shows, and other top media outlets. He is the author of twenty books and lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Description

War, disease, natural disasters, abuse, pain, and death— why do we suffer? If God is not responsible, who is? Surprisingly, the Bible does not have one answer but many “answers” that often contradict each other.