There is a moment familiar to almost every thoughtful Christian: a friend, a coworker, or a grown child raises a hard question about the faith, and the silence that follows feels heavier than it should. Why does God allow suffering? Isn’t the Bible just a human book? Didn’t Jesus simply faint on the cross? In that moment, the instinct is often to say,
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