How Can An All Powerful And Loving God Allow People To Suffer?

In Luke 7:11-17 we come face to face with the anguish of suffering and death. A woman, who has already lost her husband, has now lost her son.

Giles Cattermole is an Accident and Emergency Consultant. In this film he talks about his experience of suffering and begins to explore the Bible’s response to one of the biggest objections people have to the Christian faith. Watch the film and consider for yourself, how can a good God allow suffering?

Aren't Christians arrogant to believe that Jesus is the only way to God?

Chapter 1

What kind of God allows suffering?

Chapter 2

Did David Hume dispose of miracles?

Doesn't faith contradict reason?

Resurrection: history or legend?

Delving into the problem of evil

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. ― C. S. Lewis

Who is good enough to get into heaven?

Too much pain to believe in God?

Is living a good life enough?

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

No truth apart from Christianity?

Not enough evidence, God!

Luke wrote his book to tell his friend Theophilus about Jesus (Luke 1:1-4)

Going through ‘Uncover’ brought up questions about who Jesus really is

Examine the evidence about Jesus found in early non-Christian writings.

What would meeting Jesus be like?

Believing in spite of the evidence?

Christianity was a bit like Father Christmas – you grow out of it

Evidence A: Does Jesus make you angry?

Does archaeology confirm the New Testament?

Evidence B: Jesus wants you to be like the prostitute

I decided that there was nothing left in my life worth living for

Was it wicked?

Evidence C: A tale of two sons

Chapter 5

I realised God cares for me

I couldn’t understand what was so special about Jesus

No God? No Good.

Chapter 6

Chapter 7