Why Do The Innocent Suffer

If God is loving and powerful, why did He allow suffering to exist?
If God is all loving, and all powerful, couldn’t He stop all suffering?
Why are innocent children born deformed?
Why are there wars? What about tornadoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis?
Doesn’t God care about all the people who are suffering in the world?

Why Do The Innocent Suffer? is the most comprehensive discussion of this topic. Saia compares the various religious and philosophical reasons offered to answer this question, then solves the problem with a thoroughly Biblical answer. We might summarize the message of the book as an answer to the question of Moses in Genesis 18:25, “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

Mike’s thorough exegesis of the book of Job is a highlight of the book, and would serve every pastor and teacher very well.