If God cannot prevent evil, is He truly all-powerful? If God can prevent evil, but doesn’t, is He truly all-good? There is another way. Tune-in for the truer, better solution to the problem of Faith + Evil. // 1. What is karma? Is karma always true? Do bad things happen to people who seem pretty good? And do good things happen to bad people? Read Psalm 73:1-5 to hear Asaph’s words about wicked people who prosper. Now think of people in the Bible like Joseph, Job, and even Jesus. What happened to them? How did God work through those bad things for good? // 2. Read the following verses. Think about how each verse turns our perspective of pain and suffering upside-down: Psalm 119:71, John 16:33, 2 Corinthians 1:3-7, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, James 1:2-4 // 3. Read Luke 24:7 and Acts 2:22-24. What happened to Jesus? Was His crucifixion out of God’s plan or in God’s plan? What good came out of His death? How is this evidence that God can bring the greatest good out of the greatest evil? If He can do that, is there anything He cannot do when something goes bad in our lives?
