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Title: God's Problem
Condition: New
Subtitle: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer
Author: Bart D. Ehrman
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0061173924
EAN: 9780061173929
ISBN: 9780061173929
Publisher: HarperOne
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: History
Release Date: 15/03/2009
Description: Just as with "Misquoting Jesus" where Ehrman revealed how the corruption of scripture by scribes caused him to reject his once-conservative Christian beliefs, in "God's Problem" Ehrman will discuss for the first time his personal anguish when he discovered the Bible's incoherent explanations for suffering and how that caused him to lose his faith altogether.In a fresh departure from Ehrman's recent focus on the New Testament, he expands his research to include much of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) in "God's Problem" and reveal the core responses to suffering proposed by the different biblical writers. The prophets: suffering is a punishment for sin; Job (two different answers): suffering is a test, for which you'll later be rewarded for passing; and that suffering is beyond comprehension, since we're just peons and God, after all, is GOD); "Ecclesiastes": it's just the nature of things, so suck it up; and, all apocalyptic texts ("Daniel", plus the Apostle Paul's letters and the book of "Revelation" in the New Testament): God will eventually make right all that is wrong.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 203mm
Item Length: 135mm
Item Width: 17mm
Item Weight: 227g
Release Year: 2009

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