Gods Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer

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There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. I'm enjoying reading this book for a class I'm taking , but I have several issues with it. First, I think the title is mis-leading at best. The issue isn't that the Bible doesn't answer the problem, it's that Ehrman doesn't particularly LIKE the answers it offers. I also found myself noting, throughout the book, instances where the author makes some blanket statements of the type that he disdains in other authors and writers, without any further breakdown, scholarship, or even justification for the remarks.

In addition, after discussing several Biblical "answers" for the problem of suffering - and skewering them all with detailed analysis which included when the individual books involved were written, in what context, why biblical scholarship finds their roots problematic, etc, etc - he then presents Ecclesiastes as the only acceptable answer to the problem of suffering I actually enjoy reading books by individuals who have landed on one extreme end or the other of the religious continuum, and I don't have a real issue with either end.

But if you exist on one end quit claiming you live in the middle. I've read other items by Ehrman and seen several of his video lectures, and he claims to be agnostic but his teaching, thoughts, lectures make it very clear he is actually atheist. Which, again, is fine if that's where he is - I just don't get the hair splitting of claiming otherwise. Maybe because it would too deeply offend his readers?

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Overall, though, this is a very readable book - if you've never really had a basic introduction to Theodicy this is a fantastic first read. He presents all of the major "answers" on the topic that have been offered across time, does a good job tracing them historically and putting them into context. Ehrman is a former minister, Bible scholar and lecturer, who has become a non-believer although he still goes to church with his wife on occasion. He has written an amazingly understandable study of the Bible that shows how it fails to answer the question "Why does God allow horrible pain and suffering in this world".