![]() ![]() The Problem of Pain seeks to understand how a loving, good, and powerful God can possibly coexist with the pain and suffering pervasive in the world and in our lives. After all, Lewis reminds us early on in this writing, it was the problem of evil that foundationally motivated his prior atheism. Fully realizing that he might be underestimating the reality of serious pain, he was compelled to intellectually address the issue, for he understood its profound implications toward belief, or disbelief, in God. In 1940, at age forty-two, Lewis penned The Problem of Pain accompanied by a humble, written admission. As a brilliant Oxford don, he suffered rejection from academic colleagues.Īs an older man who finally discovered young love, he endured the painful loss of his wife. As a young man, he directly encountered the ugliness of war. As a boy, he experienced the death of his mother followed by the emotional abandonment of his father. Lewis, a frontline witness to evil in the world, was not immune from personal pain. To be a follower of Christ and to live in the world, one must determinedly, intentionally face the issues and difficulties that lie inherent and obvious in the problem of pain.Ĭ.S. ![]() It fuels the flame of doubt and sometimes undermines the believer’s faith. ![]() Many use it as a way to remove God from reality. The problem of pain is inescapable, its effects profound. ![]()
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