Week 27: Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?
“The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised.” (Job 1.21)
The book of Job confronts one of humanity’s oldest and hardest questions:
Why do bad things happen to good people?
Andrew and Carlo explore the opening chapter of Job and discuss the surprising conversation between God and Satan that sets the story in motion. Why are readers given insight into heaven that Job himself never receives? And how can we trust God when we don’t understand what he is doing?
Highlights from this episode:
- Why Job is one of the Bible’s most unique books
- What the conversation between God and Satan reveals
- How Job’s response teaches us to trust God in the unknown
Listener question this week:
- The book of Zephaniah talks a lot about “the day of the Lord.” Has this day already happened, or is it something that will happen in the future?
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