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More Beautiful Than Bad
How God Redeems What He Does Not Prevent
Every honest believer has asked it. If there were a God, why would He allow such suffering? It is the question of Job, of Joseph Smith in Liberty Jail, of Elder Mutombo after the fourth of his small children died, of Mary at the foot of the cross.
This book takes the question seriously. It refuses to flinch.
But it offers a second question, less often heard, the believer can quietly ask back.
If there were no God, why is anything beautiful?
Why kindness. Why music. Why a woman whose face was shattered by a hurled frozen turkey walks across a courtroom and embraces the boy who threw it.
The skeptic owes us an account of the suffering. The believer can ask the skeptic for an account of the beauty.
A devotional for anyone carrying both questions, and finding the same Person behind each.
