Why does an all-powerful God allow suffering? Bart D. Ehrman explores the Bible's sharply conflicting answers.
One Bible, Many Answers
Ehrman examines the ancient prophets who viewed famine, conquest, and drought as divine retribution for communal sin.
The book contrasts those prophetic warnings with the poetry of Job and Ecclesiastes, where innocent misery defies easy moral formulas.
Drawing on biblical history from the Torah through the New Testament, the author explores how apocalyptic writers attributed earthly agony to cosmic adversaries rather than human wrongdoing.
In God's Problem, the New York Times bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus challenges the contradictory biblical explanations for why an all-powerful God allows us to suffer.
