![]() ![]() ![]() Then he shouts, “Lazarus, come out!” And the man who has died comes out (John 11:43–44). ![]() Martha cautions him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days” (John 11:39). When Jesus comes to Lazarus’s tomb, he is deeply moved again, and he commands that the stone be taken away. We pick up Rebecca’s chapter near the end of her commentary on the story of Mary, Martha, and the raising of Lazarus from the dead (John 11). That seems to be true both in the natural world and in our individual and corporate lives. Yet the Bible shows us a God who works powerfully in and through suffering to draw us to himself. They wonder how God’s creation could be called good (as it repeatedly is in Genesis 1) if death has always been a part of life on this planet and occurred long before humans were around to sin. Just as the presence of so much suffering in the world can be a stumbling block to people considering the Gospel, suffering and death are also a reason why many Christians struggle to accept an old earth and evolution. The excerpt below comes from Chapter 11: “How could a loving God allow so much suffering?” She tackles a dozen of the hardest objections to the faith, including the claims that Christianity is anti-science, misogynistic, and homophobic. Rebecca McLaughlin, who was featured at our 2019 conference and who has guest hosted a couple of our podcast episodes, released a book, Confronting Christianity (Crossway, 2019). ![]()
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