CelticBear’s Musings

I’m going to try to make this quick…

BeliefNet has a short debate between a religious studies scholar and former Christian, and a bishop of the Church of England and theologian, regarding the question of suffering in the world:

♦ Is Our Pain God’s Problem?

That link used above doesn’t look like it should be specific to this particular e-debate. If you go there and you don’t see that title mentioned as the topic, start here instead:
Bio: Bart Ehrman
Then as you read, click the arrow at the top toward the right to go from entry to entry. After Ehrman’s bio will be Wright’s bio, and then the debate entries.

If you don’t want to read the whole thing, this entry specifically is what I found most compelling:

♦ Bart Ehrman: God’s Kingdom Has Not Come

It really lays out the whole problem with the existence of suffering and a holy book most American’s profess they believe in which says very explicitly that suffering is the work of God, and that his kingdom will most certainly come during the 1st century A.D.
I don’t think Wright adequately addresses these issues.