Course Description
This course will challenge you to test your faith in God against a former believer who now is agnostic.
One of the reasons he became agnostic is due to the problem of pain and suffering in a world where a loving God ultimately rules.
During this course you will read Bart Ehrman’s book, God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails To Answer Our Most Important Question-Why We Suffer.
You will read of challenges skeptics make on the Bible’s reason for suffering, but rest assured there are answers to these challenges.
We will also address a defense to the challenges that Ehrman is not aware of. This class will run with weekly live webcast discussions.
Course Outline
The course is divided into 8 main topics called modules:
- Introduction: Why Does God Permit Evil?
- There is Evil and Suffering in the World Because God Punishes Us For Sin
- There is Suffering Because Man Sins Against Man
- There is Evil and Suffering So We Can Learn What Good and Love Is
- Suffering and Pain Are a Test and a Mystery
- There is Pain and Suffering Due to Evil Forces (Satan and his minions)
- There is Pain and Suffering So God Can Teach Us Lessons on How to Live
- Conclusion: The Last Great Day vs. Pain and Suffering
This is An Instructor Led Class
Estimated Completion Time
8 Weeks, approximately 1.5 to 2.5 Hours/Week
Target Age Group: 14 - and up
Course Designed by:
Mike James
Mike has been an Elder with the Church of God International (CGI) since 2003.
He started working full time for the Church last fall after over 33 years of work at the Central Intelligence Agency.
Some of Mike’s duties with CGI include overseeing CGI groups in Africa and Asia, creating new CGI cell groups in the U.S., hosting CGI “Armor of God” programs, and writing articles and booklets.
