Kushner has one of the most understandable explanation of God and his relationship with suffering. Kushner gives us a reason to belief in God because he explains to us that God isn't responsible for the bad things that he is good but not all-powerful as we were taught He was.

The book starts with Kushner's explanation of why the righteous suffers. He believes that the reason that bad things happen to good people is that there is no reason. That there was a pocket of chaos left from when the universe was nothing but chaos.

Suffrage, like a bullet, doesn't have a conscience it strikes anyone that gets in its way. Suffrage isn't a tool of God to just punish evil people and to never strikes a good person; it will strike anyone at any time.

The story of Job has two completely different translations and meanings. In the both stories Job goes through numerous painful ordeals. But in the first story the Devil makes a bet with God to test His most faithful follower and see if he keeps his faith, Job does. In the second story, Job doesn't keep his faith because he is human and is mad. He challenges God to explain why he

Sometimes there is no reason, things just happen. When a man rushing to catch his flight arrives just in time to see it pull away from the terminal is mad at himself for being late. But later finds out that the plan crashes, he is happy he didn't make and so feels lucky but what happens if he did make the flight, what then. All you can say is that "sometimes there is no reason" why things happen one way and not another.

There is a Chinese tale in the book that proves that there is a cure for misery. It's about a lady whose only son died. She went to a Holy Man to find a way to get her son back. He said to find a house where there is never been sorrow and bring back a mustard seed back. She goes to one house and asked if this was a house without sorrow. But it was not and they told her all their sorrows. She thinks who better to help them than I, who also had misfortune. So after helping them she continued her mission and keep find in the same thing. In trying to find that mustard seed her sorrow disappeared because she helped others.

God is kind and just but He has His limitations. His first limitation is that He can't control everything. God doesn't control the natural disasters because a "Kind and Just" God wouldn't hurt innocent people. Kushner believes that a. Another limitations is that God gave us freewill and so can't stop us from doing evil, he can only give us choices and hope we will make the right decision.

is being punished but the answer God gives him is not what he expects. God says, in the effect, "Can you do a

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