Restoration Light Publications and Articles
Why God Allows Suffering and Wickedness
Will Mankind's Ills Ever Cease? -- A time of blessing soon to come will more than overrule man's present sad state.
The Restoration of All Things -- When all mankind will know why they have suffered in this present age.
Mankind's Course to the Day of Judgment -- How God's judgments and his wrath upon mankind has been misunderstood; how the day of judgment will be a blessing for all mankind.
Understanding Kingdom Mysteries -- Why did God give us a book that is hard to understand? Why has God permitted mankind to come to such an array of confusing doctrines of who God is and why He put man on earth?
Publications and Articles by Others
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Authors Associated With Bible Students Movement
If There is a God,...Why?
(Associated Bible Students of Central Ohio) - Why is there terror, sickness, hunger, death, fear, confusion, prejudice, unemployment, pain, inequality…?
Why Does God Permit Evil?
(Associated Bible Students of Central Ohio)
We read in Genesis 1:31: "God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good." But everything is certainly not "very good" today. What happened to change the situation? Why did God permit evil to get a start in the world and develop to the extent that it has? And why doesn't He put a stop to all this madness?
What Is This World Coming To?
(Bible Students Congregation of New Brunswick)
Is it any wonder so many ask, “What is this world coming to?” Some reason further, “If there is a God who cares, why does He permit all of this trouble, evil and suffering?” Not finding reliable answers to this question, many have abandoned religion.
HOPE for a Fear-Filled World
(Dawn Bible Students Association)
The Golden Future - A Foreview of Better Times
(Bible Fellowship Union)
Chapters: Does God Care? * Into the Darkness * Whither Man? * A New Social Order * Dead Men Live Again! * The Choice
If There is a God, Why...?
...why are things as they are? Why is there terror, sickness, hunger, death, fear, confusion, prejudice, unemployment, pain, inequality...? IS THERE AN ANSWER?
God Loves You!
Words of Life for All Mankind
A "Do You Know" Tract
Why God Permits Evil
Why doesn't God do something about all the suffering that is in the world today? Why does God allow an innocent baby to sicken and die? Multitudes are killed or maimed by tornadoes, cyclones, typhoons, and earthquakes—cannot God do something about this? When hundreds are killed in accidents over a single weekend ... "Has God no pity?" As far back as history reaches, man has suffered and died in war, pestilence, famine, and calamities. And all in every generation have finally died, having been beaten down by the great enemy Death. Abel, a son of Adam, whose sacrifice was pleasing to the Lord, was the first to die, being murdered by his brother Cain. Today more than a hundred thousand humans die every day. Our hospitals and mental institutions are filled with the suffering and dying. No wonder many are wondering where God is, and what He is doing about the distresses of humanity.
(Dawn Bible Students Association)
Evil - Why God Permits It
THE QUESTION is often asked: Why doesn't God do something about the suffering that is in the world? It is asked in time of war, when believers and unbelievers are wounded or killed. It is asked when accident or illness brings injury or death to the innocent. It is asked when the unrighteous seem to prosper, and faithful people endure hardship. It is asked when upheavals of nature--tornadoes, cyclones, typhoons, earthquakes, volcanos--kill those who dwell on the earth. Has God Himself no pity?
(Faithbuilders Fellowship)
Why Does God Permit Evil?
When we see a senseless tragedy or hear of one in the daily news, our hearts go out to the bereaved and we call in our desperation: Why? O God. Why? God, why don’t you do something? What would you do . . . if you were God?
(Pastoral Bible Institute)
Why Does the Lord Permit Evil?
(Peoples Pulpit, Volume 4, Number 3) -- Psalm 25:14
THE QUESTION of the Ages is, Why did the Almighty,
originally, permit Evil—Sin? And why has an Omnipotent
Ruler such as He, for more than sixty centuries, permitted
Satan to continue his reign of sin and death? Leaving out
entirely the unscriptural theory so prevalent, respecting a
purgatory of centuries, or a torment everlasting, and
considering merely the trials, suffering, sorrow and pain of
humanity during the present life, how shall we account for
their permission by an All-Powerful Creator, who knew the end
from the beginning? Why does He permit injustice, unrighteousness, headaches,
heartaches, etc.? Why does He not deal with humanity
graciously, kindly, lovingly, as a Father—as He deals with the
angelic sons of God? Is it just or loving on the part of our
Creator to bring forth millions of His creatures under these
admittedly unfavorable conditions—beset by weaknesses and
sinwardness from their birth and surrounded by others,
similarly weak, and beset by Satan and his minions—wicked
spirits? Is it just that we should thus be in an unequal fight
subjected to weaknesses and dying and imperfect conditions on
account of the sin of our first parents and then, on the same
account, be in danger of an eternity of torture, with nine
hundred and ninety-nine chances out of a thousand against us?
The Whole Creation Groaneth and Travaileth in Pain Together Until Now
(People's Pulpit, January 25, 1912)
Subtopics: The God of All Grace * Does God Pity Us * The Arm of the Lord Revealed * Waiting for the Sons of God * The Non-Elect Also Exhorted
Greater Sufferings - Greater Rewards - 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
(R5951) - What are light afflictions? What is their object? How shall we attain this object?
The Christ Perfected by Suffering - 1 Peter 4:13
(R5778) Why do they who belong to Christ suffer?
Jehovah's Suffering Servant - Isaiah 52:13; 53:1-12
(R4831) - These verses as applied to Jesus and his disciples.
Suffering As a Christian - Acts 21:30-39; 1 Peter 4:16
(R3188) - If any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed.
Perfect Through Suffering - Hebrews 5:7-10
(R1806)
Be Ready - The Days are Evil - Poem
Non-Resistance of Evil - 1 Thessalonians 5:15; Matthew 5:39
(R5897) - Why are Christians instructed not to exact justice?
Machinations of the Evil One - How to Vanquish Him -- James 4:7
(R5897) - "Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you."
Upheld in the "Evil Day" - Psalm 91:11,12
Application of this scripture.
Can Evil Befall the New Creature? - Psalm 91:10; John 19:1,18.
(R4767)
Why Do Saints Suffer?
(Pastoral Bible Institute)
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