God Can't: How to Believe in God and Love after Tragedy, Abuse, and Other Evils

Book overview Description Editorial Reviews Hurting people ask heart-felt questions about God and suffering.

Some answers they receive appeal to mystery: “God’s ways are not our ways”.

Some answers say God allows evil for a greater purpose.

Some say evil is God's punishment.The usual answers fail.

They don't support the truth that God loves everyone all the time.

God Can’t gives a believable answer to why a good and powerful God doesn't prevent evil.Author Thomas Jay Oord says God’s love is inherently uncontrolling.

God loves everyone and everything, so God can’t control anyone or anything.This means God cannot prevent evil singlehandedly.

God can’t stop evildoers, whether human, animal, organism, or inanimate objects and forces.In God Can’t, Oord gives a plausible reason why some are healed, but many others are not.

God always works to heal everyone, but sometimes our bodies, organisms, or other creatures do not cooperate with God's healing work.

Or the conditions of creation are not right for the healing God wants to do.