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caffiend
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Date: April 22, 2017 08:56PM
RealJamesDean, please give my essay on Dispensationalism another read.
At the risk of sounding hostile or demeaning, RJD, you're thinking in terms of the Santa Claus god: "I want what I want, the way I want it!" The various explanations for pain and evil (Christian and other) are far too cumbersome for a discussion board, where banal solipsism ("God is preparing you;" "God is punishing you;" "This is your test" etc. etc.), although sometimes or partially true, are woefully insufficient. In LDS, you were spoonfed pablum instead of real theology.
What you want, RJD, is a kind of "I want God to prove and justify Himself to me on my terms." Responding to that is beyond the scope of my puny post.
Radio Bible Class (rbc.org) is a great site with lots of material from a Protestant point of view: daily meditations, books and pamphlets, etc. This page has a number of articles that focus on problems like job loss, injury, suicide, divorce/family break-up, etc. Worth poking around:
https://discoveryseries.org/category/when-life-hurts/If you're game for something a bit more intellectual, consider C.S. Lewis' classic, "The Problem of Pain."