One of the central aspects of the three questions is the aspect of faith. God wants us to have faith. We often start to experience doubt in our faith when God isn’t revealing himself and he seems to just be hanging out behind the curtain. Job, according to Yancey, is not basically about suffering but rather his faith in God. Yancey then turns to try and explain how Jesus’ life is related to the

The second question that Yancey tries to answer is “Is God silent?” There are two things that might help explaining. One is that because clarification might not help us, God desires to keep us ignorant to what he does. Instead of God focusing on the cause, he focuses on how our response is. Secondly, he says that because perhaps we are unable to comprehend the answer so that is why keeps us ignorant. If we are trapped in viewing time in our perspective, we will find that God is unfair. When all sin has been punished or forgiven and everything restored, only then will there be fairness. But until then we just have to trust God, because he knows what how evil plays a role in the world ad we will not know. He gives two observations. One is that God didn’t free himself from the same demands of faith. Jesus experienced the same trial. He lost health, friends and was also tempted. The second observation that he makes is that we have little understanding of what our faith means to God. Only God can truly know what is of value to God. God says, “Blessed are those who believe and have not seen”.

Yancey begins to try to answer each question brought forth individually. He starts out with the question of “Is God unfair?” He points out that we aren’t exempt from disappointment, just as God was not. He did not have a way out of it, but rather a way to get through it. He sums it up saying if a Christian bases his or her faith on a world that can have no disappointments or faults, then our faith is going to definitely let us down.

The only thing that I found was difficult in reading this book was that it was hard to follow once it got to the middle of the book. I felt like he wasn’t answering or even attempting to justify the questions being asked. I felt a little lost in the midst of the book until towards the end. Hard questions such as these plague everyone's mind a

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