SUFFERING

'...how do Christians seek to reconcile the existence of suffering and God's apparent passivity? Unlike atheists, we believe that the inevitable question "Why?" is in fact crucial evidence that we intrinsically believe things don't happen by chance, that someone is in control and that that things don't have to be this way. It seems counter-intuitive initially, but when we ask the question "Why?" we actually reveal that w believe there is a God, and not just any God, but a God who could and should be powerful enough to make things different, and who might care enough to want to both answer our question and make things better. The question "Why?" reveals that none of us can escape the paradox that we believe in a powerful and loving God, albeit we don't understand how we can reconcile this with a broken world replete with injustice and suffering.' 

Krish Kandiah, Paradoxology, p.94. 

THE ABSENCE OF GOD

'It is no accident that the first time the question "Where are you?" appears in the Bible, it was not from people looking from God, but from God, looking for his people.' 

Krish Kandiah, Paradoxology, p.58. 

THE ABSENCE OF GOD

'Paradoxically, even God himself experienced the absence of God - Jesus, the Son of God himself, cried in despair from the cross: "My God, My God, why have you abandoned me?"'

Krish Kandiah, Paradoxology, p.37. 

THE PARADOXES OF GOD & LIFE

'...it is often in the mysteries of life that we learn most about the mysteries of God. It is the very paradoxes of Scripture that help us come to God most effectively when life itself is a paradox.' 

Krish Kandiah, Paradoxology: Why Christianity Was Never Meant To Be Simple, p.2.