The Universality of God's Love

Elizabeth: If you say God loves us in the way you've described then how can he allow such horrible suffering to come into the lives of people and even his own children? Elizabeth: I think your reminder is a good one that love is not inconsistent with suffering at all. That there may be discipline that needs to be taken by God as a loving heavenly father that will ultimately be for our good if we respond to it in the right way. She says she was thinking about sort of the problem of distinguishing a Christian who really is acting morally because of being receptive to God's grace versus the Christian who is not just Acting decently because they have a decent nature but aren't really in submission to