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"Job: Angry at God for the Crime of Being" - OaD Ep. 168

Owls at Dawn

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Is There Still an Answer?

There's an important distinction between having an answer and having an explanation, right? What the kind of Christianity we grew up with wasn't just having an answer, it was having an explanation. And this is the obvious area where no explanation is possible, right? There's just no explanation that's going to suffice for actually explaining why suffering occurs at such a high level. But there still is an explanation,. what's anathema to contemporary like American Christianity is that there isn't even an explanation because God has all maturity in the world and he doesn't have an explanation - He's got nothing. So that's something that the Jewish, the best Jewish interpretations really grab onto is just we kind

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