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The book of Job is the Bible's answer to the question, "Why do bad things happen to good people?"

Job, the man from Uz, is said to be blameless and then he's shown to suffer a great deal; loosing his children and wealth on one day and his health and dignity on the next. His friends hear of Job's fait and resolve together to be with Job and comfort him. As the friends approach Job it would seem that they are faced with the reality that the reports of Job's struggles failed to communicate the gravity of Job's situation.

Are you challenged with struggles and pain? Are you hard pressed on every side and do not know where to turn? Are you wondering how you can have peace in the midst of it all?

Does God cause or allow pain, calamity, destruction, and death? There are few questions as loaded as this one. Stated another way, does God allow evil to exist or does he cause it? Or, If God is loving and all-powerful why doesn't He stop all this evil and calamity in the world?

Any attempt to answer this question will be greatly influenced by a man's world view. Every man's world view will all but determine his answers to questions of origin, meaning, morality, and destiny. Questions like: How did I come to be? Where did I come from? Why do I exist? Why am I the way I am? How can I change the way I am? Do right and wrong exist? What is right and what is wrong? What is my destiny? What will happen in the end?