If God is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-good, why is there so much evil and suffering in the world?
Answer (for skeptics and philosophers):
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Real question: If God is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-good, why is there so much evil and suffering in ____ world?

12:6 Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, 7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations.
Paul’s Résumé:


Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.
Thorn:


Reason #1: To ______ Us.



9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
Reason #2: To ______ Us.



10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Reason #3: To ______ Us.



Challenge: What is my “thorniest” problem?

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