Is God to Blame? Moving Beyond Pat Answers to the Problem of Suffering Quotes

“To live thoughtfully with Christlike love we must allow ourselves to be disturbed by the grotesque realities surrounding us and sympathetically enter into the nightmarish suffering of others.”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Is God to Blame?: Beyond Pat Answers to the Problem of Suffering

“In a creation populated with free agents, God doesn't always get what he wants. Augustine and the church tradition that followed him were simply mistaken when they insisted that "the will of the omnipotent is always undefeated." Because God desires a creation in which love is a reality, he allows his will to be defeated to some extent.”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Is God to Blame?: Beyond Pat Answers to the Problem of Suffering

“many people have trouble passionately loving and living for God because they have a mental picture of him that inspires anything but passion.”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Is God to Blame?: Beyond Pat Answers to the Problem of Suffering

“Whenever people are separated by racism, the church is to work to manifest the one new humanity Jesus died to create (Eph 2:14).”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Is God to Blame?: Beyond Pat Answers to the Problem of Suffering

“This is the foundation of all sin: the lie that God is untrustworthy, the lie that God is not altogether loving and that he doesn't have our best interests in mind.”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Is God to Blame?: Beyond Pat Answers to the Problem of Suffering

“Our choices matter. Much hangs in the balance. Our freedom is God's risk and our dignity.”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Is God to Blame?: Beyond Pat Answers to the Problem of Suffering