An Early Review of Bart Ehrmans New Book

Stanley Fish gives us an early glimpse at Bart Ehrmans soon to be published book, God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer. Ehrman is quoted as saying: “I could no longer reconcile the claims of faith with the fact of life . . . I came to the point where I simply could not believe that there is a good and kindly disposed Ruler who is in charge.” “The problem of suffering became for me the problem of faith.” “If God tortures, maims and murders people just to see how they will react – to see if they will not blame him (as in Job's case), when in fact he is to blame – then this does not seem to me to be a God worthy of worship.” “If he could do miracles for his people throughout the Bible, where is he today when your son is killed in a car accident, or your husband gets multiple sclerosis? . . . I just don’t see anything redemptive when Ethiopian babies die of malnutrition.”