In here Lewis tackles a big stumbling block to a person’s coming of faith. “ If God is a God of love, and if He is good, why is there pain?”

The book started with the ‘components of religion” and how Christianity differs from them, then in length, he shared his atheistic view of things and proceeded to discuss God’s omnipotence, holiness and love. He tackled sin which is the root of our problems and how it affects our lives.

He tackled faulty perceptions of God’s love, man’s love in contrast from God’s love, distorted definition of God’s goodness and set out the biblical picture of God’s love as our lens in understanding pain.

He even discussed hell and heaven; man’s free will versus God’s will and a short discussion on his personal view of ‘animal pain’.

At the end of it all, we cannot say God was unfair (as we understand and use it), we cannot say He is unloving (as we understand and use it) because of our sufferings, we cannot confess his lack of mercy in the presence of Hell nor go against the way which He sets out to save us. The Problem of Pain is the Problem of man, and we cannot say that God was unaware and not concerned because there was Jesus.

Read my blog at http://daveestrera.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/god-is-love-and-love-is-pain/