The conversation between Strobel and the philosopher Kreeft went as follows:
"[So] The answer then, to suffering, is not an answer at all."
"Correct," he said. It's the Answerer. It's Jesus Himself. It's not a bunch of words, it's the Word. It's not a tightly woven philosophical argument; it's a person. The Person. The answer to suffering cannot just be an abstract idea, because this isn't an abstract issue. It's a personal issue. It requires a personal response. The answer must be Someone, not just something, because the issue involves someone--
God, where are you?"
"Jesus is there, sitting beside us in the lowest places of our lives... Are we broken, He was broken, like bread, for us. Are we despised? He was despised and rejected of men. Do we cry out that we can't take any more? He was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Do people betray us? He was sold out himself. Are our tenderest relationships broken? He too loved and was rejected. Do people turn from us? They hid their faces from him as a lepor. Does he descend into all of our hells? Yes, he does. From the depths of a Nazi death camp, Corrie ten Boom wrote: 'No matter how deep our darkness, he is deeper still....'
"Jesus is more than an explanation... He's what we really need... God has not left us alone. And for that, I love Him."
excerpt from "The Case for Faith" by Lee Strobel pp. 70-72
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