Fallen world, Job, and 'he owes me nothing'
One host answers from loss: he and his wife lost two children between the two they have. The base is a fallen world — 'any life we have is a blessing and a positive, it's a plus' — and Job's question stands: 'where were you when I...?' God owes him nothing, which gave no warm fuzzies but kept the faith unshaken. Ben's robber analogy: if Mike watched a thief ransack your house and then offered to hold your hand, that's what 'God will walk through this with you' can feel like. C.S. Lewis's nouns-and-adjectives reframe: we are descriptors of the God in heaven, not the main point.
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