Paradoxology: Why Christianity Was Never Meant to Be Simple

It seems that the God of the Christian faith is full of paradoxes:

• a compassionate God who sanctions genocide
• an all-powerful God who allows horrific suffering
• a God who owns everything yet demands so much from his followers
• a God who is distant and yet present at the same time

Many of us have big questions about God that the Christian faith seems to leave unanswered, so we push them to the back of our minds for fear of destabilizing our beliefs.But leaving these questions unexamined is nei...