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The Dilemma of Death
Mortenson, T. 2017.  Answers 12(5):15-16. CELD ID 26403

Abstract
At some point, everyone struggles with tragedy. Without the Bible's account of creation, there are no good answers. Why is the world filled with death? Why did my friend's three-month-old son recently die in the ambulance on the way to the hospital? What kind of God would make a world where three-month-old babies die? And what about natural disasters like the earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands in Haiti in 2010, or the tsunami the next year that killed thousands in Japan, or the hurricanes and tornadoes that kill hundreds every year? Did God make a world with earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and tornadoes? But we don't just struggle to explain human death.