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Bishop Ting on...

Suffering:
No one can deny that this world is full of suffering, sorrow, oppression, and violence against people. All that is rational is destroyed by its own rationality, while the irrational flourishes and extends its control. From our human perspective, it appears that the world is bent on its own destruction. But this is not God's way of seeing things. God has never despaired of humankind. God feels that we can be saved and has therefore come into our midst for our salvation.

Atheism:
I am not terribly upset by the advocasy of atheism because the fact that God was, is and will be forever is not changed by any human denial of his existence. In our overwhelmingly secular society, even the very attempt to deny God is sometimes helpful by calling people's attention to the question of God. It at least leads some people to consider God as an option. In 19th century Europe, Nietzsche, in putting forward the thesis on the death of God, actually enlivened people's interest in the question of God.

"This book, by China's most influential Christian leader of the past half-century, will do much to inform us about what God is doing in the midst of the important changes that are taking place in that great country!"
Dr. Richard J. Mouw President Fuller Theological Seminary