Life less painful, death more hopeful / Reports from other church synods / Does God love everyone?

"Life less painful, death more hopeful" In the spring, 1977 issue of the Bethesda Bulletin, there came to my attention an article by the chaplain of that institution, Rev. Richard Bennink, with the above title. The substance of the article is rather disturbing -- for it is hardly Reformed and surely not Scriptural. He appears to reject the idea that God "permits" pain and death. He will have nothing of the thought that God uses this as a means of testing our faith. He has reservations about...