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Forced to confront the question of suffering and the question of God, this study is developed in four parts. The first part recalls how the old justification of God reduced suffering undergone or ill-being to ill-doing, non-being or improved being. The second part shows how when we pay careful attention to suffering, we discover it is opposed to all those definitions and constitutes an original evil. It presents a form of being. It does not enter into any universal order. The third part follows some attempts of contemporaneous philosophical theology, in particular with the concept of process, to escape from an impossible conciliation between goodness and the power of God. The last part takes up, in the horizon of suffering, Christian faith in the Spirit, Christ, and the Father : God is against, with, and beyond suffering. If the weakness of God does not know how to resuscitate man, God, in the absolute freedom of his origin, remains free to love and free to limit himself