{"id":4494,"date":"2018-10-30T17:22:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T21:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=4494"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:03:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T18:03:57","slug":"if-god-is-just-why-do-just-people-suffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/30\/if-god-is-just-why-do-just-people-suffer\/","title":{"rendered":"If god is just, why do just people suffer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4484\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4484\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/103018-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4484\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/103018-4-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"If god is just, why do just people suffer?\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/103018-4-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/103018-4-768x751.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/103018-4-1024x1001.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If god is just, why do just people suffer?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That is a big question that lots of people have wrestled with. Leibniz called it a theodicy, and I can offer a variety of suggested reading. TLDR: The Christian view tends to be that human freedom to choose has to include the possibility of evil. Here&#8217;s a general take from a favorite source, the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-theodicy1\">bit.ly\/bc-theodicy1<\/a>. For a more Catholic view: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-theodicy2\">bit.ly\/bc-theodicy2<\/a>. and for a classic more popular treatment, &#8220;When Bad Things Happen to Good People&#8221;: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-theodicy3\">bit.ly\/bc-theodicy3<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is a big question that lots of people have wrestled with. Leibniz called it a theodicy, and I can offer a variety of suggested reading. TLDR: The Christian view tends to be that human freedom to choose has to include the possibility of evil. Here&#8217;s a general take from a favorite source, the New &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/30\/if-god-is-just-why-do-just-people-suffer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If god is just, why do just people suffer?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4521,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions\/4521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}