{"id":2830,"date":"2013-02-24T20:17:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T17:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2015-06-21T17:13:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T14:13:49","slug":"how-can-a-loving-god-allow-suffering-and-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/2013\/02\/24\/how-can-a-loving-god-allow-suffering-and-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can A Loving God Allow Suffering and Evil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_315\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2830-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/radio\/Bob%20Siegel%20Show%2002-24-13.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/radio\/Bob%20Siegel%20Show%2002-24-13.mp3\">https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/radio\/Bob%20Siegel%20Show%2002-24-13.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/radio\/Bob%20Siegel%20Show%2002-24-13.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=2830-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/radio\/Bob%20Siegel%20Show%2002-24-13.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Bob%20Siegel%20Show%2002-24-13.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>If God is such a loving being, how can He sit back and allow suffering and evil in the world? At least once a year, Bob takes the time to address this question, the most frequently asked by those who object to Christianity. The discussion begins about two thirds into the program, after Bob deals with some other subjects.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Other Topics:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Religion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-Saturday Night Live&#8217;s open season on Christianity<\/p>\n<p><strong>Politics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-Media buzz over Marco Rubio&#8217;s drink of water: Journalism at its worst<\/p>\n<p>-Dr. Benjamin Carson challenges our president during National Prayer Breakfast<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If God is such a loving being, how can He sit back and allow suffering and evil in the world? At least once a year, Bob takes the time to address this question, the most&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions-answers","category-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4497,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/4497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobsiegel.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}