It’s a fairly common idea. Because most of us try to understand unmerited suffering. Deep down (or not so deep down), most of us are okay with the suffering of people we think of as “bad” or “immoral.” We can even make peace when suffering seems to be the natural result of a poor decision. It’s really unmerited – I didn’t do anything to deserve this – suffering that bothers us. 

And so we try to make sense of it. And understand what its relationship is to the good God that we believe in. Thro...