Evil does not happen because a man has sinned📌 Evil happens because there is sin in the world 💯 But when bad things happen to good people🤔 Man is always left to ponder again, the cause of evil — he just cannot help it👌 At some point, even the pious will be driven to wonder about God's system of justice or maybe more appropriately, question His fairness 📌 Many were taught to believe from childhood that tragedies, evil, disasters were supposed to happen to the wicked, the selfish, the dishonest, who get the rewards of their handiwork for the aforementioned reasons. But when the righteous suffer, they were forced to reconsider that belief and question it! Why do the righteous suffer? It just seems as if there is an unfair distribution of suffering in this world, and yeah, many are troubled by that. You know why? The misfortunes of good people are not only a problem to the people who suffer and to their families. They are a problem to everyone who wants to believe in a just and fair and livable world. They inevitably raise questions about the goodness, the kindness, even the existence of God. On a friday afternoon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. By chance, a monk — Brother Juniper witnesses the tragedy and he was troubled by the event! Was it sheer accident or was it God's will that those five should die that way? He then embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths of those who perished in the tragedy. His search leads to his own death -- and to the author's timeless investigation into the nature of love and the meaning of the human condition. With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world. Thornton Wilder wins the 1928 Pulitzer Prize for this work of literature! NB: A conversation on this topic can only be done satisfactorily through Systematic Theology. I have not, in any way, agreed with #thorntonwilder conclusion. #juveh #sammyjuveh #thebridgeofsanluisrey #books https://www.instagram.com/p/ChM0TUIoW7b/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=