{"id":191,"date":"2009-09-14T18:56:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T01:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2009-09-14T19:01:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T02:01:40","slug":"presented-at-searching-together-2009-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Presented at Searching Together 2009 conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/searchingtogether.org\/\">Searching Together<\/a> holds an annual conference. These days it is usually in St. Croix Falls, WI, late in July. I went last year and talked too much. This year I talked too much and then read off <a href=\"http:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/download\/All%20Creation%20Groans.pdf\">this paper<\/a> I wrote just for the occasion. Some people liked it so I feel the need to point out I got a lot of helpful feedback before it reached this form.  I am pretty sure everyone who reads this blog has already been offered a chance to read this paper (twice). But since I haven&#8217;t been writing anything here, I will reheat some leftovers. I recently heard John MacArthur address a similar topic and I didn&#8217;t think he did half as good a job raising the question. He pretty much said that God was so wonderful and just he would never make people suffer who didn&#8217;t deserve it, which falls pretty far short of explaining why some people suffer more than others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searching Together holds an annual conference. These days it is usually in St. Croix Falls, WI, late in July. I went last year and talked too much. This year I talked too much and then read off this paper I wrote just for the occasion. Some people liked it so I feel the need to point out I got a <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=191\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}