[reed13k]

I would also recommend “Why bad things happen to good people” by Howard Kushner.

Kushner is a rabbi but I found nothing that wasn’t applicable to Christian belief as well.

After my son passed this was gifted to me and after a few months I finally read through it. It definitely helped to mend wounds.

[jjotto]

Kushner’s answers are in direct contradiction to 2000 years of Christian understanding and 3500 years of Jewish understanding.

Here’s a traditional rabbi with a traditional Jewish answer:

https://www.chabad.org/multimedia/media_cdo/aid/300707/jewish/Bad-Things-to-Good-People.htm