John Paul's Response To The Book Of Job

One thing that doesn’t come up when you think of the meaning of suffering is that it can be good thing. A lot of people think that people suffer for their sins but in Robert Schroeder’s book he writes about John Paul’s response to the book of Job.“John Paul responds that job teaches us an essential lesson about the relationship between God, humanity, and suffering- namely, that not all suffering is a punishment for sin.” (Schroeder, 92) Pope John Paul II wanted to get the point across that sometimes people can suffer innocently. To prove his point he goes into the book of Job and job’s story of suffering. I think that people can turn away from their faith because they suffer. The Catechism states “Our experiences of evil and suffering, injustice,