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==== Exemplarist Theodicy ==== [[Joshua Sijuwade]] argues that God allows evil in the world in order to turn certain individuals into exemplars, thus letting them contribute towards goodness of our world:{{blockquote|text=God having allowed a certain class of individuals to suffer—namely, the exemplary sufferers—would be justified by them being presented with the opportunity to transform into exemplars, and thus make a great contribution to the world being a good world. However, God is also justified in having allowed the rest of the sentient creatures in existence—namely, the nonexemplary sufferers—that do not fall into the aforementioned class, to suffer (and thus their suffering experiences not being gratuitous), given that the fact of them having undergone these experiences provides them with the opportunity to be of use in enabling other individuals to undergo the process of transforming into exemplars—and thus they are indirectly involved in the process of making the world a good world.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sijuwade |first=Joshua R. |date=2023 |title=The Problem of Suffering: The Exemplarist Theodicy |url=https://philarchive.org/rec/SIJTPO |journal=Studies in Christian Ethics |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=497–550 |doi=10.1177/09539468231158473}}</ref>}}
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