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 "question": "Why did God let this happen to me?",
 "answer": "Questions like this are the effects of the Fall of man. It all starts with a question—\"Why won't God give this to me?\"—and it ends with a question: \"Why did God let this happen to me?\" But God did not intend to leave man lost and hopeless. From the very beginning, He had a plan, first revealed in Genesis 3:15, the first promise of the Savior. Sin is the barrier between God and man. At the cross, Jesus Christ would remove the barrier and open the door to God so that anyone could have freedom to approach God by faith in Him.",
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 "lesson": "1-1",
 "lesson_title": "The Problem—Sin",
 "question_type": "rhetorical",
 "tier": 1,
 "faq_class": "rhetorical",
 "aeo_questions": [
  "What caused my experience of God's seeming absence?",
  "How did the relationship between God and humanity become broken?",
  "What was the reason behind God's allowing something difficult to happen to me?"
 ],
 "topic_anchor": null,
 "derivation": "extracted-rhetorical",
 "source_authority": "authoritative",
 "author": "Gene Cunningham",
 "book": "The Basics",
 "source": {
  "doc_id": "btbm-01-TheBasics-8-10-24",
  "book_page": [
   7,
   7
  ],
  "ref": "The Basics, Lesson 1-1 — The Problem—Sin (p.7)",
  "review_row": "rq-p019-8b49413b",
  "pdf_page": 19,
  "para_id": "the-basics-p0019-002",
  "printed_question": "And it ends with a question: “Why did God let this happen to me?”"
 },
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   "display": "Gen. 3:14–15",
   "osis": null,
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  "Cross",
  "Fall of man",
  "Freedom"
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  "Eve",
  "Fall of man",
  "Forgiveness",
  "Bible and Christ",
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  "Faith and salvation",
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  "Jesus Christ, seed of the woman",
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