The topic of suffering probably is the hardest for me to bear as a Christian‚ because it is the result of evil in the world‚ and since God’s allowance of evil is hard to explain‚ it is an atheist’ best argument against Christian faith. My views on why God allows suffering are based on C.S. Lewis’ book “The Problem of Pain”. Lewis’ thoughts basically show that there is sufficient evidence that God is real and that pain exists because the all-powerful God created creatures that aren’t happy. Since
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Suffering is an Inescapable Part of Living What is "suffering"? Does it have any advantages? Suffering is an inescapable part of life. Whether it involves the minor bumps and bruises of daily living or major traumas such as terminal illness‚ death‚ or the breaking of a family‚ suffering touches all of our lives at one point or another. Helen Keller once said‚ "The world is full of suffering‚ but it is also full of people overcoming it". Though Helen Keller was not a philosopher‚ in this quote
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some temporal suffering‚ ‘No future bliss can make up for it‚’ not knowing that Heaven‚ once attained‚ will work backwards and turn even that agony into glory” (Keller 34). How can agony and suffering be turned into glory? Suffering is a term that is closely related to the concepts of evil and pain. The verb‚ suffer‚ means to undergo or endure. Suffering is linked with the experience of anguish or misery in which humans are aware of the hardships of their intent or function. Suffering‚ with its biological
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Does the book of Job‚ in your view‚ answer how God can allow there to be suffering in the world? The book of Job deals with a question which has troubled people time and time again: “Why do bad things happen to good people?. Society questions Why God allows us to suffer if we are faithful to him and we love him. In the book of Job it is taught that human suffering may be caused by many things. Just because we suffer does not necessarily mean God is angry with us. It also does not necessarily mean
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‘The Suffering in ‘Frankenstein’ is undeserved’ – How far and in what ways do you agree with the view of Shelley’s presentation of suffering? Frankenstein’s characters suffer in a couple of ways‚ psychologically such as through loneliness or through emotional pain of the death of close ones‚ and physical suffering. Shelley herself was an only child‚ so could have been considered lonely when she was younger‚ and her mother died‚ which is obviously a death of a close one. While suffering is deserved
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Premise 1: We should not cause unnecessary pain or suffering. Support: To avoid causing unnecessary pain or suffering is an objective moral principle. Intentionally causing someone pain and suffering is an immoral act. An exception to this principle‚ is if it is for the greater good. If many people’s pain and suffering can be prevented by causing suffering for one person‚ then it would be a moral decision to allow one person to suffer for the betterment of many others. This exception doesn’t
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has had many problems that have caused physical suffering and pain. However Pi has been able to overcome his adversities and has shown his endurance through suffering and continuing to survive. In this novel‚ the author makes a very close connection between Pi’s physical suffering and his mental suffering. Pi shows that as long as you are able to live through mental suffering‚ you are capable of living through physical suffering. When you have conquered your mental struggle
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Critical Lens Although the world is full of suffering‚ it is full also of the overcoming of it. Although the world is full of suffering‚ it is full also of the overcoming of it?. This literal and realistic statement said by one who has known suffering and has dealt with it. Helen Keller experienced a traumatic time as a child; being deaf and blind‚ she knew suffering but also knew that it is possible for it to be conquered and forgot. She suffered in this way as a child and her adult
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"Humans suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere" is a simple quote by Elie Wiesel with so much meaning behind it. This quote explores how a person or people suffering in one part of the world can affect people in an entirely different part of the world. When people are suffering from hardships such as war‚ famine‚ inequality or the occurrence of a natural disaster‚ the outcome can affect not only people in the vicinity of the suffering‚ but it can also affect people all over the world
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1. The Suffering and the Mystery of Evil “Man suffers whenever he experiences any kind of evil.” The concept of suffering and evil are closely connected. Pope John Paul II addresses this relationship between suffering and evil in his apostolic letter as follows: Man suffers on account of evil‚ which is certain lack‚ limitation or distortion of good. We could say that man suffers because of a good in which he does not share‚ from which in a certain sense he is cut off‚ or of which he has deprived
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