This way of imagining the difference Jesus can make goes as follows: In his passion Jesus is the exemplar for Sam and his family of why
God sends suffering.
God sends suffering as part of the process of our redemption from spiritual and moral imperfection, and it is particularly through suffering that human souls are purified and made perfect.
Those who think God can not mean well toward us because he «sends» us suffering can prove their point only by showing that there is a way to run the universe, compatible with the existence of other real powers than just the supreme power, which would be more fully in accord with the totality of interests, or by showing that
God sends us the suffering while himself remaining simply outside it, in the enjoyment of sheer bliss.
Not exact matches
God will
send them to hell to burn for eternity because
God is a ruthless psychopathic tyrant that gets off on making people
suffer.
So
god Sent himself to earth as his son to
suffered on the cross to relieve us of the curse he imposed on us in the first place because Adam and Eve made a mistake but he won't relieve us of our real
suffering.
But our Father is a fair and just
God who wishes us all to seek his comfort, peace, serenity, guidance and spiritual abundance and who demonstrated sacrifice by
sending His son Jesus who endured great pain and
suffering so we could be free indeed.
We shall live through a long, long chain of days and endless evenings; we shall patiently bear the trials fate
sends us; we'll work for others, now and in our old age, without ever knowing rest, and when our time comes, we shall die submissively; and there, beyond the grave, we shall say that we have
suffered, that we have wept, that we have known bitterness, and
God shall have pity on us; and you and I, Uncle, dear Uncle, shall behold a life that is bright, beautiful, and fine.
In the meantime, evil people may do evil things, and innocent people may
suffer, but
God is not to blame, because he has
sent his Son into the world to redeem it.
Though we may not always understand why and how sin and
suffering enters into
God's world, one thing we can know through the crucifixion of Jesus is that
God does not
send sin and
suffering, but rather, is a victim of it along with us.
God answered this vital question by
sending His Son, Jesus, as the fulfillment of the most violent religious writings, to show us that He had nothing to do with the violence, but was instead dying along with us in the midst of the violence, taking our sin and
suffering upon Himself, bearing our guilt and shame in His own being, all for the sake of those He loved.
Vic Dear
god please
send the USA into another war, the ammo business is
suffering.
God does not
send unhappiness and inner unrest because he wants men to
suffer.
Then he doesn't love us that much he just leaves it to luck like if the child is born in a good family christan family then chances are very high that he will go to heaven but to a bad family and also
god knows better than me that if he destroyed satun and did whatever i mentioned in my commented the world would have been a outstanding place to live in if
god can
send his son to
suffer then why not destroy satun or give him life sentence in hell or even better why din't he paid attention while making Adam and Eve and even if he din't why din't he renoved the tree of knowlage from the garden of Eden then he woundn't have to tell Adam and Eve not to eat any fruit from that tree
Repeatedly in the early records, for example, the adjective «holy» is applied to the Ark, and the significance of the attribute was revealed when Uzzah, inadvertently touching the sacred fetish, fell dead in consequence, (II Samuel 6:6 - 9) or when the men of Beth - shemesh, looking into it,
suffered such devastating penalty that they
sent it from their borders, saying, «Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy
God?»
And I really wish Christians would make up their minds about Jesus's place in the big scheme of things: is he a co-equal third of a trinity of ent.ities who somehow make up one large
god, or is he a lesser
god sent by his greater father
god to
suffer in order to straighten out the weird sin situation he created and didn't get around to fixing for thousands of years (the whole John 3:16 thing people are so fond of quoting only makes any sort of sense in the second situation).
We have eternal beings and
god sends a «son» for a few years, only a few days of which are really bad (and no worse than many humans
suffer) and then takes him back for the rest of eternity.
Or are we teaching them, like Jonah, that
God is vengeful and angry, loves to punish and destroy, and
sends suffering and pain upon the wicked?
That is, if you were intending to use the same comparative style as the sentence preceding it: «I am not a
god who sends suffering into your life; I am the God who suffers with you in life.&raq
god who
sends suffering into your life; I am the
God who suffers with you in life.&raq
God who
suffers with you in life.»
Heaven
Sent, If Jesus wept for those in Jerusalem who turned their backs on
God, will he laugh when
suffer hell?
So your
god sent his only son into this world to
suffer and die (great parenting).
Joseph himself was able to perceive that his own
suffering had led to a great grace for his family, as he told his brothers: «Do not reproach yourselves for having sold me here, since
God sent me before you to preserve your lives» (Gen 45:5).
Within his notion of holy worldliness, he suggests three qualities which describe the Christian's relationship to
God: knowing
God in the blessings He
sends us; relating to
God in strength, and not in weakness: and sharing with
God in His
suffering in the world.
Yes i know two counsellors i told one of them about this and i want to know why Jesus Christ without any mercy
sends that person to hell forever to
suffer and never ever forgives them even though they didn't commit any thing like murder and that also forever you can forgive that person went in minutes of that sin with in a snap of a finger then only why that sin why not give him another life in Earth after forgiving and punishing him for the rest of his sin it is said that
god and Jesus Is very merciful then why he is giving such a life sentence that is much more worse than eternal nothingness and why doesn't he punish Satun with eternal nothingness because i think most of the sins in Earth are committed because of him only?
The angels, who are
God's servants,
send great
suffering on the earth.
No true
God would demand that someone has to worship him / her / it... or if you don't believe, eventhough I love you, I will
send you to a place so full of pain and
suffering, it is unimaginable... forever..
The
gods of all organized religions, if true, would all be horribly unjust and evil deities to
send billions of people to eternal
suffering for choosing the wrong one or being born in the wrong place.
Christianity relies on faith of the
God that in love
sent His Son yo
suffer he'll for those who believe.
So instead of
God being called a bully, we say his judgements are indisputable, unchangeable and everlasting; he is better than us, high and lifted up, all powerful and holy; he is disappointed or sorrowful or angry about our sin; he constantly convicts us by the Holy Spirit; he
sends us
suffering in order to teach us, discipline us and inevitably bring us in line with his ways; and he threatens us with exclusion from him and his group now or forever in Hell unless we repent and straighten up.
Does that mean that before Jesus,
gods plan was to
send every one of his creations to hell for eternal
suffering?
For some reason, I feel like calling myself «blessed»
sends the message that I have somehow earned
God's special favor, that
God is rewarding me for good behavior, and that the millions of people who
suffer from war, famine, poverty, and sickness because they weren't lucky (or blessed or fortunate) enough to be born in the wealthiest nation in the world are simply not as loved by
God.
Calvinists in particular have a problem with Johnson's belief that we can never conclude that
God has
sent suffering to us.
God does not orchestrate
suffering, cause death,
send storms, destroy lives, or bring about death.
The individual can only hate a
God who
sends suffering for the sake of the «grand design.
And other texts: Letter of Consolation to all who
Suffer Persecution (1522), Temporal Authority: to what extent it should be obeyed (1523), covering a wide range of the responsibilities of the state, Ordinance of a Common Chest (1523), That Jesus Christ was born a Jew (1523), a defence of the teaching that Jesus was the promised «Messiah» of the Jews, To all Christians in Worms (1523), Concerning the Ministry (1523), Trade and Usuary (1524), stricter than some earlier medieval theories but not in practice greatly different (and he
sent a letter to the Saxon Chancellor, Gregory Bruck on the same topic), To the Councillors of all Cities in Germany that they establish and maintain Christian Schools (1525), How
God rescued an Honourable Nun (1524), the story of an escape from a convent, A Christian Letter of Consolation to the People of Miltenberg (1524).
My GF has cancer and it has been a
God Sent to her pain and
suffering.
You're a
God -
send to us
suffering from this disease.
As someone who
suffers from small lashes, this is a
god send.
Where is the responsibility of the world leader Winston Churchill... who said in an open letter to the London Times in: «Were England to
suffer a national disaster, I should pray to
God... to
send a man of the strength of mind and will of an Adolf Hitler.»
Golf - view rooms and suites on the end of each wing have large balconies that are not just a great place to entertain, but a
god -
send to anyone who
suffers from Seasonal Affective Disorder.
God's power was triumphant, but it was a difficult struggle, and the deity
sent Himself into a deep sleep to recover from the terrible wounds he
suffered in the battle.
After
suffering unsuccessful relationships, finding someone who offers a new chance at love and companionship can feel like a
God send.
If you could get in heaven because of your good deeds, why would JESUS had to have gone to the cross, you will not go to hell because you sinned, the bible says we all have sinned, you will go for rejecting
GODS free gift, his son, JESUS, SEE, HE TOOK YOUR PLACE IF YOU EXCEPT HIS OFFER BUT IF NOT YOU PAY FOR ALL YOUR SINS, KIND OF LIKE COURT, BETTER TO TAKE AN ATTORNEY THAN REPRESENT YOURSELF, sorry for caps, GOD loved you so much he
sent his son to die for you as payment for sin, you will answer to GOD for everything you do, JESUS lived a perfect life which was accepted by GOD for payment of sins, thats up to you if you except it, is bible vs man made religions, thats alot of commeon since, there are man made laws you go by or
suffer for, plus, there are so many religions you can make one up to best suit you, it do nt work that way, plus, excepting JESUS is the best way to heaven, why would you think you caould live perfect your whole life, you cant, the devil will use religion to lead as many people away from CHRIST as he can, even in the garden, eve was decieved.if the bible is not true than no man has anyright to even say whats right or wrong, things some people do they think is fine and so on, is stealing your car wrong, why, who said, and why are they right, think about it, salvation is simple, man makes it hard, other religions say you have to earn it, fine, if they live that good, they should except JESUS, why not except him, my way is through JESUS, if thats wrong, what have i lost, other ways are thru something or anything else, what if they are wrong, high price to pay for opinion, what if your son took someoneles punishment, and it cost him his life, how would you feel, think about
GODS feelings, you cant take a few verses from man religion and get anywhere, read the bible, if you believe theres a GOD in heaven, please do nt reject his son, all very good questions, thanks, i do nt want to be a problem, i just want you to be in heaven someday, i cant be good enough to there there on my own, so i looked to the perfect one, JESUS, you do nt worked to get saved, you work because you are savd.you get get back out in sin and backslide, but, if your really saved, the LORD lives inside you, it will bother you to do certain things, but you can get numb to it, plus, the bible says, you are not your own, you were bought with a price, JESUS BLOOD, free to you but cost him his life, GOD will chastise for repeated sin, you are his child, just like with your children, spend some time alone with GOD, ask him to show you, would love to talk to you guys over phone, i cant type, you can tell, theres so much more i can say please call me [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED] or email is [EMAILREMOVED]