If we want to reduce
the evil and suffering in the world, nobody else is going to do it for us, and there will be no miracles helping it along the way or higher power telling us how to do it.
To consider why we have
evil and suffering in the world today looking at the story of «Original Sin'through Adam and Eve.
Drama lesson with students debating one of the four characters and deciding who is to blame for the Problem of
Evil and Suffering in the world.
Explains the problem of
evil and suffering in a visual and interesting way.
Leading on from this students explore
evil and suffering in relation to the qualities of God and discuss how God can allow evil and suffering to exist.
They had indeed some dissatisfactions with their faith, which had mostly to do with the problem of
evil and suffering in a world presided over by a God of love.
God is against
the evil and suffering in this world.
First, I nor you know why there is
evil and suffering in the world.
Not exact matches
Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income...
In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased.
In such case it is either you are religious enough
and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this
evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it
and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales
and stories... There is another type of possessions
and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments
and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly
in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased.
in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things
and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most
evil ones are residents of public toilets
and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them
and for that they have possessed you
and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who
suffer unexplainable illnesses or
sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes
and goes as pleased...
If you believe
in God / Christ, then you have peace that no more
suffering, pain, death, bickering among humans, corruption, death,
and all of mankinds
evil deeds, etc. etc. will exist when you exit this earth.
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.
But without
in any way glorifying
suffering or pretending that it is not
evil, Christians worship a God who wills to be with us
in our dependence, teaching us «attentiveness before a good
and nurturant God.»
The faithful Mormons are offended because they think Christians are calling them
evil people, although many of us are not, while those of us who went to seminary
and suffered through a course on systematic theology keep stressing that there is actually a precise definition of «Christian»
and that Mormons differ from that definition
in a very few important ways.
I wonder if the
suffering and evil in this world
and the glory of God are tensions lived
in more than expectations realized?
If the One who advocated nonviolent love
and suffering as the true way to overcome our enemies had been destroyed by
evil at the cross, if he had remained
in death, then we would have to conclude that death
and failure are the final word for those who live nonviolently.
In the Faith pamphlet «The Disaster of Sin», the existence of
suffering and evil is confronted,
and the doctrine of original sin outlined.
Certainly the
evil of the
suffering in the world
and the loving control of God
in the world are not easily
and obviously reconcilable.
Third, the people have heard the proclamation of the gospel
in scripture
and sermon
and have begun to separate
suffering from
evil.
In this kind of theodicy Gethesemane, the cross, and the resurrection are important foci for understanding the depths of God's love, who, in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon i
In this kind of theodicy Gethesemane, the cross,
and the resurrection are important foci for understanding the depths of God's love, who,
in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon i
in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally
in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon i
in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for
and suffers with this beloved creation, both
in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon i
in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures
and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon i
in the
evil that its human creatures inflict upon it.
Even if
evil and suffering is a teaching tool, an all good God would only allow as much
evil or
suffering as is absolutely necessary,
in order to achieve a greater purpose.
Thus the traditional conception of deity, which we have received from our past, puts its main stress on divine absoluteness or aseity; on divine causative agency as the explanation of everything that occurs whether by direct divine willing or by indirect divine permission with respect to
evil done
in the world; on divine self - containedness
and hence lack of necessary relationship with anything else; on divine impassability, which makes any
suffering impossible for God;
and on divine moral perfection, with the giving of laws
in accordance with which everything should be ordered.
At the same time, some Christians have so spiritualized redemption as the promised reward of the individual
in the next world, that they have ignored the
suffering and evil of human life
in this world.
The true question is that of man's attitude
in the situation of
suffering and the grip of
evil.
But there's another kind of
evil lurking around the halls of the depressed,
and it's the belief that those who are stricken with depression (or any mental illness) are
suffering because of their lack of faith
in Jesus.
An understanding of God characteristically is ideological
in this way when it suggests that the injustice from which some
suffer and others benefit is not
evil at all but rather is divinely sanctioned.
Although we are quite
in the dark about the why of human disease
and suffering, ordinary observation can show us that the result of their occurrence is by no means necessarily
evil.
I find, on the contrary, that it is much more difficult today for the knowing person to approach God from history, from the spiritual side of the world,
and from morals; for there we encounter the
suffering and evil in the world, which it is difficult to bring into harmony with an all «merciful
and almighty God.
However, the mystery of the Cross tells us that
in God's Wisdom, which is the ultimate wisdom,
evil and suffering are conquered
in a way that goes against our natural instincts
and expectations - not by miraculous intervention, but by humble acceptance; or at least, that the miraculous triumph follows on from sacrifice rather than preceding it.
4 dLove
suffers long
and is ekind; love fdoes not envy; love does not parade itself, is not 2puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, gdoes not seek its own, is not provoked, 3thinks no
evil; 6 hdoes not rejoice
in iniquity, but irejoices
in the truth; 7 jbears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
But of course this
in no way answers the questioner who asks, «Why doesn't God stop
evil and cruel men from causing so much
suffering?»
He gives a reminder that he is still the true king of his people, that it is he (
and not this feeble king) who commands
in Israel, delivers Israel,
and serves as its commander -
in - chief, that it is he also (
and not this king that abdicates his responsibility) who himself bears all the
suffering of this people, who takes it to himself
and suffers it, that finally it is on him (
and not on this blind king) that there falls all the
evil committed among his people.
Wonder explains the heartbreaking honesty
in a book like A Grief Observed, wherein Lewis returns to his past arguments about
evil and suffering amid the pain of losing his own wife.
Essentially this question is one of theodicy: why is there
suffering and evil in this world?
Christus, from whom the name had its origin,
suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus,
and a most mischievous supersti - tion, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only
in Judaea, the first source of the
evil, but even
in Rome, where all things hideous
and shameful from every part of the world find their centre
and become popular.
Emil Brunner has distinguished five major themes
in which the significance of the death of Christ is described.6 There is the sacrifice, the ransom, the penal
suffering, the victory over
evil powers,
and the symbol of the Paschal Lamb.
It is humanistic
and prophetic —
in the sense of exposing the depths of good
and evil in those issues with which people struggle,
suffer, despair, hope, live
and die.
In another article, «Suffering and Creativity» (URAM12), I tried to evaluate Hartshorne's explanation of the existence of evil — and in particular, of sufferin
In another article, «
Suffering and Creativity» (URAM12), I tried to evaluate Hartshorne's explanation of the existence of evil — and in particular, of s
Suffering and Creativity» (URAM12), I tried to evaluate Hartshorne's explanation of the existence of
evil —
and in particular, of sufferin
in particular, of
sufferingsuffering.
Some of us look forward with great eagerness
and expectation for when Jesus will come again to throw off the
evil governments
and set up His own righteous rule, but not before He slays our enemies, kills the wicked, bathes the world
in bloodshed, burns away all those who did not follow Him,
and banishes the unrighteous into pits of never - ending fire to
suffer and burn for all eternity.
All the
evil in the world, all the
suffering and despair is necessary to this end.
The Norwegian Lutherans argued that
in some circumstances we must accept the lesser
evil if
suffering and destructive consequences would ensue from a birth.
As for Ms. Hinlicky's argument that non-abortifacient forms of birth control are not intrinsically
evil in light of the fact that many couples employ these methods
and suffer no
evil results, I can only refer her to the wisdom of Ecclesiasticus 5:4: «Say not: I have sinned,
and what harm hath befallen me?
The renewal of the world is the Christian hope,
and even though, because of our mortal limited lives, like Moses we do not live to witness the consummation, but see it only
in embryo, it is sufficient reward to have been used by God
in this mighty process of the redemption of the world from the
evil,
suffering and misery to which man himself has contributed.
Christus, from whom the name had its origin,
suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus,
and a most mischievous superst ition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only
in Judaea, the first source of the
evil, but even
in Rome, where all things hideous
and shameful from every part of the world find their centre
and become popular.
So the evangelist here invites us to look beyond the relief of human
suffering to a mighty act of God's chosen Servant, bringing the kingdom into history
and dethroning the rule of
evil in the world.
The question for relational theology is not so much why does God allow
evil and suffering to occur but where is God luring us
in response to
evil experiences once they occur.
Tragic natural disasters, the consequences of human preditory selfishness
and injustice will be experienced by both believers
and unbelievers; but whether those experiences make us bitter
and cynical or empathetic
and compassionate will depend a lot on whether the inevitable
suffering that comes to all will depend a lot on whether we believe our flawed existence to be essentially good, though disordered or essentially
evil in spite of its few «good» moments.
4 Love
suffers long
and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no
evil; 6 does not rejoice
in iniquity, but rejoices
in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
It is
in coming to terms with the death of Jesus that we find an answer to our search for meaning,
in face of the complex nature of finite existence
and the problems raised by
evil,
suffering and death.
Although this is not the place to discuss at greater length the nature of
evil, human sin,
suffering, death
and the relationship between them, they must find mention here for they constitute the chief problems which continually confront man
and make him question whether there is any justice or meaning to be found
in life.
He understood then that the answer to the deep
evil in the world
and the
suffering that we inflict on each other can not,
in the end, be some clever argument.