Why must
a man suffer for his belief in a higher power?
Men suffered for breaking these taboos quite apart from the question as to whether they had any choice in the matter.
One Virginia Beach
man suffered for over a year with a cancer diagnosis as his health steadily deteriorated.
Not exact matches
I'm thinking
for example of the little girl who reportedly
suffered a dog bite on Southwest Airlines earlier this year, or the
man who was viciously attacked by a dog on Delta in 2017, and the widely reported airline moves to restrict support animals from airplane cabins.
If a prosecutor wants to convict a
man of assault, he is (without a doubt) going to paint a picture
for the audience of the
suffering of the defendant, and will likely use expressive language to evoke a feeling of sympathy from the jury, who (as they listen) visualize the potential
suffering of the
man / woman in front of them.
Women who rode a lot on saddles made
for men, she adds, could find themselves
suffering from a range of health problems, such as lower back pain and bladder disorders.
While the best electric shavers
for men will not be able to give you a perfectly fully smooth face, this isn't necessarily a bad thing — especially
for men who frequently
suffer from pain and irritation.
A Marietta, Ga.,
man, Robert Meaders, organized a campaign
for a former Marietta High School classmate Missy Cantrell Wilford, whose daughter Maddy is recovering from wounds
suffered in the attack.
On June 11, 1963, Thich Quang Duc showed the world that it is not the right of
man to cause
suffering for another human being.»
RELIGION - there has always been this invisible magical
man with no explanation, got bored and thought hey i want some company and * POOF * created everything from nothing besides
man that he used dirt to make and women that he used a rib to create then
for the next generation a lot of incest happened and now we are at 6 billion people in only 6,000 years were the majority of people will
suffer for eternity to do not believe in him, even though he could easily save them...
And the Christian God is a lot like Prometheus — a God who is animated by love of and pity
for man and is willing to
suffer for us to be healed or delivered from the misery of our mortality.
Jesus dying on the cross was an act caused by
man's sin, but, look, He applied the pain and
suffering for the good of the world that all might have life everlasting.
@ Concert: «I believe like a child that
suffering will be healed and made up
for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despi.cable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of
man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice
for all hearts,
for the comforting of all resentments,
for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity,
for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.»
Something else was going on in this
man's
suffering than a this -
for - that retributive exchange.
«Think about the
suffering this
man did
for all of us... The beatings, spitting, punching, stabbing, nailing...» you think he was unique in that treatment of prisoners condemned to crucifiction?
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...
Think about the
suffering this
man did
for all of us... The beatings, spitting, punching, stabbing, nailing...
Not quite tallulah, all the other gods are
man invented or possibly demonic.Every other idol god either mimics God and or requires a series of works to gain their favor.They are created by
men to appease the inner knowledge of God, but all fall short of the creator God.You can not work your way into Gods good graces, you can only be saved by faith through grace.God alone has resolved the sin problem we all
suffer from, in the selfless sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.It is by accepting Jesus» redemption
for us that allows us to be reconciled with God.God bless
With regard to another post regarding faith... I have seen my preemie child struggling
for life... I have held the hand of an old person as they slipped from life to death... I have stood vigil in the room of a
man of faith as over 40 friends and family crammed into a room sharing pain and
suffering as he slipped away
suffering from cancer at a young age.
Why the RCC thought their priests were above the law and why they cared more
for the reputation of their priests more than
for the innocent children that
suffered at the hands of these horrible
men is beyond me.
I asked a question on my FB page, «Would you invite a
man who burned a dog at a stake with half - green wood s - l - o - w - l - y, so that he
suffered agonizingly
for half an hour before dying, to your church?
Satan would have loved it if Jesus would not
suffer for man - kind because then the gates of Heaven would remain closed.
Hope amidst
suffering, hope when
men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of
men, hope
for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope
for our children,
for our elderly, hope
for all the millions of
men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.
With regard to others, it is our duty to cultivate within ourselves respect
for the sacred and to show the face of the revealed God — the God who has compassion
for the poor and the weak,
for widows and orphans,
for the foreigner; the God who is so human that he himself became
man, a
man who
suffered, and who by his
suffering with us gave dignity and hope to our pain.
For therefore we both labour and
suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all
men, specially of those that believe.
Likewise, a Nephite king named Benjamin declared around 124 b.c., «And lo, he shall
suffer temptations, and pain of body, hunger, thirst, and fatigue, even more than
man can
suffer, except it be unto death;
for behold, blood cometh from every pore, so great shall be his anguish
for the wickedness and the abominations of his people.
Says Durant: «I never got over my wonder that out of the ape and the jungle should have come at last a
man able to conceive all humanity as one, able to love it, and
suffer for it, without stint».
The great «paradox of the cross,»
for Mark as
for Paul and many another, was the self - humiliation of the glorious, celestial «Son of
Man» in accepting
suffering and death
for the sake of «many.»
I feel sorry
for Hawking that such a bright mind is locked inside a broken body, but the bitter sarcastic
suffering of this
man should not be heeded.
It is apparently not obvious to just any
man that he should care
for the need of others, but to be Christian is to identify oneself with humanity in its deepest
suffering and highest glory.
Women,
men, children, unemployed people, excluded and oppressed people, workers, landless peasants, communities
suffering from racism, impoverished city dwellers, indigenous peoples, students, intellectuals, migrants, small business people, outcasts, declining middle classes - citizens - are asserting their dignity, demanding respect
for their human rights and natural heritages, and practising solidarity.
Far from thinking it unfair to visit on an innocent
man retribution
for a deed he had not done, it seemed then the essence of justice that any or all members of a kinship - group should
suffer for wrong done by one of its members.
There are royal psalms voicing the festival spirit of celebration at the court, praying
for help in the king's need and
for blessing on the king's rule, and there are psalms in which the common
man poured out his hope and trust in God amid the ordinary happiness,
suffering, and drudgery of daily life.
was so vital
for Bonhoeffer that he lost interest when the two elements were separated: Christology not qualified by something like non-religious interpretation became an unrelated entity and
suffered a fatal loss of reality; nonreligious Christianity without Christocentrism became a Sisyphean endeavour of modem
man to adjust to a newly discovered self and world.24
But in a fallen world, tainted by sin, where selfishness,
suffering and death deface the primordial goodness of the world, further signs are needed
for man's sake.
The only
suffering after death that holds any purpose
for men who choose to reject God is the
suffering that it takes
for the soul and body to be wiped from existence.
I think the bottom line with the RC church problems is this: when you require
men to live in the unnatural state of celebacy, all you get
for applicants is a group of
men suffering from various degress of anti-social disorders.
The implication that
suffering is an attribute of creation designed - in by God seems incompatible with the Crucifixion as being brought about by God's desire
for reconciliation with
Man.
This is the God, then, who lets the
suffering of
man go on, who is deaf to his cry, who does not prevent the persecution, who
for some time grants neither deliverance nor answer to prayer, so that one can understand the accusation of
man against him, the accusation of the king: «This trouble is from the Lord!»
I often get jealous of the people who «strike it rich» with book deals and conference invitations, who get the parties and the fame because they were bad but now they found Jesus, but then I look back over my life, at how far Jesus and I have walked together, what we have been through together, and how we have
suffered, and grieved, and rejoiced, and laughed together, and I realize that no book deal, bank account, or applause from
men could ever substitute
for what I have with Jesus.
He accepted the
suffering, he lived with it, he searched it, and he found its costly meaning
for him — that he was to live as one called under God — to live as a lonely
man — to live
for an idea.
On the principle that has driven him from the start, and that has apparently been supported at every turn by God's response — namely, that the righteous ought not
suffer — Abraham might have pressed the case to its logical conclusion: to spare the city
for the sake of one righteous
man.
This is just another way of saying that God loves every
man at every moment in every specific situation as he loved his Son Jesus Christ: not more (
for Jesus Christ was delivered up to temptation, to testing, to fatigue, to hunger, to
suffering and to death), but not less.
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?»
Oh, you sufferer, whoever you may be, if your
suffering was not hidden because you wished to hide it (
for then you can manage; your action calls
for a different comment) but if it is because of misunderstandings then you, too, have gone among
men, listened carefully to their explanations, sought out their instruction, taken part in their meeting.
A
man may have
suffered throughout his whole life without it ever, in any true sense, being able to be said of him that he has been willing to
suffer all
for the Good.
More than the gruesome tales of how they were tortured, it is more horrifying to imagine how mankind could create a burning hell on earth, that was what it must have been
for the Christians of Lyons and Vienne; yet these primitive Christians
suffered and endured just believing that a
man called Jesus gave his life
for many others.
The concepts of ransom, of vicarious
suffering for the guilt of
men, of propitiation and sacrifice all too easily turn into descriptions of how God is appeased through
suffering, and thus the point that the atonement stems from his love is lost.
He
suffered voluntarily
for the sake of the
men on the ward.
When Jesus says, as in the Fourth Gospel's interpretative words, «Love one another as I have loved you, greater love hath no
man than this, that he lay down his life
for his friends,» the very quality of the love which God has expressed through Jesus becomes the quality and character of
suffering love poured out
for another beyond the worthiness of that other.