As a Christian, our faith doesn’t minimize suffering — it meets it with both honesty and hope. Scripture acknowledges the ...

One contemporary theologian who has seriously attempted to work out the meaning of divine suffering is Nicholas Berdyaev. He is led in this direction by the conviction that only a God who suffers ...

(I know, I know: he was quoting the Psalms, and who quotes a poem when being ... the point is that God is with us, not beyond us, in suffering.) This makes all kinds of sense to me in my current ...

So why does God allow suffering? Maybe it’s because without it, we would never truly understand the beauty of life. Maybe ...

Suffering reveals the depth of our character, our capacity for compassion, and our resilience. Through pain, we build inner fortitude that can carry us through any challenge life throws our way. 3.

3. Suffering can serve as an active form of prayer, if we allow it. “It shouldn’t be thought that he who suffers isn’t praying, for he is offering this to God. And often he is praying much ...

Levinas quotes Proverbs 15:8 ... At the very point of suffering, God's name is invoked and his own presence re-situates suffering in relation to his will. At this juncture - the experience ...

The religious life does not guarantee us lives free of pain but it does guarantee us lives free of suffering if we will just trust in God’s saving power. Get the latest news and more great ...

Throughout this section, the text states repeatedly that it is God who will be the direct cause of our pain and suffering (see vs. 20-22, 24-25, 27-28, 36, 49, 59, 60-61, 63-65, 68). Our parasha ...

Earthquakes, volcanoes, illness and so on are not caused by humans but they result in human suffering. Some people cannot believe that a good God would have designed a world with natural evils in it.