Suffering
Posted on March 23, 2012. Filed under: Being Christian, following Jesus Christ, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Jesus Christ Jeshua the Messiah Jahushua, Suffering | Tags: 14 Nisan, 2° Adam, Adversary of God, Cross, First Born, Impalement of Christ, New Creation, Will of God, Yah |
When Jonah got a task to do from God he was afraid for his own well-being and tried to avoid the task. Jeremiah did not mind complaining sometimes. While Moses more than once questioned what he was supposed to do if it would bring out the best, and even one time forgot to mention that [...]
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Posted on March 19, 2012. Filed under: Suffering, World | Tags: Belgium, Coach Crash, Death, Disaster, Heverlee, Leuven, Lommel, Sierre, Swiss Alps, Youngster |
Last week was a black one for Belgium, but in which we saw a lot of solidarity and a certain unity of feeling in the Dutch, French and German speaking parts of the country. Though every three seconds a child dies and annually in the USA only 8,000 children are injured in school bus crashes [...]
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Posted on August 5, 2011. Filed under: Being Christian, following Jesus Christ, Suffering | Tags: Christ, God, Jesus, Jesus Christ, New Testament, Suffering, Via Veritas Vita, Yahshua |
Salvation, trust and action in Jesus 1. Suffering covered by Peace Offering The Bible says there will be suffering and I have and will suffer. The Bible says I will be persecuted and I have and will be. The Bible says Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. If you want to get [...]
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Posted on August 5, 2011. Filed under: Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Suffering | Tags: Christ, Christendom and Christianity, God, Good News, Holy Spirit, Jesus, mortality, Religion and Spirituality, Son of God, Suffering |
Self inflicted misery to bear 9. Subject to worldly things We are subject to the worldly things and suffering because of our mortality and the consequences of the human pride that man wanted to do it on his own and could know it better than God the Creator. We cannot be certain what will take [...]
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Posted on August 2, 2011. Filed under: Being Christian, following Jesus Christ, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Suffering | Tags: children of God, Christendom and Christianity, correct, Epistle to the Hebrews, God, Guide, Holy Spirit, Jehovah, Jesus, Jews, loving God, punishment, righteousness, Son of God |
Self inflicted misery to bear 8. Pruning to strengthen us Lots of things which were not pleasant happened in this world. Many people had to suffer so much for nothing. We may be sure it has not been for nothing. No matter what happens we may not give up our hope which will be greatly [...]
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Posted on August 1, 2011. Filed under: Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Kingdom of God, Religion, Suffering | Tags: Creator deity, faith, God, God the Father, Good News, Gospel, Jehovah, Jesus, Sacrifice, Suffering |
Self inflicted misery to bear 7. Good news to our suffering As the apostles also made it clear to us we have the good news on which our faith should be based. Listening and believing in this gospel which is preached unto us we should have our foundation. If the gospel is fixed in our [...]
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Posted on July 29, 2011. Filed under: Life and Death, Suffering, Thought | Tags: Christ, Christ Jesus, Christendom and Christianity, Death, End Times, God, Jesus, punishment, Salvation, Times |
Self inflicted misery to bear 6. Paying by death The people Jesus brought to live had to die again. As long as the world did not come to face the End of the Times, the world had to pay for her sins by death. You could say that is the penalty God has given us [...]
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Posted on July 28, 2011. Filed under: Jesus Christ Jeshua the Messiah Jahushua, Suffering | Tags: blindness, Christ, Christendom and Christianity, God, healing, Jesus, Pharisee, Prophet, Sabbath, Shabbat |
Self inflicted misery to bear 5. A prophet without a hedge around him Though God loved Jesus He did not put hedge about him. Perhaps we can say God had blessed the work of his hands but God had not put a wall round him and no protection when Jesus was in need not to [...]
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Posted on July 24, 2011. Filed under: Jesus Christ Jeshua the Messiah Jahushua, Suffering | Tags: God, God the Father, Immortality, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Salvation, Son of God |
Self inflicted misery to bear 3. A man given to suffer for us About 2000 years ago a man named Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem in the land of Israel. His birth, mission, death and resurrection were foretold by the prophets of the Old Testament of the Bible and revealed to us [...]
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Posted on July 22, 2011. Filed under: Environment and Ecology, Suffering, World | Tags: Arnold Gundersen, contamination, customer, disease, Evil, Fukushima Prefecture, generation, Government of Japan, human life, Human Race, Japan, Life, natural law, nuclearpower, United States, weakness |
Self inflicted misery to bear 2. Weakness of human race Man’s neglect and misuse of his own life has corrupted the stream of human life itself, and left evils which fall on succeeding generations. These, again as part of natural law, may manifest themselves as hereditary weaknesses and tendencies to disease. The very stuff of [...]
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Posted on July 19, 2011. Filed under: Endtimes, Environment and Ecology, Suffering, World | Tags: anti-social behaviour, Belgium, Book of Job, Chernobyl, Education, Environment, European Union, everyday live, Flanders, Fukushima, God, Human, Job, Labour economics, litter, misery, Natural disaster, natural law, Poverty, Suffering, welfare, Welfare state |
Self inflicted misery to bear 1. The root by man For some the Book of Job offers no simple answer to the problem of suffering. But it should shed a light on how nobody can escape the problems of this world and shall be able to find himself confronted with misery at one or another [...]
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Posted on June 24, 2011. Filed under: Being Christian, following Jesus Christ, Bible Study and Bible Reading, Christendom and Christianity, Endtimes, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Suffering, World | Tags: Abrahamic covenant, Almighty, Anointed, answer from God, argument, Bible, Bildad, Book of Job, children of God, Christendom and Christianity, control, creation, Creator deity, crime, disappointment, Elihu, Eliphaz, Evil, God, God speaking, gods, Gods desire, Gods Law, Gods Plan, Gods Power, Gods Wil, Gods Word, hearing, hearing God, Holy Spirit, iniquity, Jehovah, Jesus, Job, Law of Christ, Life, Messiah, omnipotent, oppressed, pitfall, poor, Poverty theology, Pray, Prayer, pride, Prosperity theology, reflect, Religion and Spirituality, resurrection, righteous person, rightheous, Salvation, Satan, silence of God, Suffering, Theology, thinking straight, Thought, transgression, trap, trial, worshipping, Yeshua |
As Kevin Miller writes in his blog article about Job “Job is a book of tragedy, foolish counsel, mourning, but also great strength.” For us it can be counted as such a real romantic film: Job begins and ends happy and cheery, but in-between we get drama of high calibre. By the end of the very [...]
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Posted on June 23, 2011. Filed under: Bible Study and Bible Reading, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Satan and Evil, Suffering | Tags: Accuser, Adversary, Adversary of God, Age, Almighty, animal, answer from God, authority, Bible, Bildad, Book of Job, Books of the Bible, breath, counsel, courage, covenant, creation, Creator, Creator deity, Day of Jehovah, Death, Elihu, Eliphaz, Elohim, Evil, evildoers, failure, faith, forgiving, God, God speaking, God's character, godliness, Gods knowledge, Gods Word, good people, Holy Spirit, Human, iniquity, Jehovah, Job, judgement, knowing God, Knowledge, listening, living creature, Lord of lords, nature, Old Testament, oppressed, oppressor, patience, Prayer, religiosity, resurrection, rise, Satan, Seasons, silence of God, Sin, spirit, spirit of human, Suffering, temporarily situation, terror, time, understanding, ungodliness, wealth, weather, wickedness, Wisdom, Zophar |
In his concluding speech in chapter 31, Job did demand that God appear before him, and in a sense, it is somewhat surprising for Elihu to appear instead. But can a man command God to appear? Do we have the right or authority to demand the Most High to appear before us? Job’s concluding remarks [...]
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Posted on June 21, 2011. Filed under: Bible Study and Bible Reading, Endtimes, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Satan and Evil, Suffering | Tags: Adversary, Adversary of God, Age, Aish HaTorah, Almighty, Bible, blessing, Book of Job, Church, commandments, Commandments of God, compassion, control, courage, Death, Deuteronomic code, doom preachers, Elihu, Eliphaz, eternal, Evil, false teachers, friendship of God, friendship of people, God, God speaking, Gods Power, good deeds, grave, Hades, happiness, Holy Scriptures, Holy Spirit, Insight, Jehovah, Jesus, Job, Judeo-Christian, judgement, Kushner H.S., Law of God, limits, Mitzvah, mortal, Noah, old age, Old Testament, order, pain, penalisation, perish, Pneuma, popularity, Prayer, Religion and Spirituality, Satan, silence of God, Suffering, Ten Commandments, Theology, time, Torah, unrightheous, weakness, wealth, Will of God, Wisdom |
We can imagine that people get scared when they hear certain preachers talking as the three friends of Job. As the wife of a Southern Baptist pastor writes in her blog that one pastor saying that all the troubles which befell Job were his fault because he spoke forth fear into his life. That alleviated some [...]
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Posted on June 20, 2011. Filed under: Bible Study and Bible Reading, Endtimes, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Jesus Christ Jeshua the Messiah Jahushua, Kingdom of God, Satan and Evil, Suffering | Tags: Adversary, Advocate with the Father, Almighty, ancient teachings, answer from God, Bildad, blaming God, Book of Job, Comforter, Commandments of God, curse, cursing God, Day of Jehovah, Death, destruction, distress, earth, Eliphaz, Elohim, Evil, evildoers, fear, foolishness, future, God, Gods knowledge, Gods Law, Gods Power, Gods son, grave, Helper, inheritance, innocence, Jehovah, Job, judgement, justice, King Jehovah of hosts, Kingdom of God, kinsman-redeemer, living god, mediator, meek, Old Testament, pain, perish, perversity, problems, punishment, Ransom, Redeemer, repent, resurrection, rich, righteousness, sinner, Suffering, tradition, transgressor, treasure, understanding, ungodly, unrighteous, vindication, vindicator, wicked, Wisdom, Zophar |
In the previous chapters the rampant evil in the world was described by Job (Job 24:2-24) and we have heard the speeches of Job’s friends who got to accuse him of gaining his now lost wealth by robbing the poor, withholding sustenance from the hungry and even abusing the weaker ones like widows and orphans. [...]
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Posted on June 19, 2011. Filed under: Bible Study and Bible Reading, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Life and Death, Satan and Evil, Suffering | Tags: Adversary, Adversary of God, Almighty, bad people, benefits, blameless, blessing, boldness, Book of Job, commandments, corruption, council, Day of vengeance, dead, Death, deceiver, destruction, Ecclesiastes, Eliphaz, Evil, evildoers, exhaltation, fear, God, good people, grave, graveyard, hearken, hope, humble, humbleness, innocence, innocent, Job, judgement, Knowledge, Life, listening, Lord, mighty, offspring, Old Testament, omnipotent, poor, power, property, Psalms, Redeemer, reproof, reward, Sin, solution, truth, understanding, ungodly, unrighteousness, vengeance, vindication, wicked, Wisdom |
Job and his friends agreed that God is omnipotent, omniscient, has all the wisdom and strength, is just, and perfectly good. They could bring forwards that an omniscient being knows every way in which evils can come into existence and has the power to prevent that evil from coming into existence. God can just say [...]
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Posted on June 18, 2011. Filed under: Bible Study and Bible Reading, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Life and Death, Satan and Evil, Suffering | Tags: Adversary, Adversary of God, Almighty, Bildad, Book of Job, courage, dead, Death, deity, desire, distress, dying, Eliphaz, Evil, fear, God, God's character, grave, Hades, iniquity, injustice, Job, Life, mortal, mortality, Old Testament, omnibenevolent, omnipotent, perish, problems, prosper, righteous person, Salvation, Sin, sleep, strenght, Suffering, transgression, ungodly, Universal deity, unrighteous, vanity, wicked, Wisdom, wrath, wrong doing, Zophar |
Etymologically the name Job could be related to the Hebrew word for “enemy,” with reference to either Job’s attitude to God or his response to suffering. The name might also be a contracted form of “Where is my father?” In Fragments from the Book of Job #1: chapters 1-12 we could find the blameless and upright [...]
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Posted on June 17, 2011. Filed under: Bible Study and Bible Reading, Life and Death, Satan and Evil, Suffering | Tags: blameless, Book of Job, Command of God, confidence, Death, Devil, Eliphaz, endure, Evil, God, hell, hope, horror, innocence, Jehovah, Job, judgement, Knowledge, Life, Lord of lords, mortal, Old Testament, pain, power, Ransom, Religion and Spirituality, righteous person, Sin, sinner, Sovereign of all, strenght, Suffering, terror, transgressor, trembling, understanding, ungodly, unrighteous, weak, wicked, wickedness, Wisdom, worshipping, wrath |
Fragments from the story of Job or Jobab (Job 42:17) and its numerous exegeses attempting to address the problem of evil. (Highlights ours, in purpose for the study on suffering and Gods hand in it. But please take your translation at hand and read the full chapters.) Brenton Translation 1851 by Lancelot Brenton Job Chapters [...]
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Posted on June 16, 2011. Filed under: Endtimes, Holy Scriptures, News and Politics, Satan and Evil, Suffering, World | Tags: Accident, Allah, Atlantic Ocean, Belfast, Bible teaching, biodiversity, California, California Powder Works, caution, Chernobyl, Christendom and Christianity, civilisation, Creator, damage, destruction, Disaster, Disaster Relief and Recovery, ecological chaos, economy, Environment, fauna, fear, flora, Fukushima, God, Gujarat, history, Holy Scriptures, ignorance, India, Indonesia, Islam, Japan, Jews, Judaism, lifeboat, mankind, Maritime, massacre, memory, Mont Blanc, Mother Nature, Natural disaster, Natural Disasters and Hazards, nature, near-death experience, Nuclear disaster, Oakdale Pennsylvania, Ocean Liners, Philanthropy, Planet Earth, plant, political unrest, Qur'an, RMS Titanic, selfishness, Ship, Thorah, Titanic, Torah, tourism, tsunami, United States |
“The Might Niush!” says that recessions, bombardment in the news about people actually being bombarded in other parts of the world, he is feeling totally exhausted and having existential angst, with no reprieve in sight. Add to this troubled cauldron, one natural disaster after another and we have yet another a new term for our [...]
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Posted on June 15, 2011. Filed under: Environment and Ecology, Family, Satan and Evil, Suffering, World | Tags: Aid, attitude, Babylon, Belgium, civilization, creation, Creator, Disaster, earthquake, Evil, God, Human, Humankind, IPod, Japan, Jeremiah, Life, media, nature, Nuclear power, problems, protectionism, relief supplies, Suffering, sympton, technology, tsunami |
We cannot ignore what happens today and have to be conscious of what happened yesterday. We cannot remain isolated and detached from the world. Though, some people try to hide behind their cell phone or computer or television screen indulging in imaginative pictures. Today we have a lot of extraction and ways to exercise our [...]
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