Essay - Human Suffering Introduction the Experiences of Life are Sometimes Happy...

Human Suffering

Introduction

The experiences of life are sometimes happy and sometimes sad. We all have to face birth and death and each effects us with equal emotion. Two sides of the same coin some people are fond of saying that without grief we would not know what true happiness is. Religious leaders suggest that in suffering ***** are able to perceive life more clearly and our priorities are ********** better categorized. Our routine life if satisfactory allows us to enter a cert*****in limbo where we start making assumptions ***** planning our lives as ***** we are in control. Ho*****ver, a simple event, a sm*****ll twist of fate and we spiral in***** chaos. ***** and grief are then factors that allow humans to understand the complexities of life and ***** religious terms makes a m*****n humble. The ***** clears ***** vision and clarifies the soul such that spiritual revelation is easier to comprehend.

Thesis

Suffering and isolation is a form of revelation. Its spiritual worth emerges not from ***** pain but how we perceive the pain in context ***** our lives.

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When trying to ***** suffering ***** must ***** a clear vision of *****ity. In Christianity, people believe that God is a spirit (John 4:24) [Baker 1985] ***** that the man is created in God's image (Gen. 1:35). Wakefield [1996] *****s that ***** people may recognize spirituality as responding and communing with God, animating their lives (p. 360) and helping man to reach super-sensible realities. (p. 361) This level ***** spirituality can be achieved only if the individual is able to isolate his emotions and desires and envisage a more 'isolated' vision of *****. Buddha went in***** ***** forest to meditate and Moses went to the mounta*****s. Whenever, hu*****s want ***** clarify ***** conceptions ***** what life entails they have to first suffer. Suffering does not necessarily entail physical torture for humans; a l*****ck of communication with others can take the ***** of *****ing as well. For in *****ir isolation they *****come free from material desires.

***** in essence suffering in religious ***** is ***** way of proving to humans that they lack control over their lives. Its a proof of ***** Higher being.

***** Deuteronomy 32:39, God says t***** about himself: "See now that I myself am He! There is no god be***** me. I put ***** death and I bring to life, I have wounded and ***** will heal, and no one ***** deliver out of my hand."(NIV) This authority ***** life is rooted in God's status as the Creator of all life. ***** Genesis 2:7, we are told, "God *****med man from the dust ***** the ground."(15)

Thousands of years later, Job, who suffered greatly in his ***** and found himself wrestling ***** its purpose and ***** purpose of suffering, commented: "In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind."(Job 12:10 NIV) These passages remind us ***** God is ***** one who decides when ***** comes. It is *****t our