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

Human Suffering

Introduction

***** experiences of life are sometimes happy and sometimes sad. We all have to face birth and death ***** each effects us with equal emotion. Two sides of the same coin some people ***** fond of saying that ********** 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 and planning our lives as ***** we are in control. Ho*****ver, a simple event, a small twist of fate ***** we spiral ********** chaos. Suffering and grief are then factors that allow humans to understand the complexities of life and in religious terms makes a man 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 ***** from ***** pain but how we perceive the ***** in context ***** our lives.

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When trying to understand suffering people must ***** a clear vision of spirituality. In Christianity, people believe that God is a spirit (John 4:24) [Baker 1985] and ***** the man ***** created in God's image (Gen. 1:35). Wakefield [1996] *****s that ***** ***** 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 ***** to *****olate his emotions ***** desires and envisage a more 'isolated' vision of life. Buddha went in***** the forest to meditate and Moses went to the mounta*****s. Whenever, humans want to clarify their conceptions of ***** life entails they have ***** first suffer. Suffering does not necessarily entail physical torture for humans; a lack of communication with others can take the form of suffering as well. For in ********** isolation they *****come free ***** material desires.

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

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

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