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Redemptive suffering is the Christian belief that human suffering, when accepted and offered up in union with the Passion of Jesus, can remit the just punishment for one's sins or for the sins of another, or for the other physical or spiritual needs of oneself or another.
After the innocent righteous suffer, the wicked confess their sin and accept the righteousness of the one they rejected. In Wisdom 2:13, the righteous is called "the servant of the Lord (παῖς κυρίου)" (c.f. Isa. 52:13 LXX).
In this verse, Jesus explains why it is right that He should be baptized. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him. The World English Bible translates the passage as: But Jesus, answering, said to him,
In the Hebrew writings, God is absolutely righteous, and only pure and sinless persons can approach him. [27] Reconciliation is achieved by an act of God, namely by his appointment of the sacrificial system, [ i ] or, in the prophetic view, "by the future Divine gift of a new covenant to replace the old covenant which sinful Israel has broken."
These "various solutions" to the why of suffering and other evils are delineated in the Bible's "responses" (James Crenshaw) [20] or "approaches" (Daniel J. Harrington) [21] or "answers" (Bart Ehrman) [22] to evil that these biblical scholars have identified. These scholars see a range of responses including punishment for sin, teaching or ...
He acknowledges the objection that if God is good and he saw how much suffering it would produce why would he do it. Lewis doesn’t know how to answer that type of question and says that that is not his objective, but only to conceive how goodness (assured on other grounds) and suffering are without contradiction.
Scripture therefore does not mention the persons of the persecutors, but only the cause of persecution, that you may learn to look, not by whom, but why you suffer. [5] Hilary of Poitiers: Thus, lastly, He includes those in the beatitude whose will is ready to suffer all things for Christ, who is our righteousness. For these then also is the ...
Possibly an over-simplification, one source says salvation can be achieved in the following manner: Live a holy and righteous life dedicated to Yahweh, the God of Creation. Fast, worship, and celebrate during the appropriate holidays. [9] By origin and nature, Judaism is an ethnic religion.