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  2. Redemptive suffering - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Religious responses to the problem of evil - Wikipedia

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    Its verses 2.1.34 through 2.1.36 aphoristically mention a version of the problem of suffering and evil in the context of the abstract metaphysical Hindu concept of Brahman. [ 128 ] [ 129 ] The verse 2.1.34 of Brahma Sutras asserts that inequality and cruelty in the world cannot be attributed to the concept of Brahman , and this is in the Vedas ...

  4. Salvifici doloris - Wikipedia

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    Salvifici doloris ("redemptive suffering") is a February 1984 Apostolic letter by Pope John Paul II. Its theme was suffering in general in the light of the cross and salvific or redemptive suffering in particular. It was issued in connection with the 1983 Holy Jubilee Year of Redemption.

  5. Salvation in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    In Christianity, salvation (also called deliverance or redemption) is the saving of human beings from sin and its consequences [a] —which include death and separation from God—by Christ's death and resurrection, [1] and the justification entailed by this salvation.

  6. Discipline (instrument of penance) - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] Christians who use the discipline do so as a means of partaking in the mortification of the flesh to aid in the process of sanctification; [7] [8] they also "inflict agony on themselves in order to suffer as Christ and the martyrs suffered."

  7. Hell in Catholicism - Wikipedia

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    Please do not remove this message until conditions to do so are met. ( April 2024 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Hell in Catholicism is the "state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed" [ 1 ] which occurs by the refusal to repent of mortal sin before one's death, since mortal sin deprives one of ...

  8. Catholic guilt - Wikipedia

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    Catholic guilt is the reported excess guilt felt by Catholics and lapsed Catholics. [1] Guilt is remorse for having committed some offense or wrong, real or imagined. [ 2 ] It is related to, although distinguishable from, "shame", in that the former involves an awareness of causing injury to another, while the latter arises from the ...

  9. Christian views on sin - Wikipedia

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    Substantial branches of hamartiological understanding, including Catholic, [21] Presbyterian, [22] Continental Reformed, [23] and Reformed Baptist [24] subscribe to the doctrine of original sin, [25] which they believe Paul espouses in Romans 5:12–19 and which Augustine of Hippo popularized in Western Christianity and developed into a notion ...