In examining a number of scriptures concerning suffering, I have a number of questions which I will post here in this blog and if I come to any answers to these questions before I die or the Internet gets banned, I will edit this entry to add the answers.
First question: Why did Jesus, when He was on earth, go about healing people only to tell them later that they must suffer for the kingdom?
The apostles, especially Paul, mention in many places how we must as Christians be ready to suffer for the cause and to identify with Christ in our sufferings. So, for my next question:
Why must so many of our Christian brothers and sisters around the world live miserable lives?
Third question: Why are American evangelical Christians so enamored with wanting to make sure that those suffering pain should continue to suffer without recourse to those remedies out there that might provide relief from pain?
And an unrelated question: Why do American Christians no longer desire the responsibility of Liberty, and make themselves tools of the overweening State?
Don't you think there is something wrong mentally with someone who rejoices that they got to suffer?
Anyway, I am not a very good Christian, because I don't like suffering and I want to think for myself. Maybe the Russian religious view is more correct than we want to admit; we should embrace suffering so that Christ will respect us (since He suffered the most).
But just asking these questions will get me branded as an infidel; oh well!
Judgment Day will come for ALL of us.....
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