an horse (The Greeks sieged Troy for many years without result. One day, they got an idea. They pretended to retreat, leaving a huge wooden horse, in which a number of Greek heroes had hidden themselves. The Trojans, who were too happy to reflect on the situation, brought the horse inside the city as a war trophy. In the following night, the Greeks came out and attacked the unsuspecting and celebrating Trojans, and finally conquered Troy), which has a common outlook and terrible things inside.
Lastly, sinners who don’t repent will die out. Unrepentant sin brings about “ the second death”(Revelation 20,14)
(《Xi Tong Shen Xue》
Chapter Three: Hester Prynne’s Resurrection --- From Suffering and Redemption to Salvation
Sins must be punished.Siners must be suffering. It is a startling fact that the whole life time of every human being includes a certain amount of suffering. All people suffer: rich or poor, smart or dumb, Christian or non-Christian. Suffering of some kind is part of God’s plan for everyone. Suffering can be defined as the lack of one or more of the things that constitute the perfect life. As we know, there are many things of this kind. Things related to one’s personal life, family life, social life, community life and national life; things like loved ones, friends, money, health, marriage, sex, job, etc. And when you lose one of these things that you enjoy, the result is suffering.
Suffering occurs by several means in human life, including the following:
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l Suffering of loss of health --- physical pain, fever, paralysis, deaf, blindness, mute, etc.
l Suffering of the lack of daily necessities --- food, clothing, shelter, etc.
l Suffering from the nature --- floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, storms, as well as freezing or hot weather, volcanoes and blizzards.
l Suffering from mental agony --- worry, sorrow, fear, anguish, jealousy, etc.
l Suffering of being treated unfairly by law, regulation, standard or by other people.
Everyone in this world is and must be suffering. You can find this opinion in The Imitation of Christ: Wherever you are, wherever you go, you are miserable unless you turn to God. So why be dismayed when things do not happen as you wish and desire? Is there anyone who has anything as he wishes? No--- neither I, nor you, nor any man on earth. There is no one in the world, be he Pope or king, who dosent suffer trial or anguish.(Chapter 22: Thoughts on the Misery of Man). But why all of us must be suffering? The reason is the original sin and crimes that people commit. And only through suffering can one get merit and learn experience.
However, suffering doesn’t prove that God is cruel. “He is good; his love endures for ever”(2 Chronicles,5:13) God makes people suffer not because He wants to see misfortune. Instead, suffering is God charity. We have stated before that sin is terrible. In fact, sufferings are brought about by sins, not God. S
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