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    Ravi Zacharias gave a talk about suffering where he discussed the story of Job and God's purposes. He mentioned the trilemma of God being all-powerful, all-loving, and the existence of evil. Zacharias also stated that suffering allows us to realize what is evil and avoid sin in order to be saved by God. The document discusses why we experience pain and suffering, and how it can strengthen our faith and lead us to follow God.

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    Ravi Zacharias gave a talk about suffering where he discussed the story of Job and God's purposes. He mentioned the trilemma of God being all-powerful, all-loving, and the existence of evil. Zacharias also stated that suffering allows us to realize what is evil and avoid sin in order to be saved by God. The document discusses why we experience pain and suffering, and how it can strengthen our faith and lead us to follow God.

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    Ravi Zacharias gave a talk about suffering where he discussed the story of Job and God's purposes. He mentioned the trilemma of God being all-powerful, all-loving, and the existence of evil. Zacharias also stated that suffering allows us to realize what is evil and avoid sin in order to be saved by God. The document discusses why we experience pain and suffering, and how it can strengthen our faith and lead us to follow God.

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    Ravi Zacharias gave a talk about suffering where he discussed the story of Job and God's purposes. He mentioned the trilemma of God being all-powerful, all-loving, and the existence of evil. Zacharias also stated that suffering allows us to realize what is evil and avoid sin in order to be saved by God. The document discusses why we experience pain and suffering, and how it can strengthen our faith and lead us to follow God.

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    The Freedom from Pain and Suffering

    Ravi Zacharias, an author and a Christian apologist, held a talk about


    suffering. He explained the story of Job, as well as Gods purpose a creator,
    designer, revealer, comforter, mediator, savior, strengthener, and restorer.
    He mentioned about the trilemma which consists of three assertions that
    God is all-powerful; God is all-loving; and evil is a reality. Also, he explained
    why we need to feel pain and how God can save us from this suffering.
    There is quote made by Zacharias that says be good and be blessed,
    be bad and be cursed. What does this mean? In doing something good, we,
    in turn receive a blessing or a prize as a reward. However, if we go against
    the good deed, we get punished. This punishment serves as our suffering.
    But why do we suffer? If God is all-loving and the loving thing to do is ease
    the pain of someone you love, why does he still make us suffer? If God is allpowerful and he could do whatever he pleases, then he could just take away
    all the suffering in the world. Yet evil and suffering is a huge part of human
    experience. This is the trilemma, as Zacharias said. But as Zacharias also
    stated, why couldnt it be a quintilemma, where the other two would say that
    God is all-wise and that God lives an eternity. If God is all-wise, then he there
    would be a rational explanation on why suffering is not removed. And if we
    consider the fact that God lives an eternity, then time would be a factor on
    understanding suffering. For instance, if we suffer today, maybe tomorrow
    we realize that God allowed this to happen in order for us to be better
    ourselves.
    If our purpose is to follow Gods ways and we go against our purpose,
    then it is a sin. Sin is a violation of purpose. As a punishment for this
    violation, we experience suffering. And together with suffering, we feel pain.
    The pain we feel is not only physical but emotional, mental, and spiritual as
    well. In my own understanding, pain is inflicted upon us so that we learn
    that we did something wrong to have experienced this. It is a manifestation
    that we have gone against our purpose. Pain and suffering make us realize
    what evil does. And by this realization, we learn to avoid committing sins
    again, hence leaning to God. Through this, God saves us from suffering. Once
    we are saved, our soul and faith are strengthened and restored.
    It is better to feel pain than not feel it at all. Some people cannot feel
    pain physically, which is dangerous because one could bleed to death
    without even knowing it. And some people cannot feel pain emotionally,
    which is also dangerous because one could keep on killing people without
    feeling bad about it. Pain is important because freedom from pain is one of
    an indication of whether or not something is beneficial.

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