Theology Of Suffering

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Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the issue of trust by connecting it to the story of Job. I do feel the same like you that it is essential we as Christians have a solid grasp of a theology of suffering. In fact, to understand the theology of suffering will make us understand better the reason that made Jesus has to died on the cross. Every time people talk about suffering, they always seeing that as the time where God is far from them because they think God does not care about their life and allows the suffering to come into their life. However, through the story of Job, we were able to see the amount of attention that God puts to every process that Job went through in his life. It seems like when Job was going through the suffering, God

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