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'''Suffering''' is "physical or mental pain that a person or animal is feeling".<ref>[https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/suffering Suffering], Cambridge dictionary</ref> | '''Suffering''' is "physical or mental pain that a person or animal is feeling".<ref>[https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/suffering Suffering], Cambridge dictionary</ref> | ||
Revision as of 02:38, February 26, 2025
Christ on the Cross by Jacques Louis David.
Suffering is "physical or mental pain that a person or animal is feeling".[1]
Suffering and Christianity
The Bible is the best-selling book of all time.[2]
Between 5 to 7 billion Bibles have been published.
Between 5 to 7 billion Bibles have been published.
Saint Paul wrote: "And not only that, but we also boast in our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us." - Romans 5: 3-4 (NRSV)
Bible verses on suffering:
- Bible verses on suffering, Dailyverses.net
- Bible versus on suffering, Biblestudytools.com
- Suffering, Openbible.info
Articles:
- What Does the Bible Say about Suffering?, Christianity.com
- Called to Suffer, Ligonier Ministries
Suffering and Buddhism
(Sanskrit duḥkha), or pain in one sense, is the first of the Four Noble Truths.
Alternative Translations of the Sanskrit work "Duhkha":
- frustration
- stress (Jon Kabat-Zin)
See also
- Four Noble Truths
- Dependent origination: Interdependence
- Five Precepts
- Three Jewels: Buddha, Dharma, Sangha
- Refuge
- Bodhisattva - Buddha
- Hinduism: Upanishads and Vedas
- Yoga
- Ten Commandments of Judaism and Christianity
References
- ↑ Suffering, Cambridge dictionary
- ↑ The Bible is the best selling book of all time, Guinness Book of Word Record