Central to Christianity is the belief that humans can be saved from sin and its consequences, including suffering and death, through the life, teachings, sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Christians have hope of eternal life with God and an incommensurable good that surpasses understanding. While suffering exists due to sin and natural evil, Christ has conquered death and promises ultimate victory over suffering for those who trust in him.
Central to Christianity is the belief that humans can be saved from sin and its consequences, including suffering and death, through the life, teachings, sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Christians have hope of eternal life with God and an incommensurable good that surpasses understanding. While suffering exists due to sin and natural evil, Christ has conquered death and promises ultimate victory over suffering for those who trust in him.
Central to Christianity is the belief that humans can be saved from sin and its consequences, including suffering and death, through the life, teachings, sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Christians have hope of eternal life with God and an incommensurable good that surpasses understanding. While suffering exists due to sin and natural evil, Christ has conquered death and promises ultimate victory over suffering for those who trust in him.
Central to Christianity is the belief that humans can be saved from sin and its consequences, including suffering and death, through the life, teachings, sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Christians have hope of eternal life with God and an incommensurable good that surpasses understanding. While suffering exists due to sin and natural evil, Christ has conquered death and promises ultimate victory over suffering for those who trust in him.
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CHRISTIAN
HUMAN CONDITION by
MARICRIS M. USITA A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament. Central to the Christian faith is the gospel, the teaching that humans have hope for salvation through the message and work of Jesus, and particularly, his atoning death on the cross. Christians also believe Jesus is the Messiah prophesied in the Hebrew Bible. Most Christians believe in the doctrine of the Trinity, a description of God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
This includes the
vast majority of churches in Christianity, although a minority is Non- Trinitarians. As the Christian sees things, God does not stand idly by, coolly observing the suffering of His creatures. He enters into and shares our suffering. He endures the anguish of seeing his son, the second person of the Trinity, consigned to the bitterly cruel and shameful death of the cross. Alvin Plantinga Sin, as distinct from physical evil, which is some form of suffering.
Evil because it is contrary to the will of God; Moral evil
is the result of any morally negative event caused by the intentional action or inaction of an agent, such as a person. When Adam and Eve first sinned in the garden (Gen. 3:6), they could hardly have imagined all the tragic consequences that would follow this single act of disobedience. Through this act, sin and death entered the world and the human condition was radically altered (Rom. 5:12-19). William Lane Craig has noted, “The terrible human evils in the world are testimony to man’s depravity in his state of spiritual alienation from God.” Natural Evil
Another reason why we suffer arises from
what philosophers and theologians call natural evil. Natural evil refers to all the causes of human pain and suffering which are not brought about by morally-responsible agents. This would include the pain and suffering arising from natural disasters like earthquakes, storms, as well as diseases like cancer. According to New Testament scholar Ben Witherington, Jesus’ miracles show him to be God’s special agent of blessing, healing, liberation, and salvation, as well as the “one who brings about the conditions associated with the final . . . dominion of God.” Ultimately, in the new heaven and new earth, which God will give to those who love Him, we are promised that there “will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away” (Rev. 21:4). Physical Death
Corinthians, described death as an “enemy” (1 Cor. 15:26). People fear death for any number of reasons. Some fear that the process of dying will be painful. Others dread the thought of leaving behind the ones they love. Some may fear that death is simply the end, that whatever joys and pleasures this life holds, death takes them away forever.
Christ conquered death
through his resurrection from the dead and all who put their trust in Him can share in his victory. The Weight of Glory Christian theologians sometimes describe the knowledge of God as “an incommensurable good.” God in an intimate, personal way is quite literally the greatest good that any created being can experience. It is an “incommensurable” or “immeasurable” good—a good so great that it surpasses our ability even to comprehend. The apostle Paul once prayed that the Ephesians might “know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge” (Eph. 3:19). The greatest hunger of the human heart is to know and experience the love and acceptance of God and to enjoy Him forever. Christ has dealt with the problems of sin, suffering, and death, He has also acted decisively to reconcile us to God.
Through faith in him,
anyone who wants can eventually experience “an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison” (2 Cor. 4:17). Jesus said: "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me.“ (John 14:6)
Christians believe that
salvation was made possible by the sacrificial death of Christ by crucifixion 2,000 years ago. "God became human so that humans might become God."
