RLGN FINAL All Religions Flashcards
Hindu View on suffering
- Suffering is equilibrium; balances samsara-karma. Solution is good karma, merit in Hinduism.
Samsara: all suffering, earthquake, disease, poverty, etc.
Karma
eternal, universal, principle, operation, payday some/today/
Dharma Varna Sharma
your (social caste/religious allotment/duty) is to virtuously live out your ashram good/bad position
Personal Tragedy in Hindu is
fate. part of cosmic cycle so divinely sanctioned
a seemingly innocent victim in Hindu with ‘bad circumstances’ needs to
eradicate bad karma from past
Hope in hindu from suffering
reincarnation, oppurtunity to good in next/better life?
Hindu APOL question
“if suffering and evil are not real, why do I feel pain and guilt?”
Buddhism suffering
associative with existence, is MAYA! –temporary illusion, as we live in agnana/ignorance.
Buddhism existence
noble truths 1-2 teach that life is painfully unsatisfactory. If living, you will suffer
Expectations In Buddhism
selfish desires to attachment cause greed, hatred, pain.
Enlightenment
mental process enables overcome craving/grasping
Escapism
nirvana goal via 9-fold path rids karmic causes here and now
“By oneself evil is done and it is oneself that suffers;
by oneself evil is not done and by oneself one become sure-Dhammapada
Buddhism Question
isn’t the desire to get rid of all selfish desire also another desire?
Judaism Suffering
suffering is a mystery, a result of human depravity. Human responsibility: free wills potential to fail; frailty> transgression.
Divine Sovereignty in Judaism
holy/pure; no evil, righteous-just, merciful good
Meaningful Judaism
yet mysterious, God in charge/control; retribution theorie
Purposeful Judaism
punitive, instructive, purgative, corrective…. redemptive
Eternal king
judge will vindicate, so we must exercise faith+works
Tikkum Olam
olam repairing/renewing of Gods fallen earth, no suffering in new heaven; so don’t let it rob you of faith in YHWH- the Talmud
Judaism Question
“If it’s okay to ask WHY? Can I also find our when and how this problem of suffering is to be solved.”
Islam Suffering
- Suffering is Imsha Allah- Gods (PRE) determined Will
Islam Human Rebellion
: whatever the cause, opportunity to submit to Allah
“That’s why you need to remember to remember to prau 5 times a day etc. to avoid suffering by submitting.
Allah
unknowable, unquestionable cause; mover of all causes of pain
Cause of Pain/suffering Islam
The Satan/Ibis or jinn’s attack/afflict but permitted by Allah to test faith
Logical since from God infinite; leads to repentant prayer, good works
Muhammed ended forgiveness so he cant forgive sins but
Isa can
Islam question
“if the finger of the almighty did it, How can his hand save?”
Christianity suffering
grace/Charis that endures, love that overflows and power that overcomes
God that suffers with us but also for us
christianity suffering is not
merely pain, shows something is wrong, unnatural, immoral
Christianity Sovereignty
God not evils source or stain; in command/control and cares
Christianity affliction
part of our abandoned life, disrupted dehumanized relations
Christianity alienation
3 evils sin and God sickness and creation, separation etc.
Genesis 18;25
ar be it from you to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”
2 Peter 3:9
Gods will, he is not willing that any should perish but that all should perish that come to repentant faith. God did not create Hell for us, we choose to go to Hell, He has done everything to keep us out of it.
3 C’s in regards to children
- Character of God
- compassion of Christ
- Choices or Consequences
judgement is proportion to
amount of light you reject not sins you commit
2 Sam 12:22-23
While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Matthew 18:3-5