- Suffering is Imsha Allah- Gods (PRE) determined Will

RLGN FINAL All Religions Flashcards by emmakate teachey

Hindu View on suffering

Suffering is equilibrium; balances samsara-karma. Solution is good karma, merit in Hinduism.
Samsara: all suffering, earthquake, disease, poverty, etc.

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Karma

eternal, universal, principle, operation, payday some/today/

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Dharma Varna Sharma

your (social caste/religious allotment/duty) is to virtuously live out your ashram good/bad position

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Personal Tragedy in Hindu is

fate. part of cosmic cycle so divinely sanctioned

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a seemingly innocent victim in Hindu with ‘bad circumstances’ needs to

eradicate bad karma from past

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Hope in hindu from suffering

reincarnation, oppurtunity to good in next/better life?

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Hindu APOL question

“if suffering and evil are not real, why do I feel pain and guilt?”

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Buddhism suffering

associative with existence, is MAYA! –temporary illusion, as we live in agnana/ignorance.

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Buddhism existence

noble truths 1-2 teach that life is painfully unsatisfactory. If living, you will suffer

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Expectations In Buddhism

selfish desires to attachment cause greed, hatred, pain.

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Enlightenment

mental process enables overcome craving/grasping

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Escapism

nirvana goal via 9-fold path rids karmic causes here and now

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“By oneself evil is done and it is oneself that suffers;

by oneself evil is not done and by oneself one become sure-Dhammapada

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Buddhism Question

isn’t the desire to get rid of all selfish desire also another desire?

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Judaism Suffering

suffering is a mystery, a result of human depravity. Human responsibility: free wills potential to fail; frailty> transgression.

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Divine Sovereignty in Judaism

holy/pure; no evil, righteous-just, merciful good

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Meaningful Judaism

yet mysterious, God in charge/control; retribution theorie

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Purposeful Judaism

punitive, instructive, purgative, corrective…. redemptive

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Eternal king

judge will vindicate, so we must exercise faith+works

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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

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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.”

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Islam Suffering

Suffering is Imsha Allah- Gods (PRE) determined Will

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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.

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Allah

unknowable, unquestionable cause; mover of all causes of pain

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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

1. Character of God 2. compassion of Christ 3. 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

Ephesians 1:7-8

Revelation 20:11-13

Which is the story of absolute submission to divine will

Islam

Realizing one’s true self and tapping into ultimate potential

humanism

Singular truth and militant spiritualism that builds community

Sikhism

proper well-ordered ethic

confucianism

devotion to God many paths

Hinduism

Islam priest/mediator

caliphs- guided or political leader

Shinto priest

Mikos- female priests

Sikhims priest

Kaur- female ordained ministers

Hajj

Islam-pilgirimage to Mecca

Amrit

baptism by sweet water- Sikhism

Dragon Boat festival

Confucianist holiday commemorating famous scholar. wards off evil spirits

Peach and blossom festival

Shinto

Daoism way of salvation

eternal way of path and power

Confucianism Salvation

respectable person of honor

ISlam Salvation

total submission, discipline action

Hindu Priest

Brahmans and Gurus

Buddhism Salvation

state of oblivion

Salvation in Judaism

tradition sacrifice, prayers, good works

Confucianism Salvation

good person of. honor and respectable

Hindu Salvation

find part that liberates you from wheel of disfortune

Daoism Founder

Lao Tzu

Hindu Founder

none

Zoroastrianism founder

Zarathustra

Judaism founder

Abraham/Moses

Shinto founder

none/amaterasu

Buddhism founder

Gautama Buddha; Siddhartha Gautama

Confucianism Founder

Confucius

Islam Founder

Muhammed

Sikhism founder

Guru Nanak

Islam Sacred text

Quran and Hadith

Buddhism Sacred text

Trippitakas- 3 baskets

Confucianism Sacred Text

Analects

Charismatic Muslims

Sufis

Hindnu Sacred text

Bhagavadgita and Vedas

daoism sacred text

dao-de-ching and the three caverns

Islam Festivals

Eid al-Fitr (fast breaking feast at the end of Ramadan), Eid al-Adha (feast at the end of the Haji), Mawlid (Muhammad's birthday)

5 pillars of Islam

Confession of Faith (Shahadah) Prayer (Salat) Fasting (Sawm) Almsgiving (Zakat) Pilgrimage (Haji)

Rosh Hashannah

Jewish New Year, believed to be the month in which God created the world, celebrated 10 months before Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur

The Day of Atonement, a period of repentance following Rosh Hashanah, Sabbath of Sabbaths

Sukkot (Jew)

Held every fall to commemorate the sheltering of the Israelites in the wilderness

Hannukah

Festival of Lights

Purim

Festival that commemorates the saving of the Jews from Haman, who sought to eliminate them

Pesach

Passover Festival, commemorates exodus from Egypt

Shauvot

originally a harvest festival, celebrates the giving of the Torah

Main modern subgroups of Judaism

Reformed Conservative Orthodox Reconstructionist

2 words to describe our contemporary culture

Post-modernity

loss of three A's

Absolutes, authority, accountability

Syncretism

salvation is in a mixture of different tolerant beliefs

Exclusivism

Salvation ONLY by conscious repentant faith in Christ

Inclusivism

salvation experienced without responding to God

Pluralism

salvation is found in various other religions traditions

Universalism

all humankind will be saved

entry point to ministry

from creation to tomb to cross

truth is suppressed, because of this we are slated for

judgement

God reveals himself through

self revelation