First Page
46
Last Page
52
Abstract
Though “blameless and upright” (Job 1:8), Job’s epic losses and pain exceed our human ability to imagine. The Apostle Paul’s sufferings nearly killed him several times (see II Cor 11:23-28, 12:7-10). Christ’s pain on the cross is incomprehensible. Other biblical notables suffered mentally and/ or emotionally: Jacob, Hannah, Saul, David, Elijah, Jeremiah, Daniel, and unnamed others whose maladies were healed by Jesus. But those records seem remote—in the distant past, so when you feel pain and your suffering lasts and lasts, blurring days into nights and making routine tasks difficult, what are you to do? Even brief shocks of pain hurt; memory of the experience is not easily forgotten.
Does the Bible offer any analgesic texts that function like aspirin to ease migraine headaches? Or has God simply left humans to “grin and bear it” as a curse of sin? This brief article summarizes the impact of pain and suffering on humans; in particular, Christians, and offers responses to this aspect of life.
Recommended Citation
Councell, Gary
(2024)
"Ellen G. White on Pain and Suffering Among Christians,"
Journal of Adventist Mission Studies:
Vol. 20:
No.
1, 46-52.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32597/1553-9881.1555
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/jams/vol20/iss1/7
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.32597/1553-9881.1555