Suffering
Suffering is not necessarily a bad thing.
Some say we suffer to learn lessons. However, the Church finds this to be not likely, because if Eternity is real, we would have learned the lessons long ago. We may need to learn lessons for each life we live, however.
The Church asks:
- Would we really appreciate heaven without knowing what suffering is? A knowledge of suffering may be why we are here, to learn how to appreciate heaven.
- Perhaps we were simply curious, and asked to come here so we could learn what a spanking feels like, never having felt one before.
- Maybe we as souls were bored with eternity and having whatever we want, so we came here to forget about eternity, to create fake "endings" and to have
suffering vs. pleasure. In this scenario, we and God would be playing a cosmic game, the game of fun vs. eternal boredom. Perhaps this is God's gift to us, a
sort of heaven.
An acceptance of suffering may help ease suffering. When one is crying, to say in your mind "It is ok that I am grieving, I am ok" may help the sufferer more than fighting it and making themselves and their emotions "wrong." Some, even enjoy suffering as a part of life, and freely admit it.
Once one has learned enough suffering to remember it for a large part of eternity and be grateful for heaven, there may be no more need for suffering in this individual.
The Church believes suffering is quite possibly a part of the Game of Life that was given to us to bring us a loss of eternal boredom and a game to play, as stated above.
However, because suffering is a feeling that most beings do not enjoy, the World Church's stance is to attempt to alleviate as much of the suffering in the World as possible.
Some say we suffer to learn lessons. However, the Church finds this to be not likely, because if Eternity is real, we would have learned the lessons long ago. We may need to learn lessons for each life we live, however.
The Church asks:
- Would we really appreciate heaven without knowing what suffering is? A knowledge of suffering may be why we are here, to learn how to appreciate heaven.
- Perhaps we were simply curious, and asked to come here so we could learn what a spanking feels like, never having felt one before.
- Maybe we as souls were bored with eternity and having whatever we want, so we came here to forget about eternity, to create fake "endings" and to have
suffering vs. pleasure. In this scenario, we and God would be playing a cosmic game, the game of fun vs. eternal boredom. Perhaps this is God's gift to us, a
sort of heaven.
An acceptance of suffering may help ease suffering. When one is crying, to say in your mind "It is ok that I am grieving, I am ok" may help the sufferer more than fighting it and making themselves and their emotions "wrong." Some, even enjoy suffering as a part of life, and freely admit it.
Once one has learned enough suffering to remember it for a large part of eternity and be grateful for heaven, there may be no more need for suffering in this individual.
The Church believes suffering is quite possibly a part of the Game of Life that was given to us to bring us a loss of eternal boredom and a game to play, as stated above.
However, because suffering is a feeling that most beings do not enjoy, the World Church's stance is to attempt to alleviate as much of the suffering in the World as possible.