#THE SUFFERER AND THE WITNESS MEANING PLUS#

Christians should “offer up prayers and praises” through it all and hope for the reward that is our future home. Sometimes God tests, sometimes punishes, and sometimes allows “bad things to happen to good people” because He gave man free will, some choosing to do evil. Fortune and fame not necessarily a reward. Suffering is not necessarily a punishment. Stir a cesspit, and a foul stench arises stir a perfume, and a delightful fragrance ascends. This shows that what matters is the nature of the sufferer, not the nature of the sufferings. Thus the wicked, under pressure of affliction, execrate God and blaspheme the good, in the same affliction, offer up prayers and praises. In the same way, the violence which assails good men to test them, to cleanse, and purify them, effects in the wicked their condemnation, ruin, and annihilation. The fire which makes gold shine makes chaff smoke the same flail breaks up the straw, and clears the grain and oil is not mistaken for lees because both are forced out by the same press. Virtue and vice are not the same, even if they undergo the same torment.

Though the sufferings are the same, the sufferers remain different. This being so, when the good and the wicked suffer alike, the identity of their suffering does not mean that there is no difference between them.

Similarly in respect to good fortune if God did not grant it to some petitioners with manifest generosity, we should not suppose that these temporal blessings were His concern, while if He bestowed prosperity on all just for the sake of those rewards, and any service of Him would prove us not godly but rather greedy and covetous. The reviewer ultimately said that it was Rise Againsts best album since The Sufferer & the Witness.

#THE SUFFERER AND THE WITNESS MEANING PLUS#

For if punishment were obviously inflicted on every wrongdoing in this life, it would be supposed that nothing was reserved for the last judgement on the other hand, if God’s power never openly punished any sin in this world, there would be an end to belief in providence. Rise Against sorte leur plus grand album en carrière : The Sufferer and the Witness. The Sufferer & the Witness is the fourth album by American punk rock band Rise Against. However, it often happens that God shows more clearly His manner of working in the distribution of good and bad fortune. The Catholic understanding is that suffering merits good for our souls and can be a witness to others. Augustine’s view of suffering seems to be the one adopted by the Church early on, and one of the things that Christians struggle with today.

Why do Catholics believe there is any merit in suffering? Isn’t suffering just a punishment? If you have suffering doesn’t it mean you lack faith? What is the meaning of suffering?

The sufferer and the witness meaning