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Making Sense of Destruction
New Creation The Yale Logos New Creation The Yale Logos

Making Sense of Destruction

December 31, 2021 | By Justin Ferrugia TD ‘23+1

Affliction plays a complicated role in the Christian worldview. We are naturally predisposed to fear it. Pain, suffering, and danger elicit some of the most profound physiological responses in all animals. Human beings, however, are unique in our ability to reason with, deeply understand, and rationally attempt to avoid affliction in our lives. The gift we possess to relate rationally to the world around us magnifies our ability to deeply understand and be impacted by our afflictions.

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God’s Suffering
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God’s Suffering

Nov. 8th, 2020 | Se Ri Lee MC ‘23+1

In my previous encounters with this verse from Isaiah 53, my thoughts had always dwelled on the word “suffer,” then shifted to pondering God’s inexplicable reason for allowing suffering a place in the world. This time, as I read over it, my eyes rested on the “him.” It suddenly occurred to me that God put Himself through suffering. It was God’s will for His Son Jesus (i.e. God Himself [1]) to suffer perhaps the greatest suffering of all time: death through torture, crucifixion on the cross. 

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