[dsc]

"While Christians universally use such passages to promote the idea that human suffering is a virtue, I personally do not believe that is the intended meaning of these verses."

You keep posting on this subject, but I don't see that you are willing actually to address the central issues.

Many of us see where your logic leads you astray, and would be glad to tell you, but you don't have ears to hear.

[Hank Kerchief]

Many of us see where your logic leads you astray ...

Please, to not be reticent. No one is preventing you from presenting the truth.

If you deny that suffering is a virtue and know that, the purpose of Christ is, "that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly," (John 10:10) and that, the "living God, ... giveth us richly all things to enjoy," (1 Tim. 6:17) why do you not say so. Why do all these Christians defend the view that suffering is a virtue, then claim the article is wrong, since that is all the article says, that it is what Christians believe?

Hank