"Hey people, The only reason you're feeling bad about losing your child is that you don't think properly. After all, Scripture says, '... as he thinketh in his heart, so he is.' So chin up. Your suffering at the loss of your child is just faithlessness."
Surely you would agree that a persons world-view would effect (to some degree at least) their suffering?
In the cold hard light of day,suffering (as in..."we do not despair as those who have no hope)at the loss of a child is faithlessness.
God is transforming us by the renewing of our minds so that we are able to stand in any circumstance.
God bless
Certainly I would agree. Someone once said he rejoiced in his sufferings (Col 1:24). It is important to me that he didn't say he wasn't suffering.
But the counter-thesis posed against mine was that suffering was the of having the wrong attitude, more or less, something like that. It was against that that I will argue vigorously. A 16 month old infant is terrified at the repeated jabs in the gut of a bout of myoclonic seizures and the parents are aching for her fear and their own? I dare you to tell the three of them it's because they thought life was painful, that their daughter's brain is in peril.