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“Suffering”

“Suffering” (Comparison of Suffering in Islam and Christianity) 1.       Introduction Suffering is a reality in human life and every religion has their answer of why people suffer. It can happen to all people whatever their religion or culture background. Most of every religion try to answer the question : Why there is  suffering in the world? What is the purpose of suffering? If the purpose of human life is to have a happy life, why does God (the Mighty Power) allow suffering? Suffering can lead people to know God, but it also can lead people to doubt about God and reject His truth. In daily life we see people suffer of loss, pain, sickness, disaster, afflicted, slaved, treated unjust, etc. How we explain about these reality? On this writing, I try to find out answer of the question about “why people suffer”, by seeing it in the perspective of Christianity and Islam about suffering. I try to limit my study focus only on some verses related to “Job” in Al-Quran. And I try t
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“God, Why?” (Reflection on Job 29-31)

“God, Why?” (Reflection on Job 29-31) Introduction Being forsaken is one of the terrible thing in our life. Nobody in the world wants to be thrust away and rejected, especially by our inner circle relation. And no body can ultimately survive if he is being forsaken by his God. The book of Job tells us about Job's struggles inside when he felt that he was forsaken by people and God. The calamity in his life make him left behind, helpless. He needed God's explanation, God's reason, God's purpose to understand what has happening. But still there was no answer. God was silence; he felt that God has forsaken him. This book help us to understand the fragile nature of human being and how he depend ultimately to God. Without God we can do nothing, without God we are nothing. Job cried out to God his deep feeling, his protests, and the agony that he felt. He poured out his feeling to God in lament. This help us to understand that Our God hear our prayer, our sorrow an
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Salvation Story

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1.        Penciptaan a.        Pada mulanya Allah menciptakan langit dan bumi (Kej 1:1; Yoh 1:1) b.       Allah melihat segala yang dijadikan-Nya itu sungguh amat baik (Kej 1:31) c.        Ada keteraturan, harmoni, damai sejahtera d.       Manusia diberkati dalam 5 area: 1.  Allah memberkati manusia; manusia diciptakan menurut gambar dan rupa Allah (Kej 1:26-27) 2.  Allah memberkati relasi manusia dengan sesamanya (Kej 1:27-28) 3.  Allah memberkati keluarga (Kej 1:27-28, 2:18) 4.  Allah memberkati pekerjaan (Kej 1: 27-28, 2:15) 5.  Allah memberkati alam semesta (Kej 1:31; 2:1-3) 2.        Manusia Jatuh ke dalam dosa a.        Dosa masuk ke dalam hidup manusia (Kej 3:6-7) b.       Dosa merusak relasi antara Allah dan manusia (Kej 3:8-11) c.        Dosa merusak relasi dalam keluarga (Kej 3:12,16; 4:1-8) d.       Manusia bersusah payah dalam pekerjaan (Kej 3:17-20) e.       Seluruh alam mengeluh (Kej 3:14, 17-18; Roma 8:19,22) 3.        Awal Resto
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Jehovah's Witnesses

 Jehovah's Witnesses Introduction The first time I read the Watch Tower booklet or magazine, I almost could not recognize that it is a cult. The teaching looked familiar with us because they draw the principles from the bible. It also appears as harmless, friendly, provide a beautiful pictures to illustrate their teaching. But when we draw closer to their teaching we will find some differences in their foundational teachings of Bible. Especially for ordinary Christians who were not familiar with their bible, they will easy to be confuse with the doctrines presented by Jehovah’s Witnesses. I remember of the book of Galatians where Paul remind Galatians church about some people who try to “turning you to a different gospel” (Gal 1:6), and “.. throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the Gospel of Christ” . It is the same case with Jehovah's witness. And as A Christian, we have to be ready to give our apologetics to encounter the teaching of Jehovah’s Witne
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