Bildad, one of Job’s three friends, suggests that God may use suffering as a means tokeep men from sin, to chastise, and to maintain a healthy degree of reverence before the Almighty.Group of answer choicesTrueFalse

How does suffering shape our understanding of ourselves, our relationships with others and with God?

Because the suffering of Christians can have a positive effect on outsiders (non-believers) Peter teaches that a Christian should always be ready with an answer (3:15). According to lecture, in what context should we understand this traditional encouragement to engage in apologetics?Group of answer choicesThe context of public honorThe intellectual contextThe context of StarbucksThe context of suffering

Can God be all loving while there is suffering in the world?

It is one of the four noble truths of Buddhism which entails that the source of a person’s suffering is not from theoutside but from within.A. Suffering can be extinguished B. Suffering is due to attachmentC. Life is suffering D. Practicing the Eightfold Path

1 Peter is largely about suffering and, from reading the text, Peter has three specific ideas about Christian suffering. Which of the following is not one of the ideas Peter shares concerning Christian suffering?Group of answer choicesSuffering leads to public honorSuffering is natural and to be expectedChristian suffering may have the possible affect of leading pagans to repentanceA Christian should suffer for doing what is right, not for doing what is wrong