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Originally Posted by Splendour
Do you mean kenosis?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosis
If that's what you mean then yes you're right. A man of God would give up all his worldly pleasures to be filled with the spirit of God and death would be preferable than missing out on that experience.
The explanations about Kenosis seem (to me) to be (to some extent) speculative. But it seems to me that you turn it in the right direction.
Let me say it very simple and very basic: What some ppl ignore to realize is that as soon as someone loses something, God gives him something else. For example: Someone loses his eyes, than there will come some ppl who help him.
And this is true for the world inside of a human too. Someone who suffers and learns to focus on surviving and doesn't give up his hope, he will instantly become a very strong human. It would be very interesting to ask a Mandela when he was stronger: before being 40 years long prisoned or afterwards?
And this continues: A man of God has experienced that the more he suffers and the more he gives up to follow the pleasuers of this world, the stronger, the happier, etc. he becomes.
Most ppl think that strong and happy ppl are those who drive a Mercedes. But this is not true, those children in Haiti who did see this and who will learn to survive, they will become much stronger and thus much happier than those children who grow up in a Mercedes.
And than there are some ppl who say, but so many ppl died and lost their parents or children...
Open your eyes, we are the next ones. No one has ever seen this world without losing his parents, children, his life, his health and everything else, no one (not even the prophets) can run away from this. It is only a matter of time when it will be our turn.
Last edited by shahrad; 02-15-2010 at 06:53 PM.