Ep 240: Punishment, Temptation, Testing, or Consequence — What is Actually the Cause of Your Suffering?

In a follow-up to Episode 239's discussion of Sin, Suffering, and Death, Rafe pursues the question of the source of your suffering.  Is this certainty of life due to punishment?  Temptation?  Testing? or simple Consequence?  Rafe looks at each one of these and comes to the conclusion that it's not divine punishment; it's probably a combination of simple consequence of living here in this broken world magnified by Satan's temptation but then tempered by God not giving you more than you can handle.  Suffering will come; Death will come; just don't let them turn you to Sin.*****As always, you can reach the Buf at [email protected]*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!