{"id":6392,"date":"2019-04-02T12:12:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T16:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6392"},"modified":"2019-04-02T07:16:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T11:16:23","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-god-and-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6392","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Paisios on God and Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"16cdk\" data-offset-key=\"208j2-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"208j2-0-0\">\u201cHow can God allow for such a harsh thing to happen? Doesn\u2019t God feel pain &#8211; God\u2019s pain for the people who are suffering from ill nesses, from demons, from barbarians and so forth is also full of joy over the heavenly reward He has prepared for them. By keeping in mind the reward that awaits those who endure tribulations and knowing what is there for them in the other life, God is able to \u201cendure\u201d this pain He allowed Herod to do so much evil\u2026The more the child was tortured, the more God was pained, but He was also aware of the great glory awaiting them in Heaven. He could rejoice for these little angels, who would make up His order of angelic martyrs. Angels from martyrs!\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"16cdk\" data-offset-key=\"4ftd2-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4ftd2-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4ftd2-0-0\"> &#8211; &#8216;Family Life&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"4ftd2-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6393\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ma-300x211.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ma-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ma.png 454w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHow can God allow for such a harsh thing to happen? Doesn\u2019t God feel pain &#8211; God\u2019s pain for the people who are suffering from ill nesses, from demons, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6394,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392\/revisions\/6394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}