Tag Archives: Pain

Pain & Its Purpose: Part 2 – Divine Providence

Pain & Its Purpose: Part 2 – Divine Providence

By Carlos Pamplona In my last article I addressed the purpose of pain.  Here I will focus on the doctrine of divine providence, or simply God’s providence. What is divine providence? John Piper, in his book titled Providence, provides the following helpful description.  He notes, “the act of purposefully providing for, or sustaining and governing, […]

Pain & its Purpose

By Carlos Pamplona Why do we experience physical pain and how does pain serve us?  In what follows we will answer these questions. When Adam and Eve sinned, they brought about death, unrighteous anger, fear, sadness and worsening pain. Of these, we will focus on the intensifying pain wrought by our Edenic parents. No one […]

Pain & its Purpose