“God is good to both the righteous and the unrighteous… A relationship between two people, such as husband and wife, is built on faith. Without that decision to believe and trust the other person, no amount of niceness will improve …
“A free person has no Lord. A free person is a lord to himself or herself. A free person obeys no one but himself. A free person is the opposite of a slave.”
Does the Bible at this point suggest that physical suffering is a path to perfection and sinlessness? Are we being told that if we suffer physically we will be done with sin? Is it possible to reach a point where …