Abstract:Suffering knows no boundaries; everyone can experience various hardships, including believers. The presence of suffering often leads believers to forsake God, posing a problem addressed in this research. The method used in this study is literature research, where the first thing explained is the understanding of suffering for believers, followed by the search for the meaning of "thorn in the flesh" using hermeneutic exegetical approach. The objective of this research is to provide a strong foundation for belie… Show more
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.