Humans can suffer either physically for example feeling pain or mentally, such as grief.

Suffering in Hinduism is incorporated in their belief that everything exists within Brahman, they teach that suffering and evil become part of the diversity of the cosmos united in Brahman. They agree with Buddhism and say that suffering is brought by becoming attached to wealth and status. Suffering is seen as evidence of bad karma from previous lives in Samsara and is inevitably part of existence and not a problem for Hindu beliefs, as they can gain good karma again.

Buddhism teaches that suffering is usually caused by the way humans become attached to material objects and their status in life. Suffering in their religion is placed at the core of …show more content…
St Augustine was a Christian theologian and philosopher, her works greatly inspired Western philosophy and Christianity– she also developed the Augustinian theodicy.

The Augustinian theodicy is a theodicy that states evil is an absence of good and it has no power in its own right. It says that if creation doesn’t show its intention of glorifying God then it is different than what it was intended for. So since God is omnipotent, there should be no evil in the world. The Genesis story of Adam and Eve represents humanity rebelling, and Augustine believed that when humans rebel against the will of God that’s how evil entered the world.

Bishop Irenaeus was Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, he developed the Irenaean theory. He was an early church father and apologist, his writings formed the early development of Christian theology.

The Irenaean theodicy argues that humanity has been created in the image of God, but must now develop to be like God by themselves. The way that human beings meet the challenges of life is how we move on from immaturity to spiritual maturity. This theodicy believed that we have our own free will, so we can use that will to become children of God. We suffer to encourage growth, and to reach our spiritual destiny. Unlike the Augustinian theory that more concerns God being perfect, so the world should be perfect too– this theodicy focuses more on the development of humanity to become more God