“But
we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have
died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope” (1 Thess 4:13
NRSV).
When
I was a young minister, a person informed me that Christians do not grieve. He
said grief showed a lack of faith. He used this verse as his proof text, which
he quoted this way: “But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters,
about those who have died, so that you may not grieve.” It's amazing how we can
make the Bible say what we want by stopping where we like. Paul acknowledged
that Christians grieve the death of loved ones. However, Christian grief is
hope-saturated. It is not the hopeless grief borne by those outside of
Christ.
-- Craig Loscalzo
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