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persons who have been helped to get over their problems expressing their gratitude saying ‘I cannot repay your debt even if I were to sacrifice my life for you’. Though identical in its dynamics, the offer of a lover of his life for the sake of his or her beloved, it appears dissimilar because the pleasure that is denied is generally base in its nature and we do not want to give life such a mean value, though in reality such a value is often conferred on life.
Life thus we find develops a meaning according to the crisis situation that may present itself to a person. However, the crisis situation may be real, physically, emotionally, psychologically, or spiritually. It is the promise of religion that it can help a person from the crisis of any kind that one may confront. However, it is the experience of a common man that such a promise was not kept always and the Biblical statement ‘Your faith is too weak. I tell you this (MATTHEW 17:20) is offered as an explanation. Such statements by themselves or with the additions of past miracles narrated do not generally convince a man who is really facing the problem. They are at best meaningless. But if a person is saved from a problem, or finds that another person has been really saved from his trouble
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