Do You Have to Accept Your Suffering?

The christian story is predicated on the idea that if you voluntarily accept your suffering, you can simultaneously transcend it. It's also something that we have very good support for from psychological perspective. If i force you to accept a certain kind of challenge, body will go into emergency preparation mode and you'll become stressed. That stress will cause you physiological damage, including brain damage, if it's sustained for long enough. But if i present you with the same challenge an you acceptid voluntarily, your brain doesn't produce stress hormons, and completely different physiological systems kick in. And what that means is that people have evolved two modes for dealing with the unknown. One is voluntary approach, and