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The Suffering of Job
2. How does the book of Job explain human suffering and the human beings capacity to understand their own suffering? What coping strategies does the book offer if any? Do you think that there is any relevance to the story and can it be applicable to your own life? If so, how? And if not, why?
The book of Job explains human suffering as something that God allows or permits to happenthe purpose being that through their suffering they might demonstrate the continuation of their trust in and love for Him. The reasoning is that it is easy to love when everything is going ones way, which is what the devil says to God. The devil believes Job is only good because God has favored him with so much; he wants to test Joband God allows the devil to plague Job to prove that Job is just because he has put his faith and trust in God. The devil as much as asks, Who will be true to God if asked to suffer agonizing torments? The answer, of course, is Job: thus, Job is a prefiguring of Christ.
Jobs friends, however, do not see Jobs afflictions as anything but signs of the fact that God has cursed him. They accuse him in their own ways of being unfaithful to God, of having incurred his wrath, of his afflictions being a punishment. Job is insistent that he has done nothing to offend God, and neither does he curse God even though he loses everythinghis home, his family, and even his...…be crucified so that His love might be shown to all, and so that our redemption could be achieved. He allowed Job to suffer to show that he was just; and his story is recorded for all posterity to see in the Bible. Thus, we can apply the lesson of Job to our own lives: never to grumble when faced with suffering; never to curse God; never to be harsh with ourselves or with othersfor God knows the reasons and it is not our place to know all that God knows. But in humility if we accept what He sends us, we can be assured that He will reward usif not in this life then surely in the next. That is a positive lesson for allbut of course it does require some…
Book of Job provides some useful insights about the nature of man and God to people who find themselves asking one of the most ancient and common of human questions: "why do bad things happen to good people?" Both believers and nonbelievers often find themselves wondering at what seems to be the incredible randomness of horrific acts that occur to people who seem to be good, or innocent (like children,
Book Of Job and the Questions of Suffering The Book of Job and the Question of Suffering The religions of the ancient near East were mostly polytheistic. Its history spans more than two millennia, from the Bronze Age to the early Iron Age. There are various sub-religions that make up these religions of the ancient near east they include; Assyro-Babylonian religion, Canaanite religion, Egyptian religion, Minoan religion and many more. These religions
Book of Job - Biblical Allegory Job's tale is one of the most accessible Biblical allegories. An honorable, just, pious man loses everything: his ten children, his wife, his entire estate, and on top of it all is inflicted with a horrendous skin disease that leaves him crippled. All this was done as a challenge and a test of his faith. The Book of Job opens with a conversation between God
Book of Job There is a fair amount of controversy surrounding the book of Job along with various controversies about who wrote it. Some scholars maintain that Job did live in the time of Moses, and that the book was written by him; others disagree and maintain that the book was written by Elihu or Isaiah. Since so much of the book focuses on the idea of "wisdom" and comparable
Job The religious texts of the ancient Near East share core themes in common related to the theme of personal piety. Personal piety becomes a powerful, poignant theme in the Hebrew Bible, especially in the Book of Job. The story of Job is laden with lessons related to the nature of human suffering and the role it plays in the development of personal piety. Moreover, the nature of human suffering
Children are always perplexed when bad things happen to good people. "Mommy, why did Jerry get hit by a car? Why did daddy lose his job? Why did you get cancer?" When bad things happen to good people, we risk losing our faith in God, in the goodness of the world, and in our own power to create positive change. The Biblical story of Job is one of the most