RE: Job
May 5, 2022 at 9:42 am
(This post was last modified: May 5, 2022 at 9:54 am by HappySkeptic.)
If the OP actually believes that demons do the bad things in the world (despite this not being biblical), I'm not sure there is much of a conversation to be had.
Job isn't history. It wasn't even meant to be literal. God didn't chat with Satan, and God didn't have a heart-to-heart with an actual person called Job.
It is a story meant to hash out the question - why is there evil in the world, and why does evil happen to good people just as much as bad people? It is pointed out that the unjust go unpunished, and the righteous die. All the injustice in the world, contradicting the idea of a Good God, are brought out. The arguments of the 3 friends and Job are meant to mirror the arguments that religious people have heard or said.
In the end, the answer is that God is all-powerful, and you can't understand the real reasons. The ending is crap, though I'm not sure what better answer a 3000-year-old story is going to give. The rest is actually a well crafted bit of philosophical questioning.
Job isn't history. It wasn't even meant to be literal. God didn't chat with Satan, and God didn't have a heart-to-heart with an actual person called Job.
It is a story meant to hash out the question - why is there evil in the world, and why does evil happen to good people just as much as bad people? It is pointed out that the unjust go unpunished, and the righteous die. All the injustice in the world, contradicting the idea of a Good God, are brought out. The arguments of the 3 friends and Job are meant to mirror the arguments that religious people have heard or said.
In the end, the answer is that God is all-powerful, and you can't understand the real reasons. The ending is crap, though I'm not sure what better answer a 3000-year-old story is going to give. The rest is actually a well crafted bit of philosophical questioning.
