Let's discuss the best book of the Bible.
Why didn't Job rebel against God? He made Job suffer for a bet. Was Job just scared of him? Why have fate in something so cruel?
Book of Job
David Johnson
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Zachary Davis
Because the lord giveth and he taketh away, so tuff shit, buddy.
Hunter Taylor
why?
Wyatt Harris
christians are moschists who don't beileve in justice or civility. Just torture and destruction
Hunter Harris
>why have faith in something so cruel
that's sort of the wrong question.
The devil believes more in God than the most devout christian, because he knows and fears his own torment.
The question is rather of his continued adherence to God's law, his perpetual refusal, not to deny God, but to denounce him.
The philosophy is not whether making Job suffer made god bad, but rather that Job trusted that God's trials were put upon him for good purpose. Job's faith in God transcended his personal experience, and the moral is that we should do the same. Our own suffering is little if you consider the experience of all others, and how in God's plan his word is brought to all through the actions, labors, and trials of his believers.
A long-shot of an argument, but one that could easily be made, is that the suffering of Job was immortalized and is an integral part in the very book that brings salvation to millions. Is that not worth one man's suffering?
As to whether Job was scared of God, yes, I think that was an integral part of the book. Even in his faithfulness Job receives a furious and terrible vision in which pages are spent laying out Job's puniness, insignificance, the scope of the world he lives in, and he is told to recognize his place.
Chase Morales
you don't get to define cruel or evil
Job, along with every other human, is deserving of hellfire.
Ryan Phillips
To the god of the chistians. Who was nailed to a cross and is dead
Noah Myers
>Is that not worth one man's suffering?
Easy to say from the safety of your room, user. Praise god, though
Hudson Adams
pardon? are you talking about Jesus
stop this rhetoric and just make your point
Jayden Lewis
He wasn't tortured for salvation. He was tortured for being christian. Just as the greek gods tortured those who worhsipped them