A Question to Christians

**Lemur** · 07-12-2009, 18:59

Nevertheless, Job is the most sustained meditation on injustice and horror befalling God-fearing people in the entire Bible. Nobody said that it needs to be easy to understand.

**CBR** · 07-12-2009, 19:03

That is true. At least us non-believers won't have to fear getting involved in such a bet.

CBR

**Samurai Waki** · 07-12-2009, 19:49

All we have to decide is what to do with the time given to us. I think she decided to spend her time well.

**Ice** · 07-12-2009, 20:08

After reading some of Job, god basically tortures a pious man just to prove to Satan that Job still loves god without his possessions.

What a loving guy.

God's answer underscores that Job shares the world with numerous powerful and remarkable creatures, creatures with lives and needs of their own, for whom God must provide, and the young of some hunger in a way that can only be satisfied by taking the lives of others

I'm a bit confused because I thought the reason he was being tortured was to a prove a point to Satan.

**Philippus Flavius Homovallumus** · 07-12-2009, 20:10

Originally Posted by Ice

After reading some of Job, god basically tortures a pious man just to prove to Satan that Job still loves god without his possessions.

What a loving guy.

I'm a bit confused because I thought the reason he was being tortured was to a prove a point to Satan.

The conversations in heaven are generally considered to be allegorical, to illustrate Job's piety. To suggest the human author had access to the minutes from the Court of Heaven is patently absurd.

**Mooks** · 07-12-2009, 21:04

Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla

The conversations in heaven are generally considered to be allegorical, to illustrate Job's piety. To suggest the human author had access to the minutes from the Court of Heaven is patently absurd.

So much a atheist like me could say to something like this....I wont though.

If the OP is genuinely looking for a answer, your probaly get several. Most likely they will be "God has a plan for all of us" or something like that.

**Hax** · 07-12-2009, 21:09

From a Buddhist point of view, death is temporary. I don't know whether it has the possibility of comforting you, but the cycle of life and death is something that keep occuring; think "re-incarnation". This is, as of the moment, impossible to check with scientific method, but this cycle can be broken and enlightenment achieved.

Perhaps she had done such; Kukai said that you need not be a monk or a Buddhist to achieve enlightenment, that it is possible for everyone in this life.