Im not the only person who loved the wifely tribute in proverbs 31. Visit this site to view freethought today online, starting with 2018. There is no indication at all that job s children and servants were good followers of god. Satan makes the wager that if job were to suffer, he would not be so loyal, pious and faithful. The book of job ive only read the first 4 chapters so far can teach at least some of us different things. Now there was a day when the sons the angels of god came to present themselves before the lord, and satan the adversary and accuser also came among them. The book of job begins with a prologue job 12, which describes a wager between satan and god, in which satan the adversary bets god that job a particularly pious manwill abandon his piety and curse god if all his wealth and wellbeing are taken away. The entire saga of job and his family and friends was planned beforehand by god, and he just used satan as an active participant and the chief antagonist. In a childrens bible story book called the action bible david c. Many readers wrote to tell me its one of their favorite bible passages, and. Cook, 2010, the story of job is entitled gods wager. Was it unfair for god to allow job to suffer over what was basically an argument between god and satan. Analysis this is a key passage for setting the stage for all that follows.
Job 14 flesh out a basic doctrinal understanding of satan. On the passion of christ and the book of job serbian orthodox. Job gives us insights into his character, his purposes, his tactics, and his goals. I was at first startled, then disturbed, by that twoword title.
Its possible that god sometimes does things to show us things, even if he already knew the outcome he knows all, we dont. Did job suffer because god was having a bet with satan. In it, god brags to satan about the devotion of job, an upright and virtuous man. A surface reading of the book of job usually evokes a reaction such as why is god making a bet with the devil. The strange conversation between god and the satan figure in job 12 is often misunderstood in a way that derails readers from comprehending the main ideas of the book. If everything goes well, then there is no reason to doubt god, to distrust and to leave your faith. God probably knew what would happen beforehand, so i would probably not call it a bet with satan. There is one particular challenge that modern readers face when reading the book of job, and thats the narrative introduction that gets the story moving.
The doctrine of satan in job chronological bible teaching. The bet the bibles book of job is one of the most difficult for religious apologists to explain. It tells us about the interrelationship between god and man, just as do all the other old testament books. In the book of job, how was it possible for god and satan. One day the angels came to present themselves before the lord, and satan also came with them. Well, god says, lets see, and he gives satan permission to ruin jobs life. Now, there was a righteous hebrew in the land of uz named job. The 10 worst old testament verses by dan barker freedom from.
The book that gives us the most information about the devil in the old testament, however, is the book of job. The most popular bible verses from job found 1,070 verses job 1. Because god is about to challenge the devil with jobs obedience and faith. Job is going to be immiserated, sealed into sorrowfor a.
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