Thursday, October 6, 2016

Book of Job comparison with other Old Testament stories

I think that God, through out the entire Old Testament, is characterized as a cruel and unforgiving person. This can be inferred because of the multiple instances where God commits terrible deeds just to see if someone is loyal. An example of Gods cruel personality is the Book of Job where God is put in a dilemma that Job is only worshiping God because of the blessings God gave him. So God decides to test this by torturing Job and seeing if he will curse God. So God kills Jobs entire family, all of his animals which takes a toll on Job, but he never loses faith. This shows that God is, for one thing cruel, but also not all-knowing. This is because if God was all-knowing he would know the answer to that question before he even asked it. Another instance includes the story of The Tower of Babel. In it, it talks about how God destroys Tower of Babel. This is because God veiwed this as a dementration of humans having as much power or even more power then God. This convinced him to destroy the tower and scatter the human race, maybe even out of fear.

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