Thursday, October 6, 2016

The Book of Job vs. The Story of Abraham and Isaac


In both The Book of Job and the story of Abraham and Isaac God was cruel and insecure. In the story of Abraham and Isaac God told Abraham to sacrifice his own son to prove how faithful he was to God, this was cruel of God because Abraham loved his son very much and Abraham never sinned or did anything bad towards God. God did this because he was insecure and he wanted to see how much Abraham loved him. In The Book of Job God was cruel towards Job and punished him and did all these bad things to him even though Job never sinned or ever did anything wrong because he wanted to see if Satan was right. Satan said that Job only loved God because God was never cruel to him. Satan told God to punish Job to see if he would sin in Gods face. So this is what God does. In both stories God took an almost perfect man who never did anything wrong and put him to the test to see how much they loved him. God was a little bit nicer in the story of Abraham and Isaac than in the story of Job because in the story of Abraham and Isaac God only told him to sacrifice his son but didn't let him go through with it but in the story of Job God continued to make Job suffer and suffer until he cursed the day he was born.

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