Friday, October 7, 2016

The Book of Job, The Haulocost and More Violence

Wow. That's what I have to say about this article. I find this a very interesting tiling to be comparing to The Book of Job because of how well they compare. What happened in The Book of Job and this article are very similar. The author of the article also says something that directly relates to our studies of the Old Testament and The Book of Job."I think if God is so great and so powerful, he could have struck Hitler down before he killed so many Jews. That’s my feeling." This is exactly what we've been saying. If God is great and powerful, why can't he just se that Job is faithful and why can't he just end Hitler before he killed so many Jews. He has no reason to have to kill so many Jews or make Job's life a living hell. He also said "I really don’t understand my father’s faith. I don’t understand why he would risk his life in the camps for a God who had seemingly abandoned him. Nor do I understand my mother’s strange combination of faith and doubt. How she continued to observe the commandments of a God she could not forgive." This also directly compares to what we've been saying because as we see from this quote, both of his parents never gave up on God. Even though they were being tortured and eventually killed, they never gave up faith in God and they never stopped believing in him. Just life Job, his entire family, friends and animals were killed plus the fact that God tortured him, he never gave up on God and never stopped believing or being faithful. Even in the present day, we see how just about 70 years ago, God was still testing people's faith in violent ways.

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