Did Jehovah love Job?

VM44

If He did, then allowing Job to suffer is a strange way to show it!

Job's children were completely expendable, no love to them was shown at all!

breakfast of champions

If that's how god loves you, I'd hate to see how he hates someone!

A related question did he really love Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son? Those feelings before the moment were real. God's love means an understanding that your life, time and resources mean nothing next to supporting his great and holy name!

jgnat

Of course Jehovah loved Job. Didn't he replace said children twice over? I am sure Job's wife was pleased to comply.

fakesmile

of course he did! a 4000 yr. old book says so. remember when god lost a bet to his subordinate. lol. in context yes he did. as much as the prodigal sons father. imo, the text was a "good hebrew story". a lesson in humility, responsibility, forgiveness.

Glander

I always thought the Bible story of Job made Jehovah look like a cold hearted, egotistical father who had no real love for his children. To test them this way and let them suffer cannot be forgiven be some kind of chickenshit little bonus in Jobs pay envelope. A sick lesson in Old Testament/Taliban thinking.

WTWizard

Jehovah loves Jehovah, and no one else. Putting something like this in the LIE-ble allows Jehovah to make everyone suffer, giving him an example to dangle in front of people in lieu of really helping us.

King Solomon

Where's the Bible Thumping Brigade to tell everyone that we're interpreting it wrong? ;)

The irony of the Job account is when YHWH puts Job in his place, he uses 3,000 yr old cosmological science to do so (including references to the firmament, the great store houses of snow and hail, etc). Read it again, and understand that YHWH is not being "poetic", but simply ignorant over climatology. After all, the writers of the Job story didn't know what we know today about how the World operates; so they relied on the ideas from Egyptian and Babylonians for their 'science'.

still thinking

jgnat......did I detect a hint of sarcasm?...

"Ours is not to reason why. Ours is but to do and die", by Alfred Lord Tennyson

dgp

When I was a child, I had a friend who really loved his Tonka play truck, but that didn't mean he didn't destroy it.