Job suffered severely
Wow, This brings back memories!
This was the story that got my parents to stop pushing me to get
baptized. They couldn’t explain to me Why?
The story of Job shows unequivocally, not only how the person who
wrote this story had some of the lowest moral principles, but the
entire culture of the time couldn’t distinguish the absurdity of a
Father allowing a relative, a friend, or a stranger, to inflict pain
and death to his own children.
Imagine if something like that happened in today’s modern world.
Imagine if someone approaches a Father, and that someone asks the
father of a son, and grandfather of many children, that if he allows
him to inflict punishment on his son, and grandchildren, he can prove
that his son only loves him because of what they can get out of him.
Now imagine the
Father says yes, and the stranger throws acid on the son, kills all
his children, and strips him of his livelihood.
Once the neighbors
find out, without a doubt they will call the police and arrest the
stranger and the Father, and
throw them both in prison or give them the death penalty, for
allowing such atrocity to be inflicted by this stranger to win a bet.
How about this other
scenario, A stranger or a relative, approaches a Father who is a
powerful king with many children who rules a huge empire and tells
him that he wants to prove that his children don’t love him. And he
can prove it by killing some, and torturing others.
How long do you
think it will take before the King executes this man? Probably
minutes.
Last scenario.
Someone approaches you and tells you that your children don’t love
you, and I can prove it if you allow me to kill some of your children
and torture others.
What would you do?
This story of Job
shows how low the moral standards of people living back then were.
They were literally sick in the mind. This is why it was no big deal
hearing the story of Lot handing off his daughters to a crowd to be
raped, or the man who handed out his concubine to a crowd of perverts
to rape her to death and then butcher her into twelve pieces and send
the pieces to the twelve tribes of Israel. This is in the last three
chapters of Judges.
This is one of the
main reasons why the women of Gen Z hate the bible. The way women
were treated in the OT is absurd and plain evil. And as more
Generations are born every year, more people are rejecting the bible
as the inspired word of God and concluding that it’s just a
collections of stories written by ignorant men who were just
reflecting the mores of their time.
At the rate
information is being spread throughout the earth via the internet,
and more people have access to the bible, I’d say in 100 year the
bible will become irrelevant world wide.
All a person has to
do is read the Bible a few times, and it becomes obvious that its a
creation of ignorant men of the past.
