Book Of Job Evil Essay

The Book of Job probes the question of the problem of evil in the world. This book is one of the more philosophical books in the old testament. It has spiritual value, but it also has a universal philosophical value that touches on the problem of evil. The main character is Job who is an upstanding gentile man of his town. He has a family, a farm, and status in his town. One-day God and Satan are talking and Satan says Job only loves God because he is blessed with a good life. So as a challenge God lets Satan take away all the Job has to see if he will curse God. Satan kills his animals and family. Then he covers Job’s body with sores and Job loses his status. Yet Job does not curse God. Job finally cries out and curses the day he was born. God comes down and tells Job that he is God and Job is man. He tells Job that he cannot understand stand why suffering happens because as a human Job cannot understand something so complex.
The explanation of the problem of evil in the Book of Job has its strong points and weak points. The book of Job explains that God is not the creator of evil. However, for some reason in the world that God created the innocent suffer. Even though the innocent suffer in this live they are rewarded in the afterlives. On the other hand, in the Book of …show more content…
When Satan says the Job only praises God because of how well off Job is God disagrees. He accepts Satan’s challenge to see if Job will curse God when he loses everything. The important part of this is that God accepts the challenge to take away everything away from Job to see if he will curse God. However, the important part of this is that God does not punish Job himself. It is Satan who punishes Job, “The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger” (Job:1:12). This shows that God is not the creator of