Job: Almighty Vs. Job

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“Surely, God will not act wickedly, And the Almighty will not pervert justice.” JOB 34:12. Going to school at a Catholic school, I was always reminded of the fundamentals of our religion: three persons in one God (aka the Holy Trinity), do not question God, for God is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient, and lastly, God is just, or more generally God is good. In this excerpt from the book of Job, God’s graciousness and righteousness are questioned by Job, a man of the faith to whom justice has turned her harsh back. Eventually, Job comes to the understanding that he was being tested by God, he a pawn in a game between the Almighty and the Devil. Job, such as all Christians, is promised justice in the afterlife that would reflect his actions …show more content…
Purgatory is one of the biggest grey areas in the Bible, however it is a stage post mortem in which a human can redeem his or herself in the eyes of God, allowing them to spend eternity in peace and harmony along with Him. Many questions often arises about the system of judgement by which God governs: what about infants or people who have not been given the chance to prove themselves to God? What happens to those who commit suicide? Although suicide is considered self murder, a just God would have to be sympathetic to the situation, considering He created them with mental issues and placed them in an environment horrible enough to drive them to suicide. I like to think of purgatory as a second chance for those who either have killed themselves or died without a chance of …show more content…
God knew that creating us with free will was a risk, so he picked the world with least evil to put us in, for a world in which people are free to make their own decisions without influence evil cannot be nonexistent. This also answers the question of why there is so much evil in this world. Simply put, we have free will, therefore we created it. On a deeper level, evil is completely relative. Who knows what another world would look like. We could be living everyday plagued by pain and suffering far greater than what we experience now. We have no idea how terrible our lives could actually be. This solution also seems to be the only one that proposes a reason for nonmoral evil as well as moral. The idea that God put us in a world in which we are faced everyday with challenges that we must overcome in order to grow and evolve as humans. If we never had earthquakes, we would’ve never developed the technology or had the reason to explore the Earth to the core. There is also something more comforting about a world in which God is challenging you but instead of giving you a test, He is rooting for you to overcome, to evolve, and to

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