Book Of Job
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Pain and suffering are problems in life that everyone wonders about. Why should a righteous person suffer? Why does God allow his own children to suffer? The questions quickly rise to mind and on the surface seem reasonable, but a closer look at them reveals that they convey a certain meaning. ....
Middle of paper
.... we not receive evil?"(2:10). Job believed that it was not his place to claim good as a
Right. In other words it was not legitimate for him to decide what God could and could not do.
But how can God be love, have all power, and still allow good people to suffer? Job was a righteous person. Job was more righteous than anyone, including his friends. Job was not suffering because he had sinned. He was suffering because he did not understand the meaning of suffering. Job was so virtuous a ....
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