God and Satan gamble over the allegiance of Job , yet Satan gets the blame for Job's misery ?

Question

God placed Job in the hands of Satan on a dare , this does not sound like an infallable being to me .
Am I misinterpreting this event . If so please correct me .

Answer 1

I've never understood what the Job story was supposed to prove. That God's a sadist, and uses Satan as a henchman? How people find inspiration in this book, I don't understand.

Answer 2

I've always looked at it like this. God wasn't gambling anything. Our souls are not something God naturally owns. He just asks us for them. That in a nut shell is the story of Job to both us and Satan. Letting Satan do all of that to him (and I agree, the whole kids things does totally suck) was proving a point to us and Satan.

For Satan, there are those of us on earth that will stick to God no matter what. How many people today blame God for far less happening to them than Job?

For us, don't take what God has given you for granted. None of it is ours to begin with. When we lose something, we find out whether we were viewing it as ours, or ours to take care of until we have to give it back. Could Job have gotten that message with out his children dieing? I don't know. And I hope I'll not have to find out.

Was God making the decision to let Satan do this to Job a mistake (making Him fallible)? It would seem to me that if God had been wrong in His assessment of Job then He would have been wrong and that would have made Him fallible. But He wasn't.

Now, maybe instead of infallible you meant unjust or unmerciful. I can't say towards not getting the same kids back but, it would seem to me, unjust would be his not getting anything back. But he did plus some. Unmerciful...God never promised us that life would be all roses and never suck (to whatever level) for us here on earth. Just to keep the faith and things would be better on the other side.


Sorry for the long post. :-P It's something I've thought about too. As for Satan getting the blame...here's the cop-out answer. Satan inflicted the pain...God just didn't stop it.

Answer 3

God didn't gamble with Satan. He knew the results already before it even started. God is all-knowing. He just wanted to prove to Satan that he's a sucker for challenging God. If you read the whole story, God said, as long as you don't kill him. God is confident with Job's faithfulness. Thinking about it, I don't think I can do it. That's why I'm inspired by this story.

Answer 4

And why didn't God give Job back the wife and kids he lost, why did he give him others. What if he like THOSE people.