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God makes bets with the devil based on Job's devotion. How does an all loving God agree to ruin a man's life and murder his family to prove something to Satan?

2007-03-14 14:03:22 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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First, it was no bet to begin with.
Second, God knew he could trust Job with the trial. Faith that cannot be tested is not much faith at all.

1Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

Gold fears no fire!

2007-03-14 14:14:27 · answer #1 · answered by Preacher 4 · 0 0

I don't think that was God's intention. God allowed the devil to tempt Job, just like he allows the devil to tempt us. It ultimately proved how faithful Job was, not to God because He already knew, and not to the devil because God doesn't answer to the devil, but to Job himself. In the end Job was blessed for being faithful beyond what we can imagine, and God will bless us for our faithfulness too.

2007-03-14 21:08:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

God uses the devil to test Job in order that Job might be proven faithful. If God tests someone in this way, he isn't doing anything that he can't undo. If God takes something from someone, its not something that he can't restore. Ultimately, God restored all that Job lost (if you object that God didn't restore Job's sons and daughters that had died, remember the afterlife).

2007-03-14 21:12:45 · answer #3 · answered by Steve 3 · 0 0

Yeah I never really got that. But at least he gave Job more stuff he had before after it was over.

2007-03-14 21:11:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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