How could you relate the book of Job in the Bible to this question? Does this scripture help answer this question?
2007-09-14 18:57:32 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Let's imagine Job as someone who maybe doubted in the existence of God.
In the process he lost his wife, his children, his house, his fortune, his friends, almost his life and NO one would help him. That could pretty much ruin a person and make them want to stop experiencing life.
But Job was a believer in God, through all these trials he saw the greater good in the end of all his trials. He stayed true to God's word, he didn't go after and kill the people that killed his family, he didn't cheat or steal when his house and his fortune was gone. He didn't try to trick his friends into helping him...he trusted that the Lord would always provide.
He still thanked God for the clothes on his back and his life.
In the end of the story he was doubly blessed, he remarried, had twice the amount of kids he first had, had a bigger house and an even greater fortune and better friends.
Job became a better man, a blessed man, and the people he chose afterwards to be around him where even better for him. All made possible by his belief in the Lord.
I think this is part of the sifting of the good people versus the bad. The bad hearted and bad people will always chose the easy way out, they will steal and cheat and murder or commit illegal acts to get ahead quicker. It's always worse for the person that does this.
The good people will weigh out their circumstances until everything is restored to the way it was or until everything is even better. Those people will not cheat or steal or do anything that's against the norms or the law. They are and will forever be good people. Good people always have it in their hearts to be better people as well.
I think Job is a great example to us about enduring through our trials and trying to see the big picture, wherein we should not forget our God because he will doubly bless us when we pass our trials in life.
2007-09-14 19:24:21 · answer #1 · answered by CurlySue 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Fair is a moral concept, like justice. Only humans need morality, because only humans are conceptual beings that can do something about their actions: they have free will. Nature, however, has no consciousness, no soul, no conceptual brain and when it rains it isn't because a Guardian of the Universe is planning to make it happen. It's just the interaction of atmospheric conditions that causes rain, snow, wind, hurricanes, etc. Some people, good and bad alike, are in the path of disaster and get hit. Nature doesn't care who. If a supernatural consciousness existed, that would be responsible for what happens, then we could talk of a God that is fair or unfair, good or evil, moral or immoral. But there is no supernatural consciousness. There is only nature and reality.
Humans are capable of deciding whether they wish to do actions that improve life or make it worse. On this basis we have moral and immoral actions. Only our reasoning ability creates the necessity for a code of moral living. Animals do not need to know how to live by a code of morality. They do not have a conceptual brain so they follow their insticts.
Reason is the only faculty with which we can distinguish the real from the unreal, the good from the bad, the just from the unjust, the true from the false, and the moral from the immoral.
2007-09-15 02:15:32 · answer #2 · answered by DrEvol 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well there are a few things that people should realize. First and foremost, chaos and evil are not of God, Secondly God isn't here to save us from every little thing that comes along and yeah I know that sucks but it's true. If we didn't have a ceartin amount of trauma in our lives we would never develop or grow as people, and that has nothing to do with your religon, or denomination, it's just a fact of life. God isn't our personal maid service, and somtimes bad things do happen to good people, but if we can put aside our stubborn desire to blame God, and perhaps put the blame where it belongs on ourselves or the people that have quagmired our lives then we can begin to grow.
2007-09-16 04:48:27 · answer #3 · answered by Villain 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah, finally I can whip out the Peter Kreeft (crazy @sshole that he is). As he would say: 1. Who said people are good? 2. Who said things are bad? 3. Who are we to know god's will?
While I cannot use Job because I lent my bible out and it's not been returned, I can tell you this: sh!t happens. But if you can make the best of it, then it's all good. Sometimes bad things can be good things if you look closely.
2007-09-15 02:03:40 · answer #4 · answered by Rat 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To help us grow. If we are never faced with difficult things in life, there is no way we can grow or become better people. When faced with adversity, we can handle it two ways. We can break down and become frustrated, or we can learn from it and figure out how it can help us be better people. God has promised us that he will never give us anything we cannot handle. "Good" people seemingly face greater adversity because it takes more adversity to help them grow. They have strong spirits and are difficult to break. In order to keep growing, we must keep facing new challenges and learn to cope in new ways.
The more adversity we face the more opportunities we have to grow and learn and become stronger, happier people.
Job was a great man and Heavenly Father wanted to show Satan that His most faithful servants grow and learn in the face of adversity as opposed to becoming bitter and hateful. There is a great lesson to learn from this scripture.
2007-09-15 02:06:15 · answer #5 · answered by debrac28 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ecclesiastes 9:11 I returned to see under the sun that the swift do not have the race, nor the mighty ones the battle, nor do the wise also have the food, nor do the understanding ones also have the riches, nor do even those having knowledge have the favor; because time and unforeseen occurrence befall them all. 12 For man also does not know his time. Just like fishes that are being taken in an evil net, and like birds that are being taken in a trap, so the sons of men themselves are being ensnared at a calamitous time, when it falls upon them suddenly.
2007-09-15 02:00:19 · answer #6 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well I think that because they are too good and nice they get bad thing happen some time. Well I am nice guy and some time bad things happen to me but I don't com planet about it, because if u do good thing more each day it will be good and it will improve more and u put bad thing behind.
2007-09-15 02:07:09 · answer #7 · answered by historyman_of_sa 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is a good book on this question it's by Harold S.Kushner and its called "When bad things happen to good people" pretty creative title
2007-09-15 02:02:35 · answer #8 · answered by chocolateman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why should they not happen
how can you appreciate the weekend, without working the week.
how can you appreciate the sun, without the rain
how can you appreciate anything without the opposite
you find you were in love, when it rejects you
you learn by error, pain, discovering, hurt
if you dont, your not living
the post is wrong on your list, by zen, that God dont give a ****, maybe this person hates his/her self, and is blaming God
We all blame God sometimes.
You have to have balance to know balance.
If you never lost a game, how would you improve your game.
Next time your in the hospital, appreciate the health you have over the sick friend your visiting.
2007-09-15 02:16:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's called life. The book of Job in the bible doesn't matter one iota in the grand scheme of things. Good things happen to bad people and good people like. Same with bad things. It is what it is.
2007-09-15 02:00:38 · answer #10 · answered by Rogue Scrapbooker 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋