Was God Just Playing A Practical Joke On Job?

[wastedmermaid]

That nikka job and his life/family was just collateral between two spirit beings having a betting match on Jobs faith

 

[ThatTruth777]

thought title said JBO for a second

 

[TL15]

Imagine your parents making you go through a ridiculously tough and avoidable life so that you can prove your devotion and love to them

 

[Monsanto]

Imagine your parents making you go through a ridiculously tough and avoidable life so that you can prove your devotion and love to them

Isn't that what families who bring children into the world without an inheritance do?

And by inheritance I mean, teaching their history, having them operate in a business that benefits the family and community, educating them to return their intelligence to the family and community.

People raise their children without these things and still love them so...

 

[TL15]

Isn't that what families who bring children into the world without an inheritance do?

And by inheritance I mean, teaching their history, having them operate in a business that benefits the family and community, educating them to return their intelligence to the family and community.

People raise their children without these things and still love them so...

no.

I don’t have an inheritance.

But my mom didn’t put me in ridiculously avoidable situations of varying danger and grief… ON PURPOSE… with the sole purpose of me proving my undying devotion to her

God puts people through tests to strengthen their belief. Imagine your mom cutting the brakes on your car so that you would worship her

 

[Aviso]

Each story in the Bible is merely a guide on how to keep the right mindset through various situations. In the story of Job, the devil represents adversity; the story is showing us that even a blessed man like Job can experience adverse situations as a result of negative thoughts. However, when you get in tune with the God presence that works in and through us, you realize that life only requires patience and trust in God alone. It can be called an awakening or a new image of one’s self and worth in God! Once you experience that level of faith, you’ll overcome all obstacles and receive an even better blessing like Job did. To summarize, keep your minds centered on the God presence in you, not the illusion of fear, hate, doubt, etc.

 

[I AM WE ARE]

no.

I don’t have an inheritance.

But my mom didn’t put me in ridiculously avoidable situations of varying danger and grief… ON PURPOSE… with the sole purpose of me proving my undying devotion to her

God puts people through tests to strengthen their belief. Imagine your mom cutting the brakes on your car so that you would worship her

I laughed way too hard at this


Good luck explaining that to the courts, DCS, your other family members

 

[Dad]

Family: dead
Wealth: gone
Health: compromised

How could you possibly interpret this as a joke?

Look up the definition of a practical joke

 

[Dad]

Isnt it a sin to claim to knoe His will? Dangerous thread.

No. That’s part of the reason why the Bible and other holy books exist

 

[Dad]

if you read the Book of Job, God Himself appears to Job and answers this in chapters 38-41

A quick summary: God is vastly superior to man and it is not man's place to question the justness of God in order to discredit Him

Job questioned God…even Jesus questioned God

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

My dumbass read the title at least 5 times before I got this was a religious thread
I’m like
What practical joke could God play on the Job
As you where

 

[invincible1914]

Punish your creations brehs

It was the devil that attacked Job. God allowed it, but he gave him back twice what he had before.

 

[MMS]

It was the devil that attacked Job. God allowed it, but he gave him back twice what he had before.

Jonah 8-11

8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.

10 Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?