Sunday, August 25, 2013

Consider 'Job' and suffering

Here is the classical argument: "How long will you say such things? Your words are a blustering wind. 3 Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?" And my own answer is,yes. There is no justice in the courts of the Divine, and certainly for those who suffer. If there is justice, it has something to do with humans. It is humans that hold those perpetrators accountable. These are the efforts of humans who fought the NAZI's and who with their lives, rescued the Jews. I do not see heavenly fires strike the guards at the concentration camps where Jews were burnt up. Nor is Hitler dead by lightning. These are possible attributes of the divine. Yet, there is none. In my humble experience, when I was on the Board of Prairie Bible Institute, the entire Bible Department was forced to resigned and the evil man who did this, the former president Ohlhauser thrived for a time. He was invincible. But in the end,he angered the entire town, for he suggested the school should be closed and move to another town. At the account of that, the entire town forced him out, he was not removed by god or gods. He was removed by men and his own action was his downfall. Throughout the entire scandal, I see no hands of god and this is one of the main reasons that I became deconverted. Gods are missing in human affairs. We are and we made what it is. So my own inquiry into Job strengthens my own disbelief that Gods and god are missing in human affairs. In Job, his questions are not answered. His plights are pitiful ad I would lay the blame on the author of this fictitious account, that he too has no answers to daily human sufferings. He has created this book to answer the questions of ageless human suffering but this human author fails at the answer at every turn.

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