... this to maintain his integrity but it was his integrity for his belief in God. God restores Job back to twice his former glory after his tribulation and test of his faith. His family and friends all gathered around to eat bread and share their sympathy and respects for Job after all the evil God had brought ... allowed to inflict more upon him yourself must have been such a triumphant moment for Satan. TO me an all powerful God, benevolent, loving, and the great forgiver of sin by man, is coerced into hurting Job. Satan really shows his power to influence God in these passages even thou...

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... children and friends; but in the large poetic bulk of the book, where Job and his friends investigate in minutest detail the ways a man may sin and thus deserve suffering, cultic matters are never once mentioned (115." This would have been the greatest defence for Job, one that should not have ... Job cannot know the mind of God, ironically Zophar does, e.g. that certain people are deceptive (11:11). He also believes that if Job would repudiate sin, his life would return to brighter than noon. Zophar falls into the same trap as Eliphaz and Bildad in defending the doctrine of retribution...

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... of Job, is similar to that of Abraham and his son, Isaac, as they are both put to trial in order to test their faithfulness to God. Even though this test is beyond logical understanding, reason becomes overridden by their steadfast belief in God, meaning, although God presented challenges that seemed unreasonable to his ... respected, god-fearing man who is very devout to his faith. There came a time when Satan approached God so that he may put Job to the test and prove to Him that his faithful servant was only loyal because of his abundance in material wealth. What seems incomprehensibl...

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... more than we love each other, in the case; God wants what is good for us and to make us happy. One may ask, does God test us with suffering? God did not necessarily test Job but allowed Satan to take everything away from him and making him very ill, to see what is Job's heart is made of. God allows evil ... suffering and receive many more blessings. Even though Job lost everything and was ill he did not turn his heart away from God, 'In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong' (Job 1:22). Suffering is a blessing, God does not just give one a light after darkness as he did...

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... existence of superior beings that possess the right and the power to transgress moral and written law to ultimately meet their means, eventually drives him to commit the crime and test his theory. After the crime, Raskolnikov is continually tortured by his conscience and realizes that he is not a superior being as he thought but rather a common simpleton - a realization that he ... you have defiled and then bow down to all the world and say to all men aloud, "I am a murderer!" Then God will send you life again [ ] Suffer and expiate your sin by it, that's what you must do" (388, 389). S...

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... in a society stand above the ordinary human and moral law. Based on his theory he believes that the murders he commits would make him a part of this high class. To test his thesis, he murders an old woman that is a greedy moneylender. He feels her death is no great loss to society because she preys upon the misery and poverty of ... , and the simplest power of reflection were failing him began to be an insufferable torture". He believed he needed to suffer greatly before he can find redemption from a life of sin. The first sign of Raskolnikov's suffering is his illness after the murder, ...

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... existence of superior beings that possess the right and the power to transgress moral and written law to ultimately meet their means, eventually drives him to commit the crime and test his theory. After the crime, Raskolnikov is continually tortured by his conscience and realizes that he is not a superior being as he thought but rather a common simpleton - a realization that he ... you have defiled and then bow down to all the world and say to all men aloud, "I am a murderer!" Then God will send you life again [ ] Suffer and expiate your sin by it, that's what you must do" (388, 389). S...

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... in a society stand above the ordinary human and moral law. Based on his theory he believes that the murders he commits would make him a part of this high class. To test his thesis, he murders an old woman that is a greedy moneylender. He feels her death is no great loss to society because she preys upon the misery and poverty of ... , and the simplest power of reflection were failing him began to be an insufferable torture". He believed he needed to suffer greatly before he can find redemption from a life of sin. The first sign of Raskolnikov's suffering is his illness after the murder, ...

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... important insights. I often ask myself what exactly gave Job the strength to make it through this suffering. Was it God alone? I think that much more came from Job's experience than a test with God. After Job had begun to be tested, "His wife said to him, "Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die!"" (2:9 NIV) This line really ... you do something wrong and you didn't know it was wrong? Like a child stealing candy in a candy store, at what point do you turn the table and consider the wrongdoing a sin? In Oedipus At Colonus, Oedipus ponders this same question. "Answer...

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