There Is No God

The Book of Job Chapter 11-37


The faithful man that served God. The one who continued following even after loosing all his posessions and even all of his seven sons. Job, the man who sheved his head and tore up his clothes trying to accept death. And God left him to Satan.

It was cruel and heartless. The man had lost everything, his life, his sons, but he still lived. Even so, God, did not notice it was enough, instead, he let Satan have him, consume him in cruelty. Job adored God, God would destroy his house. Job still adored God, God would send him boils. Even so Job will continue adoring God "No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you".(Job 12:2). He did not curse God and die, as his wife had told him in the speech. Instead, he would continue scrathcing his old and boiled skin.

Through Job's story, I started having my doubts about God. I couldnt beleive that he was capable of doing this to a wealthy old man. He was wealthy, and he may fear God, but at least he was mercyful and would be far away from evil. I think it is better to love with fear than commiting deaths and crimes. God may be mad since Satan told him that Job served him with fear, but at least he wasnt evil. Who cares if he really loved him or not? There were plenty of human beings around to truly love him. "With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding".(Job 12:13). If God has counsel and understanding, why wouldnt he understand Job's situation?

I was petrified whil reading poor Job's fate, but what it made it hard to read were all this speeches. Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar made really long speeches, but sometimes they were very boring. It also made ne think that it looked more like a debate defending Job's situation. Even so, at the end, he ended up cursing God, and finally dying.

It would be so hard to continue believeing in God after such things. It makes me remember Night, when Elie was questioning God's existence. When he mentioned that when Adam and Eve ate the apple, God expulsed them form Eden, when God didnt like Noah's generation, he drowned them all, and with the Jews in the war. They would continue adoring him, even though they were all living in great suferring that their only hope now was death. They take their houses, kill their family, starve them, make them live in fear, until they curse God and die.It is like Job's story.