Arthur Dent, an English Puritan, reflects on salvation and recalls Job’s grim scenes of cruelty. Under feudal lords, the poor—farmers, laborers, widows—trembled and hid at their approach. One wonders: where do the poor still hide today? And can we be the sort whose voice, like in Job 29, brings them relief rather than dread?

#puritan #bookofjob #bible #oldpaths #heaven

The Book of Job in the Bible dives deep into this mystery. Job loses everything yet holds fast to faith, wrestling with God’s justice. A powerful read on resilience & divine mystery.

https://assemblybethesda.com/we-are-all-job-lessons-in-suffering-and-faith/

#BookOfJob #Faith #Suffering"

I've been slacking off on my extra-curricular reading the last few months. Got to
work on changing that.

Last night, I finally completed C. Fred Alford's "After the Holocaust: The Book of Job, Primo Levi, and the Path to Affliction"

It's a multi-disciplinary study on the themes within the Book of Job, testimony
from survivors of the Holocaust(in this case, specifically, Levi) within a
framework of psychology & Continental philosophy. A favored type of
'light' reading, for me. Good stuff.

While not terribly full of sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows, I did
manage to glimpse a few shards of light, and perhaps hope, as in this passage:

#Holocaust #Auschwitz #BookOfJob #BiblicalStudies #Philosophy #Suffering #Reading

There's no contradiction in MAGA "Christian" evangelicals worshiping Trump. He replicates exactly their Old Testament God: as Tennessee Williams put it, a senile delinquent, a decrepit bully who whines and blusters over the burnt offerings, who makes a bet with Satan that His servant Job won't curse Him if He lets Satan destroy Job's family and home.

Btw, Nietzsche got it wrong; God is not dead, but undead.

#Trump #MAGA #TrumpChristians #Zelensky #bookofjob

Since at least the Book of Job, religious thinkers have wrestled to reconcile the existence of a just deity with the continual success and prosperity of people like Elon Musk .

Image : William Blake -- 1793 -- Job's Tormentors (cropped) -- Engraving/Etching -- Wikimedia Commons -- Public domain

Go to the William Blake Archive for a full description of this print: https://blakearchive.org/work/esv

#Theodicy #BookofJob #ElonMusk #WilliamBlake #Art #BritishArt #Print

Shalom, friends! Come with me and my chevruta Geo on a deep dive study session for Bava Batra 16, discussing the Book of Job, God’s besties, and…um, SATAN!?!? (FYI: this is a longer video, so pop your popcorn and settle in!) 🍿#dafyomi #DafReactions #chevruta #talmud #torah #tanach #bookofjob

https://youtu.be/UqaNtG9xnt8

-- Job! Secular Bible Study (Episode 18) --
(from MindShift)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R38h5sTUYKA

#theology #theodicy #theism #apologetics #BookOfJob #God

I’m not especially religious.

But seeing how Good Omens episode 2 — #TheClue — is based on the #BookOfJob gives it a certain amount of depth

It turns the story of an angry god into one about a merciful #demon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdgBXJYZAMc

#review
#reviews
#TV #tvseries
#GoodOmens