Thursday, October 6, 2016

How book of Job is Similar and is different to other stories in the Old Testament

In class today we read the book of Job Part 1, this story is very similar to other stories that we have read in the Old Testament so far because it has to do with God wanting people to worship him and how he can be self centered because of how badly he wants people to love and worship him. One story form the Old Testament that supports this is The Sacrifice of Issac, God wants Abraham to prove himself to God by killing his son for a sacrifice to test his loyalty . In the book of Job God puts Job through torture (killing his kids, and animals) to test his loyalty as well. In Genesis 3 God tested Adam and Eve's loyalty by seeing if they would eat an apple that God specifically told them not to eat. There is a common theme here with God as a character which is he can be very self centered as showed In the stories from the Old Testament. The book of Job can be different from these stories. One example of this is in The Sacrifice of Issac God wanted Abraham to do something for him to prove his loyalty but in the book of Job God wants him to withstand a series of events made by God. In Genesis 3 God wanted to see if Adam and Eve were tolerant enough to stay away from the tree of knowledge, while in the book of Job God wanted to put Job to a test.

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