martes, 28 de octubre de 2008

Being Faithful, Is It Worth It?

As I began to read Job, I was amazed by the perfect person he was. Even God admitted he was perfect. "8)...Hast you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?" (Job 1: 8). Job was a very good man, everything he did was good and he never disobeyed God or dared to criticize him. He was said to be very faithful, he had lots of faith in God. Even when very bad things happened to him, he didn't dare to say something bad about God even though it was His fault. Job always defended God no matter what, and he lived his life according to His teachings. Supposely, this is said to be good, if you do what God says, everything in your life will be perfefct. But, is this really true?
I kept on reading Job, and I found out something that amazed me. God was convinced by Satan (who is said to be his worst enemy) to act against Job. Even though Job was one of God's most faithful man, who was always good and perfect, Got allowed Satan to do terrible things to him, to act against him. "12) And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand" (Job 1:12). I thought to myself: How is it possible that God allows such thing to happen to his most faithful people? According to religions if one is faithful, God will always help him and take care of him. But, after reading this, how can we make sure that what religions say is true? Job was a faithful man, but still God allowed Satan to do bad things to him. So, what this kind of says is that if you are faithful, God will do terrible things to you in order to prove your faith. So, at the end I asked myself: Is being faithful really worth it?

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J. Tangen dijo...

This is the fundamental question, but where are the other entries?

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