Essay on The Holy Bible - Suffering and The Book of Job -- Holy Bible

Suffering and The Book of Job Life is difficult. Suffering...is non an riddance to the hu cosmos moderate, it is the human condition (Gomes 405). The question of why life suffer be unjustly cruel is asked today and has been asked since the beginning of time. And where is God in the midst of hardship? Is He non-existent, as the pagan statement, Its Chance unaccompanied that moves and rules our lives implies (Neiman 442). Or is God only parti exclusivelyy in control of situations, as Harold Kushner concludes, writing, there are some things God does not control (462). Is all suffering a direct result of our own actions, as David Neiman offers (He who is suffering and believes in a God of justice, must also goddamn himself for his state of being (438). Moses Maimonides prefers to view the question by focusing not on the external life that surrounds us, but on the internal condition of the heart. He argues that good and evil have their own reward and punishments in wardly the spiritual realm and outward appearances are inconsequential (Behrens and Rosen 434). For those who believe in a God who is living and active and who believe in the sanctitude of the scriptures, the question of Gods justice in the Bible does seem a contradiction in terms at times. As Neiman observed, The Book of Proverbs presents a formula for life, promising blessings to the man who lives a moral life (436). But is The Book of Proverbs a accruement of promises or is it the wise mans observations of probabilities? One can see the unpleasant consequences of light choices, as well as the good fortunes of those who have lived a discase life, but sometimes this moral law breaks down. As Neiman states, experience has conduct men to realize that ... ...t out of self-interest (460). Love is not self-seeking. Love is illustrated by a mother who cares for her newborn baby and expects nothing in return. She continues to hit the sack and nurture, until the child is an adult, in anticipation of the beautiful person the child get out be. God wants us to anticipate the day when we will be do perfect, and trust His ways, like a child trusting its mother. Works Cited Behrens, Laurence, and Leonard J. Rosen, eds. typography and Reading Across the Curriculum. 7th ed. NewYork Longman, 2000. -Gomes, Peter. The Bible and Suffering. 400-405. - Kushner, Harold S. When Bad Things Happen to good People. 452-462. - MacLeisch, Archibald. God Has Need of Man. 474-480. - Neiman, David. An Introduction to Job 435-444. The Bible. Revised Standard Version. second ed. Dallas Melton, 1971.