Thursday, October 6, 2016

Comparing the book of job to other stories

The book of Job is very similar and different to other stories that we have read in the Old Testament. The book of Job is similar to the Sacrifice of Isaac. I think this because in both of these books they both make offerings to god, however in the Sacrifice of Isaac God wanted him to kill his son but he stops and has him kill a ram instead. But in the book of Job, Job loses everything he has his family, his animals, and lastly he loses his faith in God. God is a little unreasonable in both stories. In the Sacrifice of Isaac he is forcing Abraham to kill his own son. But even worse in the book of Job he killed or took away all of his animals and he had over like 20,000 animals. That is a lot of animals. Also he killed all of his family. God made the house collapse on them. Worst of all God did all of this because of a bet he made with Satan that said Job would never be unloyal to God. After all this somehow Job still thought that this was all for some reason and God had a bigger plan to killing his family and animals. However this story is different in some ways. Like in the Sacrifice of Isaac God wouldn't let Abraham kill his son so he sent an angel down to slop him. However in the book of Job I thought God would somehow just threaten Job and not actually kill all of his animals and his family. But he did and that made me think of God like a jerk while in the Sacrifice of Isaac I thought he was Isaac's savior and a good person to realize that nobody should have to kill their own son.

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