Yeah god was kind of a dick to Job. For no reason either besides a bet with the devil. Talk about effed up.
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Testing Job's faith
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Because the devil bet him on it. Let's put Job through a series of nonsensical and cruel tests just so I can beat the devil! Suck it devil!
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God knew Job was faithful, and made sure that Job's life would be spared in the process.
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So it's okay to kill 8 other people and thousands of sheep and oxen just to prove a point?
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In the end he was rewarded "twicefold" for his faithfulness..
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So that replaces his sons and daughters and wife?
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Edited by Artemis007: 3/3/2016 5:17:37 PMBut not the lives of his family and he also was left basically destitute. No matter how you spin it god is pretty sadistic and cruel.
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Wasn't left destitute... He was rewarded "Twicefold" for his faithfulness
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How so? god murdered his whole family. Don't know if I could ever recover from something like that no matter the "twicefold" rewards.