The Irrefutable Truth

In this last part of Job we see that although he accepts the as a human he truly knows nothing compared to God, accepts that the only thing he truly knows is that God is there. This is blind faith and although it can be good sometimes it can make it impossible for us to see the truth.

God make it clear that those who don’t believe in him will suffer but those who believe in him get rewarded like Job did. So in the end it might not truly be God we end up believe in him but take this faith as some sort of security that such bad things will happen to us. God tried to prove to us that he was all knowing and Job accepted this and continued to believe in him. The fact that he is all knowing makes his judgment unquestionable and in a certain way this makes the Bible unquestionable for it’s the word of God and therefore, it has to be true.

With the previous examples of the punishments that god gave to those that didn’t believe in him we find it impossible to those who heard about this religion not to join or at least not to leave it. Simply because eternal suffering was all that waited for them.

It was an aggressive religion but also it was similar to the Greeks in the sense that the Gods seemed more human than supernatural and that they punished all those that were against them. There wasn’t the message believed in me or die but those who didn’t respect the gods would suffer greatly.

Finally I would like to say that today is it possible to believe in something that bases itself on fear, almost like terrorism? Could Hitler be following this in the sense that those who didn’t believe in what he did and those who weren’t like him had to be exterminated? (Like the Philistines were constantly killed by the “armies of the living God”)