Just Like a Human

Throughout the end of the story of Job, Job realizes how mighty and powerful he is. He first started out wondering and questioning the reasons of God's acts along with his friends. But surprisingly, he never cursed God in any way (even after all the suffering). Later on, though, God reveals himself unto Job and shows his greatness and superiority. Job technically forgets all his subtleties and just assumes that God would have his own good reasons to do all his acts.

I, myself, don't have a specific religion. It's not that I don't believe in God. I just don't know whether I should. Just like Job, I always question myself. Since no one knows the exact answers to them, I can't decide what to believe in. I just want to sort of have everything clear before I know what I'm believing in.

Anyway, more questions arose in my mind while reading this story. Why is God so human-like in this story? God having control over humans is just like us having control over some kind of thing that we made (like robots for example). We know almost exactly how the robots would act if we did something to it, since we are its creators. But, we still try it out just for fun or to test it in some way. This is very similar to God testing humans. Not only that, but God also prefers some people (like Job) over other people:

"My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept." (Job 42:7)

It seems unfair to me since God is the one with the ability to change people's characteristics, and he still likes someone more than someone else.

I also noticed that Job (the "good guy") had faith in God because of fear, more than anything. Even in most of the other previous stories, the characters seemed to have praised and worshiped God because of fear, not love. Supposedly, humans are supposed to believe in Him by loving him. But in the story of Job, God doesn't really treat everyone equally (since he prefers some humans over others), and he showed his strength and superiority to them which caused them to sort of believe in God only because of the fear of his power (like Job's friends). But whatever. I can't question God if he exists.

As you can see, the book of Job has left me thinking. Therefore, it's an interesting book to read but only if you are actually paying close attention to it. So yes, it was fun.