The Old Testament literally describes God with such petty human emotions as “jealousy,” and its behavior throughout the OT coincides with that.
If you don’t think that’s true, I urge you to read it again. Yahweh was a narcissistic, genocidal maniac. Literally, the first two commandments are about making sure nobody worships or acknowledges anyone but him. Just reeks of insecurity.
And whatever copium you need to accept the outright cruelty your so called “all -loving” god bestowed upon Job (and his family) in order to what, win a bet with the literal devil?
Fucking awful story with an awful message no matter how you spin it.
I remember feeling like I had to come up with all these little things to convince myself that whatever new aspect of reality i just learned about can still coexist with the claims of Christianity… Don’t miss it.
Zealous not jealous.
I went to theology seminary, no need for copium or spin. One of the professors’ favourite book was Job and he talked a lot about it.
That absolutely is not the nature of God in the OT, but explaining it doesn’t fit this medium. I also don’t know/remember any resources I could point you to, sorry.
Lol oh honey… Why not start in Exodus, and then check just about every book of the OT after that. It is like one of the most repeated things in the OT:
https://www.openbible.info/topics/god_is_a_jealous_god
5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
Ooof, imagine getting that in a text from your jilted ex… No thanks. Talk about petty.
Or did they accidentally replace every “z” with a “j” (even though it was a different language)?
We can get into a debate about theology if you’d like, but I believe based on your previous comment that it would be a mistake for you.
Job is very straightforward, and the message is straightforward. The problem is, the message completely ignores the real world consequences that befell a (supposedly) real man and his real family. We can completely ignore the fact that he was god’s most loyal follower (though it does make it more fucked up)…
I do not stand for a god that would put that kind of injustice onto a group of people just to prove a point to what we’re supposed to consider the most evil entity that has ever existed. Do you not see how absurd that is? You are defending the absolute destruction of a man and his family in order to defend concepts that you cannot even demonstrate are real.
Yes, languages and words and their meanings change with time, both words were once the same.
Job should be read from the perspective that humanity, by choosing to turn away from the source of all life and good, has only death and suffering as its just existence. Every moment that anyone has that is not death and suffering is a gracious gift of love from God. Job even acknowledges that all he had was not his, just loaned from God.
