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.
suffering is a gracious gift of love from God.
Fucking gross. You’re in a death cult, wake up.
Also would still love to hear about god’s jealousy. Why would I worship a jealous god?
Edit: Nah, never mind. This conversation is over. I’m not going to attempt to rationalize with someone who thinks suffering “is a gracious gift of love from god”. Makes me want to fucking vomit.
Satan in this context is not “the most evil entity that has ever existed”, but The Accuser, his objective in the story is to convince God that humans don’t deserve any of the good things He gifts.
God’s point is that He will continue giving us life and good things even as we don’t deserve it.
