Prove that God exists

[DélioPT]

sapphi_snake said:

DélioPT said:

 

"admittedly this story has a happy ending for Job..."
But this IS a big part of the meaning of the Book of Job. What i see in that book is no different from what i see in the life of everyone and Jesus Himself.
You make it seem that God was playing with the devil, when it`s not that. If God praised Job it was because He was happy for him and with him. The fact that he let the devil tempt him - and that the conversation is known - is for only one reason: God loves us so much that He doesn`t want to control us. So He allows for you to make the call on what you want.
The happy ending is just representative of the retribution for loving God.

The Book of Job is the sign to show people what our eyes can`t see: devil`s temptations and God`s love.

O_O God loves his worshippers so much that he's willing to allow the devil to wipe out one of his most loyal subject's family, just so he can prove how loyal that subject is and spite the devil? This has nothing to do with 'controling' anyone. It's about treating human beings as mere toys, with whom God can play with however he wants, including throwing them in the fireplace of flushing them down the toilet, if he feels like it.

And the story's ending is about as happy as a story praising domestic violence. Not to mention that it reduces human beings to mere replaceable objects: Job's family is killed, and at the end god gives Job a new family, as if god just accidentally broke Job's china set, and is replacing it with a new one (one of the lessons of the story being that human beings are interchangeable). This isn't love, this is sadism and tyranny.

Honestly, I never understood how christians ever had the nerve to accuse the Greeks of believing in 'immoral deities', considering what they worship.

But it is a question of free will (control or lack of it). Would you prefer God forcing you to love Him? God wants people on His side for the sake of loving Him, nothing else.
And God does care. God doesn`t care yet Jesus died so we could live with God forever... there`s a contradiction there. It`s not a question of replacing a china set but giving what would fulfill Job.
You are the one who sees people as things in this story.