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Featured 4-week “mini”- Course

The Book of Job

Léon Bonnat.  Job (oil on canvas), 1880.
Bonnat-Helleu Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bayonne, France.

Job is a good and righteous man.  God is just.  Yet, Job suffers terribly.  Why?

 That’s the perennial question, isn’t it?  If God is all-knowing and all-powerful, and if God is a just and loving god, how could he allow good and innocent people to suffer?  Any parent who loses a child; any husband or wife who loses a spouse in a senseless, violent traffic accident; any friend who watches a loved one waste away with a horrible illness, must ask:  Why?  And that’s the question Job poses . . . over and over again.  All three of Job’s friends address it:  Eliphaz, with the voice of experience; Bildad, with the voice of tradition; and Zophar, with the voice of religion.  All three friends agree that suffering comes from God, that God is just; therefore, Job must be guilty.  Yet, Job insists that he is innocent; therefore, God must be unjust.  None take the next step in the syllogism:  suffering comes from God; God is just; Job is innocent.  That alternative is unthinkable.

 And that alternative is exactly what we’ll explore in this magnificent, though deeply troubling, book!

Lesson 1

(A new lesson will be added each week through June!)