I have, repeatedly, though it’s currently been a hair. How I remember it, Satan went to God and asked permission to test Job, and it was granted.
Wikipedia says the same as I remember.
God removed Job’s protection and gave the angel permission to take Job’s wealth, children, and physical health, yet Job refused to curse God. Job was eventually healed and restored to an even wealthier state.
God didn't allow Satan to destroy Job, He allowed Satan to strip Job. At the beginning, Job relied on his integrity. He thought he was pretty good. Also, he had a commercial principle. If you are righteous, God will bless you. If you are not, God will punish you. That's what he preached to his friends. So, when they saw that he was suffering, they were sure that he had done something wrong. He knew he was righteous, so he didn't understand why he was suffering. The answer wasn't given until the apostle Paul, who counted all the things he had thought were benefits, as rubbish, that he might gain Christ (Pp. 3:8). At the end of Job, God revealed Himself to Job. Job said, I had heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen You; therefore I abhor myself and I repent in dust and ashes (42:5-6). He had gained God in his experience, which is worth more than all the riches of the earth. Along the way he revealed many important spiritual things, like that there is a spirit in man (32:8), and that man needs for God to have a place where God and man can parler (23:3-9).
You're missing the point. God also "allows" Satan to roam the Earth. That's literally how the story of Job starts.
God doesn't "allow" Satan anything to destroy Job. He simply points out that Satan has, and always had, the power to do it. Just like he's free to go from Hell, to Earth, to Heaven. On his own whim.
Also God predicted correctly that no matter what Satan did it could not break (move a hair on his head) Job's will or faith.
I hear people say things like "God protects them" or "God punishes them." That's a rather childish view. Especially in light of what we learn in Job.
"Deliver us from evil." Where and what evil did you exactly think that meant? We are here, outside the garden of paradise, we forsook God. He does not involve himself in this. Satan does but He does not.
If/when God allows it.
So, in your view, God allowed Satan to destroy Job?
You've got some bizarre ethics over there.
Seriously.. go read the story.. it's short.. take the time to actually think about it because it seems to me you never really have before.
I have, repeatedly, though it’s currently been a hair. How I remember it, Satan went to God and asked permission to test Job, and it was granted.
Wikipedia says the same as I remember.
God didn't allow Satan to destroy Job, He allowed Satan to strip Job. At the beginning, Job relied on his integrity. He thought he was pretty good. Also, he had a commercial principle. If you are righteous, God will bless you. If you are not, God will punish you. That's what he preached to his friends. So, when they saw that he was suffering, they were sure that he had done something wrong. He knew he was righteous, so he didn't understand why he was suffering. The answer wasn't given until the apostle Paul, who counted all the things he had thought were benefits, as rubbish, that he might gain Christ (Pp. 3:8). At the end of Job, God revealed Himself to Job. Job said, I had heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen You; therefore I abhor myself and I repent in dust and ashes (42:5-6). He had gained God in his experience, which is worth more than all the riches of the earth. Along the way he revealed many important spiritual things, like that there is a spirit in man (32:8), and that man needs for God to have a place where God and man can parler (23:3-9).
You're missing the point. God also "allows" Satan to roam the Earth. That's literally how the story of Job starts.
God doesn't "allow" Satan anything to destroy Job. He simply points out that Satan has, and always had, the power to do it. Just like he's free to go from Hell, to Earth, to Heaven. On his own whim.
Also God predicted correctly that no matter what Satan did it could not break (move a hair on his head) Job's will or faith.
I hear people say things like "God protects them" or "God punishes them." That's a rather childish view. Especially in light of what we learn in Job.
"Deliver us from evil." Where and what evil did you exactly think that meant? We are here, outside the garden of paradise, we forsook God. He does not involve himself in this. Satan does but He does not.