God’s Creative Authority in Genesis and Job Essay

God creates everything, from plants to animals, from bacteria to cells, and blesses all he makes and tells them to be loyal and to reproduce. God sees how everything he made is good. He finishes all of his creations on the sixth day. God has a loyal, bold, and mature character. He has created “Earth” and made living creatures which can lead to the foreshadowing of the creation of man.

Summary- Job is a well-off and righteous man who often gives sacrifices to the Lord. The Lord takes note of the virtue of Job’s life and praises him, however Satan disagrees with God's perception of Job. Satan argues that Job only remains righteous and humble because the Lord has blessed him with a wealthy life and a happy family, stating that without those things, Job would no longer stay so virtuous. God decides to test Satan's theory and in the course of one day, Job's livestock and his children are all killed. Despite having lost so much, Job still remains faithful and turns to worship the Lord. God is impressed with Job and tells Satan that even through hardship, Job is still an upright man. Satan, however, is still unconvinced and claims

Satan was given the opportunity to wreak havoc on Job’s life by taking away his family, his home, his cattle, his health, etc. Although Job’s reaction to this loss was still extremely natural involving a long grieving process, his recognition of God’s control is obvious as he says, “ The Lord gave me what I had, and The Lord has taken it away. Praise the name of the Lord!” (Life Application Study Bible, Job. 1. 21b). God allowed Satan to do this in order to test Job’s faith and reveal where Job stands in terms of God’s control. After a long and very difficult conversation God brings Job to a place where he sees God’s power over everything as something that is good. Being tested and taught by God as a Heavenly Father demonstrates God’s love for the human race, as he desired for Job to grow in endurance and stand firm through every trial. Job’s life is eventually restored and he is blessed for this, whereas Satan is

Within the Western theistic tradition, the Christian God is conceived as a mysterious, supreme deity that is the only being worth of worship because He is “something than which nothing greater can be conceived” (Anslem 1033-1109). This God is the great architect of the universe whom represents the depth and complexities of human experiences. Such mystery is why writing about God is essentially writing about the complexities of human beings. This inconceivably complex God was researched in numerous biblical books within both the Old and New Testament over the lapse of this fall semester. Interpreting these books of the Bible aroused a plethora of questions such as what is God like and how is God portrayed to others according to these books?

Humans have been given by God the free will to choose their destiny, find their path in life and purpose, love, and serve God or the opposite, themselves. But because Adam and Eve made the choice to experiment life without God, things got complicated for everybody, suffering and evil came as a result of their rebellion (“Lecture 6,” 2015). The story of Job is a perfect example of a man’s love and faithfulness towards God, a man who served God unconditionally. And because he loved and served God, he became Satan’s target. Satan wanted to demonstrate God that Jobs love towards him was only because He was good to him. So, God allowed Satan to hurt Job, physically, mentally and emotionally, Job lost everything he had, including his children. (“Lecture

The Bible discloses God’s creative movement as he artistically and architecturally formed and created a meaningless and formless mass into a work of artistry. His powerful voice called into existence a newness of life in the heavens and the earth. God authoritatively summoned certain occurrences to transpire which effortlessly took place because he simply said it. God said, “Let there be…and there was...” (Gen 1:3-24) throughout the new earth. However, the climax of the entire restoration process came when the Godhead deliberated and consented to making humankind in the image and likeness of God. Humankind in God’s image and likeness does not correlate to a physical likeness of him, but a spiritual conformity through a relationship of fellowship, obedience and love.

The story of Job describes a wealthy man that has large flocks and a big family. God had always bragged about how good Job was although Satan second-guessed that and urged God to test him. Within one day, Satan had taken Job’s livestock, servants, and children. On top of everything else Satan curses him with skin sores. Through this entire catastrophe Job’s wife tells him to blaspheme God and give up his life. When it couldn’t get any worse, Job’s friends explain to him that God did this to punish him for his behavior and his children died because they deserved it. You’d think Job would question his relationship with God, but instead, Job wonders why his friends do not trust in God. Job’s response to it all is “He believes that there is a

The Book of Job is a problematic piece of wisdom literature in that it presents a man “blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil,” (Job 1:1) and proceeds to destroy him in the face of God. God boasts about Job’s exemplary behavior as a loyal servant to a gathering of his sons. When the Adversary, who stood among God’s sons, wagers that Job would curse God if his possessions were decimated, God allows the Adversary to annihilate all that belongs to Job, including his servants and his children. When Job does not curse God, God allows the Adversary to further Job’s suffering by allowing Job to be inflicted with grotesque and painful sores all over his body. It is then that Job struggles with the relationship between man and God; it seems to Job that the innocent suffer overwhelmingly while the wicked prosper, and God allows this to happen. What is significant about Job’s suffering is the fact that we can confidently state that it was undeserved. While it may have been acceptable for a sinner to be punished by God, it seems unjust, and even cruel, for God to allow Job to suffer so greatly, despite Job’s unparalleled faith and respect for God. Throughout adaptations and translations of the Book of Job, Job sustains character modifications, some minute, some significant, that accordingly impact the message of the story. For every characteristic of Job that is modified, a new aspect of the story of Job is explored.

In the book of Genesis, the reader is presented with multiple of God’s creations. Specifically, the first chapter goes on to show that God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1), vegetation throughout the earth (Genesis 1:11), and living creatures of every kind (Genesis 1:24). Following these creations, God made humankind (Genesis 1:26). Through the formation of all these things, it becomes clear that god has supreme power over earth and all living things. God’s power as a “creator” is the first thing that is consistently portrayed in the book of Genesis, making it clear to the reader how significant his power is. Further in the book of Genesis, we are shown God’s almighty power through his creation of the forty-day flood, a way for God to eliminate those who promoted a violent and evil Earth (Genesis 7:17-22). Later, in the book, a rhetorical question is stated in Genesis 18:14, which further proves that God’s power does not have any limits. That question being “Is anything too wonderful for the Lord?” Consistently throughout the Old Testament, God can do anything he desires, without anything preventing him from doing so. These examples effectively show God’s omnipotent power throughout the book of Genesis, and do a great job of portraying God as the “creator.” By showing God’s almighty power multiple times in the book of Genesis, it is expected that it will continue to be evident in later

After reading the book of Genesis, chapters one to three, one can easily distinguish a different worldview of God in the eyes of Israelites when compared to early civilizations in Mesopotamia and Egypt. They have their commonalities too, but after reading both texts, the bigger differences lie upon the relationship between humanity itself and God as a cultural elite.

The Book of Job is one of the writings of the Hebrew Scriptures. It is renowned for its use of lyrical poetry, sharp rhetoric, and distinct characters. It begins and ends with prose, while the bulk of the story is told through poetic dialogue. The text is considered to be the locus classicus on the contemplation of evil given the presence of an all-powerful God that is good. This question of evil is often referred to as theodicy, an amalgamation of the Greek words for ‘God’ and ‘trial’. The quotation “For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together. There is no umpire between us who might lay his hand upon us both” (Job 9:32-33) acknowledges the fundamental distinction between God and man; the impossibility of man contending with God; and the lack of an arbitrator capable of mediating divinity.

In Genesis 1:1-2:3 the influence of God 's work is unquestionable. God speaks worlds into existence, and step by step we see the earliest example of the right use of power. It is in the first chapter genesis that we learn that GOD (the divine one) is the only one that created this universe. As Vern S. Poythress said “Genesis 1 proclaims that God is the only sovereign Lord and Creator of all” (Poythress 2015). God speaks and things come

While Job maintains a variety of virtues such as righteousness, respect, and discipline, Job’s honesty is an even greater attribute to his character, because he freely expresses his sincere feelings of his hardship to the Lord, establishing a much closer relationship. As Satan came to present himself to God, the Lord said to Satan “Have you considered and reflected on my servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and abstains from and turns away from evil” (Job 1: 8). Before the event occurred, Job was already living a wealthy and luxurious life, maintaining a vice-free persona, and establishes an already healthy relationship with God, something that begins to break down later on in the parable. However, even God himself questions Job’s true loyalty to him as a follower, and this leads Him to take upon Satan’s bet to test whether Job is a faithful servant of the Lord by killing off Job’s livestock, servants, and family. The job has never done any wrong in his life(there is no indication of Job having an accurate historical background), and he laments over whether God is the final word of all justice that occurs in the world. The combined loss of his wealth and family, along with his stance on morality, has triggered his frustrations on God’s rule of Justice, and he expresses his thoughts on God. God explains (through a vision) that compared to Job, he has power over the world, meaning that Job only has enough limited

Job was a righteous man who feared God and upheld divine standards. He abounded in gifts of mercy and acts of godly devotion. Job routinely offered sacrifices to atone for his children’s sins. Hence, God was quite pleased to observe as his servant maintained integrity in his dealing. The Almighty spoke about Job’s godly devotion to Satan the Devil. In fact, Satan claimed that Job was primarily concerned with selfish interests. God decided to allow Satan to bring trials upon Job to test the patriarch’s motives. In this essay, I will highlight the significance of righteousness in the debates between Job and his friends.

After analyzing the biblical book of Job, I have concluded that Job portrayed the characteristics of an idealist. Thus, the unknown author of the assigned scriptures consequently told Job’s story through the lenses of an idealist. When proposing an argument towards the metaphysical question of “How is the world?” the author ultimately suggests that the nature of the world is in the hands of a higher being (which is defined as the Hebrew God in this context). Such ideas are referenced in the author’s supposed retelling of God’s conversation’s with Satan (source of evil, limited and controlled by God) concerning Job’s fate in Job 1:6-12. This is an idealistic thought because one’s belief in the Hebrew God indicates that one believes beyond