lunes, 27 de octubre de 2008

A "Perfect Man"

In Job, the character, Job is "and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil." This is a person in which God placed most of his tasks, a person that not even Satan could diminish. "And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?"  Satan tries many times to make this "perfect man" curse against God. He kills all his servants, he kills all of his thousands of animals, he even killed his family. Job did not curse. Satan comes once again to God, and once again tries to prove the faith of Job on God. He tears don his house, burns it down with all his fields. Job doesn't curse. Then, Job's three friends cite to meet him. When they do so, Job does lose his temper. He curses God, he curses one day in special. He says that this day will not have light, there will not be a single happy spirit in the whole earth on this day. There will be no stars, there will be no light at all. Job just doesn't have control over himself. Then, after all this, he calms down, and asks God forgiveness. To me, this chapter is a very important one in the Bible, because it is a time when a "perfect man", which God had so much trust in, rebels, and curses, and curses. It is a time when Satan triumphs, because with his acts, he amde a "perfect man" curse, a man which God never thought would do so. SO, is there a character in the Bible that God can trust in?

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