16. The Book of Job on The Problem of Evil from Unpacking Ideas

16. The Book of Job on The Problem of Evil

1 hour 27 minutes Posted May 23, 2022 at 2:00 pm.

) Introducing Job

) Author/Date/Translation

) Summary of Job Story

) Loyalty to God

) "Naked came I out of my mother's womb, naked shall I return tither."

) Job's wife's skepticism

) Victim Blaming (Job's friends)

) God's response to Job

) Acceptance/Surrender to fate

) Carl Jung's "Answer to Job"

) Putting personal suffering into perspective

) The Problem of Evil

) Summing up

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In this episode we unpack "The Book of Job" from The Old Testament of the Bible

This book explores...

-Why God allows bad things to happen to innocent people

-Why surrender is sometimes the only answer to that which is out of our control

-Why pondering the cosmos helps put our personal suffering into perspective

Links to Reading and other Books mentioned

The King James Bible

The Wisdom Books by Robert Alter

The Art of Biblical Poetry by Robert Alter

Answer to Job by Carl Jung

The Tree of Life by Terrence Malick (film)

**note** reading is not required to enjoy the episode!

Host: Zach Stehura UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Lee Posna [email protected]

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