Hmmm. I very much doubt the factual integrity behind the story in the first place - and I don't see how any sane god regards someone being swallowed by a giant fish an appropriate way for someone to deliver salvation.
Yes, it was fair to punish Job and test his faith by killing his innocent children. Oh no wait - it was fine in the end- he got new ones!
I think thats just an excuse for suffering, and a rather piss poor one at that.
I thought he was all loving and all knowing. If he is all loving, why is he testing us in negative ways? If he is all knowing surely he knows if we have faith or not and needs not test it?
The whole suffering is part of God's great plan is the lamest way of trying to come up with an excuse for evil. A small child could invent it.
Yes, thats why babies are born with terminal diseases.
This is beating a strawman. My problem is that if you come to God, why should you ever suffer again with him protecting over you from things like bad luck, terminal diseases etc? I can understand that God needs to allow rapists for free will, and that a beliver could therefore be raped - but why on earth would a believer get cancer? Didn't God design the Earth? Why has he desgined it so small children get lukeimeia?
OOOhh, its all part of his great plan... give me a break. All this talk of God and suffering; Either you've never expericned real suffering, or you have, and as a means to deal with it you've turned to what man has turned to for centuries, God - to make it all feel better. Or you've been brainwashed from birth.
Yes, but it makes you question gods very existence or nature in the first place. If the Christian God does exist, hes a prick and I want no part in his heaven.
But why should a believer be homeless in the first place? Why is the situation arising?
