Thursday, October 6, 2016

Similarity and difference to The Book of Job to the Old Testament

There are many similarities and differences between the Old Testament and the story if Job. One similarity between the story of Job and the Old Testament is that God always tends to make somebody suffer in certain ways. In the story of Job, they made Job suffer by taking away everything he cared about to still see if he was always going to be loyal to God. Another similarity is that The Old Testament and the story of Job are that in all of the stories, they all revolve around God and how you have to stay loyal to him. There are also many differences between the Old Testament and the story of Job. One difference is that in the story of Job, God originally said that Job was very loyal to him and God knew that but in an example, like the story of Abraham and Isaac, Abraham had to gain Gods respect because God didn't really realize that Abraham was that loyal to him. Another reason why they are different is because in the story of Job, Job had a huge, very nice family and lived a very good life in the beginning, but in most of the stories in the Old Testament most stories started off by saying that the main character lived a harsh life because they originally were suffering right from the beginning. That is why the story of Job and the Old Testament were similar and different.

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