Job's not a really good one for explaining God, especially with Christians. Christians say that the trials we face are moot for God because no matter what the circumstance, God already saw the whole thing before hand and knew what we were going to do. The trial is just so that we can 'also' see it. This doesn't really work with Job. Satan's demand of God to test Job only makes sense because God has no idea how Job would react, and is the basis for His anger at Job in the end of the story. If God is all knowing, then the story of Job makes no sense. If God is not all knowing, then I don't think too much of Him for testing us with extraordinary circumstances. |