The Book of Job deals with the bigger issues Christians would face. If one believes in a righteous force that oversees the earth, then why is there an evil force? Job finds out that he is not allowed to ask the universe for justice because he is unaware of how the universe works. Job is a wealthy man who lives with his large family and his voluminous livestock. He tried his best to avoid evil, not just for himself but for everyone in his family. One day, Satan appeared before God and God talked to him about Job’s goodness, but Satan disagreed with God. He said that Job was only good because of God blessing him abundantly. Satan challenged God that he can make Job turn and curse God, only if given permission to punish him. God allowed satan …show more content…
The beauty in this world tells us that there is a creator and everything he creates is graceful. However, seeing a rotting butterfly is not graceful or a burning your toast is not something exciting. Yet, Annie Dillard was able to find beauty through everything because it was created by God. Dillard wrote a book called “Holy the Firm,” and in the beginning she talked about a spider. She mentioned in the very beginning that “Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time." She finds God in everything she sees and everything around her is god’s creation and it is something that she admires, “There is a spider, too, in the bathroom, with whom I keep a sort of company… The spider herself is of uncertain lineage, bulbous at the abdomen and drab. Her six-inch mess of a web works, works somehow, works miraculously, to keep her alive and me amazed. The web itself is in a corner behind the toilet, connecting tile wall to tile wall and floor, in a place where there is, I would have thought, scant traffic. Yet under the web are sixteen or so corpses she has tossed to the floor.” Even with all that filth, she still finds God there. She thinks of the spider just like God, beauty. At some point of the book she was eating eggs and at the moment she was so amazed by her eggs. This is when she starts to dislocate with her surrounding and started to focus and admire one thing. After being amazed …show more content…
McFague talks about different concerns about God languages in her book “Models of God,” God is such a powerful being that in order for us humans to understand him we need to use metaphors. A metaphor is using a word or concept appropriate to one context but used in another. It is when one calls something something else. Highlighting one quality about something but excluding the other qualities. Human beings their own language talking about God, they make certain assumptions and certain qualities about God. An example would be assuming that God is this powerful male, this should just be a picture, an image about God. Not what God is, not who God is. God-language matters because this affects our understanding and behavior towards God. However, God-language can never be literal, because God’s reality is unknowable. Our current language about God is problematic, we are worshipping a different God. We human beings can not put a label on God, we do not have that power. We are confusing people’s language with God’s self, and that is called idolatry. Idolatry is worshipping a different God. Another reason why our language about God is problematic is because we use anachronistic language. This is when a certain concept that belongs from another time. Languages like king is an anachronistic, no one in this period of time uses king in a deeper meaning than it was before. There is not enough understanding,
His calm explanation of the spider leads the reader to expect a simple commentary on spiders comparative to other commentaries found in textbooks. This tone, however, contrasts starkly against his more brooding phrase choices such as "husks of consumed insects" (2 Grice) or "devouring her tenth victim" (5 Grice) that create a deplorable image of the spider. Yet somehow, between these conflicting voices, an even more confusing undertone surfaces. In such phrases as "remarkable" (4 Grice) or "mystic reverence" (9 Grice) the reader can hear the echoes of the awe-inspired
The ideology behind Dillard’s concept of “beautiful suffering” is that God is like an artist who allows suffering (or burning) upon his creations. According to Dillard, God allows this suffering as a part of his mysterious art form; in order for physical and/or mental evolvement. Thus, the creation results in a unique beauty in preparation for placement
How does she create that effect? She creates that effect by using the story of moth dying than the author describes his inner thoughts. According to the essay, she says, “but, as I stretched out a pencil, meaning to help him to right himself; it came over me that the failure and awkwardness were the approach of death”. This shows that struggle for life even in a small figure of insects.
In A Noiseless Patient Spider, Walt Whitman makes exemplary use of metaphor and imagery. Whitman begins the poem by vividly portraying the experience of observing a spider beginning the weaving of it’s web, allowing the audience to visualize the elaborate analogy he has created. In the second stanza, he evolves these images further into metaphors for the soul's desire: "to the bridge you will need be formed" and "till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere,” expressing the idea of the soul’s desperation for connection to something of meaning in the world around it. Even the title of the poem itself creates an image in the reader’s mind. The phrase "A noiseless patient spider" invokes an illustration of a tiny spider sitting perfectly
In the poem, “A Noiseless Patient Spider” by Walt Whitman a spider is talked about. The use of the noiseless patient spider seems to compare with the author. If the author were more patient and quiet he could be someone. The analogy is used to compare the boring spider to the life of the author. Imagery, metaphors, and analogies are all used to compare the spider to the soul of the speaker.
The word ‘gods’ can be described as an idol, material object or image representing deity, or, it can be any thought or idea which withdraw the spirit of the living God from human heart as a replacement. Worshiping other “gods” is a violation of God’s commandment and it is of course a sinful act. The author of ‘king of the campus’, Stephen Lutz, talks about the people of Babel, how their ambition, desire for status and fame became their ‘gods’. When they were over stepping what God has set for them, then, he divided their language and he scattered them across the earth. Stephen Luiz wrote “these idols need to be dethroned”.
When the Sons of God, including Satan, gathered before God, God brought to Satan’s attention the righteousness of the man Job. Satan’s
This quote reminds us that we are not the center of the universe, a fact that many of us like to deny. The book of Job also teaches us about empathy and sympathy. Through his friends’ response to Job’s suffering, we learn that it is better to respond with empathy. We also learn that all people suffer, and God does not cause suffering. Therefore, whenever we are suffering, we should not blame God.
In the Bible, God is anthropomorphized and made to seem as though he were human. Anthropomorphism does cast human traits and characteristics onto unhuman things, but its goal is not mere labelization. In the Bible, anthropomorphic descriptions are typically mistaken as a way to convey that God is like us and is a man with a body. Such characterization is done not because God actually is a man, but rather, it is done to divulge spiritual truths about God that are normally beyond our level of understanding.
Walt Whitman expresses his thoughts on the isolation and spirituality of the human soul through various diction, structure and imagery. In the poem, A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman illustrates his visions of a soul and its parallelism to a spider. In the title of the poem, the “Patient” shows personification also potentially foreshadowing the interconnectedness with the soul later in the poem. Furthermore, the “Spider” component of the title can be interpreted as imagery for a spider that waits silently but patiently.
Isaiah points to the inability of images to describe or represent God accurately: “To whom can you compare God? What image can you contrive of Him?” (Is 40:18) Although we are not able to fully understand
Third, Job stays faithful and is rewarded. Job is a wealthy and successful man, who “feareth god and escheweth evil” (Job 1:8). He is the shining example of what man should be; loyal, faithful, successful and because of this, Satan chooses Job to be his example. Myths contain god/gods and a demi-god or demi-gods, in this case God and Satan (gods) as well as, Job (demi-god). To have a myth, the story must contain gods or demi-gods.
In Christianity this is referred to as theology of divine retribution, and it assumes that God blesses those who are faithful to him and punishes those who sin. But, through Job suffering he continues to talk to God to ask the question why? In Job 7:20 “Have
The Bible has many amazing stories. The book of Job is a great example of an amazing story in the Bible. This story is about a righteous man’s suffering. Hill and Walton states, “The purpose of the book of Job is to explore God’s policies concerning justice, especially as it regards to the suffering of the righteous.” When reading this Bible story, it is very hard not to focus on the main character of the book.
However, God acts more as a force than as a tangible character; his character is built primarily not on his actions, or strong expressions of deep feeling, but on his words and condemnation