The Book of Job and the Labourers in the Vineyard
How do the Book of Job and the Labourers in the Vineyard demonstrate that God's justice is not our own justice and that our rationality does not confine God's freedom and wisdom?
The journey we take in life can be based on how we perceive what is right, what we are free to do, and our knowledge of things. Reasonable behaviour and thinking, also known as our rationality, can be distinguished from how God's justice, freedom and wisdom. Is it possible that our own moral values can differentiate from God's judgements on mankind? Should we, as human beings be punished for being able to reason without our own knowledge rather than what God expects from us? In the Book of Job and the parable of The Labourers in the Vineyard, both stories serve a purpose in demonstrating that God's justice is not our justice, and that our rationality doesn't limit God's freedom and wisdom.
To begin with, both stories show that God's justice is not our justice. Throughout the Book of Job, Job realizes he has sinned. As Job seeks why he is being punished, God then appears to Job and tells him that it was all a test and that God simply wanted to prove whether Job would have faith regardless of everything he has. But the question is, was God's justice reasonably right? In the Book of Job shows that God's justice is different from our own justice because we choose to believe in what we think is moral than just rather than go agreeing with God's thinks is right. For example, why does does God punish Job? Many times in the bible, God uses wrath on people to punish them in an act of being merciful by either testing them in order to make one realize their sins, just like God did to Job. Although other times, God uses wrath is when he punishes the wicked in Job 18 to prove goodness. So, how does God's justice differentiate from our own justice? Well, let's look at the Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard, where a landowner pays the equal amount to his labour workers. In result of this, the
The journey we take in life can be based on how we perceive what is right, what we are free to do, and our knowledge of things. Reasonable behaviour and thinking, also known as our rationality, can be distinguished from how God's justice, freedom and wisdom. Is it possible that our own moral values can differentiate from God's judgements on mankind? Should we, as human beings be punished for being able to reason without our own knowledge rather than what God expects from us? In the Book of Job and the parable of The Labourers in the Vineyard, both stories serve a purpose in demonstrating that God's justice is not our justice, and that our rationality doesn't limit God's freedom and wisdom.
To begin with, both stories show that God's justice is not our justice. Throughout the Book of Job, Job realizes he has sinned. As Job seeks why he is being punished, God then appears to Job and tells him that it was all a test and that God simply wanted to prove whether Job would have faith regardless of everything he has. But the question is, was God's justice reasonably right? In the Book of Job shows that God's justice is different from our own justice because we choose to believe in what we think is moral than just rather than go agreeing with God's thinks is right. For example, why does does God punish Job? Many times in the bible, God uses wrath on people to punish them in an act of being merciful by either testing them in order to make one realize their sins, just like God did to Job. Although other times, God uses wrath is when he punishes the wicked in Job 18 to prove goodness. So, how does God's justice differentiate from our own justice? Well, let's look at the Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard, where a landowner pays the equal amount to his labour workers. In result of this, the