Why Job is a Hero in Christian Perspective?

Why Job is a Hero in Christian Perspective?

 

Is Job a hero? Christians call Job as God's people, but they do not call him hero. This is because the word "hero" is not a Christian view but a word created from a human perspective. Job was only in abandon and oblivion in the misfortune that began to happen to him (the test of Satan under God's permission). It is only in the Bible that he had no other reason to blame, curse, or leave God as a person who believed in God.

    But he confessed that all of his possessions, and even of himself, were of God and can be thoroughly done God’s own way.

 “Naked I came from my mother's womb,

and naked I will depart."

The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;

may the name of the Lord be praised."(Job 1: 21)”

Job suffered too much and cursed his birth. Job was only a very weak human being. Everyone who takes it, according to Job's confession, is Jehovah. Why, then, did Job curse his own birth? Is not it God who gave life? So what is this, not the curse of God? In this sense, Job was only an ordinary person with a weakness that was extremely weak in the face of suffering.

But he was blessed. Let's look at how he was blessed. Before the blessing of God was given, there was always suffering. The cause of human suffering is usually caused by human error made by God's plan. But Job's suffering is not attributed to Job's fault, but to Satan's direct involvement. In this respect, it reveals how the human character of Job itself is. Author of Job has drawn Satan to emphasize that Job is a flawless man, that is, a good man who did not commit wrongs. This is another point of Job's suffering. So Job's suffering seems to be more cruel and cruel. In such affliction, Job, like any human, grumbled, cursed, or feared, but both his resentment and his fear of cursing with God. That is, God is with Job. Job did not give up belief that God is with us. This is the same with another example from the Old Testament, as Moses, Jacob, or Joseph were blessed. He did not forget God. He lived with God.

However, there is a difference from Job and the character mentioned above. For example, Jacob was blessed by fighting with angel of God. In this case, Jacob won the blessing aggressively, but Job did not. Job was seated and suffered, but he was with God in his sufferings. Job's character is different from Jacob's. It was not as cunning or active as Jacob. If so, Job represents the suffering that good people can suffer.

    It is kind of awkward to express Job as a hero, but he is a person who is blessed with God anyway. Job was a flawless man, and he resolved all the feelings of man that could be felt in the midst of suffering, in his relationship with God, in his interactions with God.

So, God intervened in his blessings. Unlike the records of other people in the Bible, Job was recorded that God blessed Job directly.

In the Bible,

“the lord made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before (Job 42:11)”

“The Lord blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the first. (Job 42:12)”