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Chapter 11 - Repent and be forgiven
Job's friends continue to berate him, and claim that if he repents and turns his heart to God, everything will be better and he will forget his suffering like the water flowing down a river. Job's friends make appeals to God's infinite and unfathomable wisdom that cannot be questioned.
*Divine command theory*
Job's friends continue to fall into the divine command theory religious trap that forces religious conclusions to go in accordance with the principle that God is always good, no matter what happens. By making "God = good" the axiom of divine command theory, everything he does is good. Therefore, God is always worthy of worship. The problem with this line of thinking is that it makes goodness arbitrary. God can torture, rape, steal, lie, murder, and all of it is justified by "God's ways are mysterious" and "God's ways are higher than our ways." By making unending appeals to mystery, you could even allow a being as unscrupulous as Satan the possibility to become God in your own eyes - for no divine sin is beyond being able to be brushed off as a mystery.
NEXT: Chapter 12 - With great power comes great responsibility
Job's friends continue to berate him, and claim that if he repents and turns his heart to God, everything will be better and he will forget his suffering like the water flowing down a river. Job's friends make appeals to God's infinite and unfathomable wisdom that cannot be questioned.
*Divine command theory*
Job's friends continue to fall into the divine command theory religious trap that forces religious conclusions to go in accordance with the principle that God is always good, no matter what happens. By making "God = good" the axiom of divine command theory, everything he does is good. Therefore, God is always worthy of worship. The problem with this line of thinking is that it makes goodness arbitrary. God can torture, rape, steal, lie, murder, and all of it is justified by "God's ways are mysterious" and "God's ways are higher than our ways." By making unending appeals to mystery, you could even allow a being as unscrupulous as Satan the possibility to become God in your own eyes - for no divine sin is beyond being able to be brushed off as a mystery.
NEXT: Chapter 12 - With great power comes great responsibility
