Post by Admin on Mar 2, 2022 3:48:28 GMT
Chapter 2 - Infinite suffering
Satan tempts God again, and God agrees to curse Job's body with intense pain coming from sores all over his body - so great that his friends didn't dare speak to him for seven days for fear of aggravating Job further.
*Sores*
I have a friend who recently went through a pregnancy. A few months after the birth she went through the pain of enduring something worse - a disease of inflammation causing sores and puss within her skin. She claimed that the pain from her sores was twenty times greater than the pain of childbirth. Given that childbirth is already an incomprehensibly intense type of pain, I was shocked to find a type of pain that was almost infinitely greater than that which I already assumed was an infinitely horrific pain.
*Rage*
What this communicates to me is the almost limitless possibility for suffering in the human experience. Great suffering can make you want to lash out in rage at anyone or anything that provokes you - hence Job's friends were fearful of even talking to him. With greater possibility for suffering, there is perhaps a greater test of character - the ability to not take out your suffering on others who are innocent. There seems to be a scientific consensus on the connection between chronic pain and anger [2]. There also seems to be evidence that chronic pain leads to violent ideations [3].
NEXT: Chapter 3 - Regrets being born
Satan tempts God again, and God agrees to curse Job's body with intense pain coming from sores all over his body - so great that his friends didn't dare speak to him for seven days for fear of aggravating Job further.
*Sores*
I have a friend who recently went through a pregnancy. A few months after the birth she went through the pain of enduring something worse - a disease of inflammation causing sores and puss within her skin. She claimed that the pain from her sores was twenty times greater than the pain of childbirth. Given that childbirth is already an incomprehensibly intense type of pain, I was shocked to find a type of pain that was almost infinitely greater than that which I already assumed was an infinitely horrific pain.
*Rage*
What this communicates to me is the almost limitless possibility for suffering in the human experience. Great suffering can make you want to lash out in rage at anyone or anything that provokes you - hence Job's friends were fearful of even talking to him. With greater possibility for suffering, there is perhaps a greater test of character - the ability to not take out your suffering on others who are innocent. There seems to be a scientific consensus on the connection between chronic pain and anger [2]. There also seems to be evidence that chronic pain leads to violent ideations [3].
NEXT: Chapter 3 - Regrets being born
