Lucretius And Job's Suffering
Like diamonds, we as humans succumb to great amounts of pressure (suffering).
Pressure can cause us to break, fall, or die. When we suffer it causes us to be weighed down if we allow our suffering to control our lives. With all of the misfortune in everyday life, sometimes it just adds on to the backs of individuals making it hard to move forward, the pressure brings new meaning to the phrase “no pain, no gain.” Once the pressure ceases we are unearthed as glorious diamonds that the pressure of long suffering has created, and we become jewels in God’s mine. I want to present a question about whether Job and Lucretius both argue that incredible human suffering means the existence of (g)God is justified. First, the suffrage of …show more content…
Job did not listen to their argument or reasoning, and told them that they spoke no knowledge or wisdom, and while he suffered he faithfully believed in Yahweh. In the end, Job was rewarded double of what he had before his troubles. Job’s family and land were restored to him because of his faith Job received extended life and lived to see four generations of his beautiful family. He was tested and had to endure so much, and through the pressure thrown upon him through the pain and fear, in the end he was able to shine. In Job’s case human suffering is justified through the existence of God. Secondly, Lucretius the poet philosopher, Lucretius held to his belief that all things happen by natural causes without any involvement by the gods, and that humankind could be free from fear of the god(s). Lucretius wrote the epic poem, De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of
Things). It was a poem written in six books that explains life and the world of Epicurean principles and atomism.
To clarify, atomism was the attention that was not focused on detailed explanations of many phenomena, but on general aspects of these occurrences and on the basic lines …show more content…
It had a white burning glow, and it made this hissing noise like a snake, but as fast as it hit the ground my grandfather and dad already had it set on fire, and it hissed loudly.
After that ordeal, Taylor was back to normal for a while, but the point of this portion of my life is that, I had witnessed a miracle of God and that was not the first or last. I have seen healings, miraculous occurrences, and I have felt the love of God once before when I was prayed over and felt the Holy Spirit. What we must realize is that there are so many things in the world that can hurt us, or even kill us, and when it does we need to realize that without God we cannot overcome something that truly means us harm if we do not have faith. It is crazy to think anything without God’s help is possible.
In relation, If Job did not have God he wouldn’t have had the chance to get his land and family back, and I really think if Lucretius would have had a stronger belief system he would have been a happier man that would have lived passed forty-four. I believe that what makes humans doubt God is fear. I do not mean the fear
Pressure can cause us to break, fall, or die. When we suffer it causes us to be weighed down if we allow our suffering to control our lives. With all of the misfortune in everyday life, sometimes it just adds on to the backs of individuals making it hard to move forward, the pressure brings new meaning to the phrase “no pain, no gain.” Once the pressure ceases we are unearthed as glorious diamonds that the pressure of long suffering has created, and we become jewels in God’s mine. I want to present a question about whether Job and Lucretius both argue that incredible human suffering means the existence of (g)God is justified. First, the suffrage of …show more content…
Job did not listen to their argument or reasoning, and told them that they spoke no knowledge or wisdom, and while he suffered he faithfully believed in Yahweh. In the end, Job was rewarded double of what he had before his troubles. Job’s family and land were restored to him because of his faith Job received extended life and lived to see four generations of his beautiful family. He was tested and had to endure so much, and through the pressure thrown upon him through the pain and fear, in the end he was able to shine. In Job’s case human suffering is justified through the existence of God. Secondly, Lucretius the poet philosopher, Lucretius held to his belief that all things happen by natural causes without any involvement by the gods, and that humankind could be free from fear of the god(s). Lucretius wrote the epic poem, De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of
Things). It was a poem written in six books that explains life and the world of Epicurean principles and atomism.
To clarify, atomism was the attention that was not focused on detailed explanations of many phenomena, but on general aspects of these occurrences and on the basic lines …show more content…
It had a white burning glow, and it made this hissing noise like a snake, but as fast as it hit the ground my grandfather and dad already had it set on fire, and it hissed loudly.
After that ordeal, Taylor was back to normal for a while, but the point of this portion of my life is that, I had witnessed a miracle of God and that was not the first or last. I have seen healings, miraculous occurrences, and I have felt the love of God once before when I was prayed over and felt the Holy Spirit. What we must realize is that there are so many things in the world that can hurt us, or even kill us, and when it does we need to realize that without God we cannot overcome something that truly means us harm if we do not have faith. It is crazy to think anything without God’s help is possible.
In relation, If Job did not have God he wouldn’t have had the chance to get his land and family back, and I really think if Lucretius would have had a stronger belief system he would have been a happier man that would have lived passed forty-four. I believe that what makes humans doubt God is fear. I do not mean the fear