Over the past few weeks my history class has talked about the Puritans, and as I read through Job I could not help but think about how the Puritans would have felt towards Job after all his misfortunes. In the Puritan community, everything revolved around the church and the Covenant which was an agreement between the Puritans and God. If they lived a moral life, God would bless them, and when bad things happened (house fire, crops destroyed, animals die, etcetera) it was because one was not living up to the Covenant. In my mind as I read, I placed Job into this society. Job lost everything, so to the Puritans that meant he did something AWFUL! However, as we all know, Job just loved The Lord and God let Satan attack him to test him. Job would have completely been misjudged in the Puritan society, and as I thought on this I couldn't help but think how even today we associate trials and tribulations as consequences from sin. From now on, I will definitely look a whatever trials come my way in a different way!
P.S. I commented on Caleb's post!
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