From ea9a5182ffa7b9e9f360b6171e653130047b9704 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madison Scott-Clary Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 17:25:04 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update from sparkleup --- writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/clash.md | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/clash.md b/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/clash.md index dfe93ad4..986c64d9 100644 --- a/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/clash.md +++ b/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/clash.md @@ -150,8 +150,10 @@ This is when Chesterton's quote becomes clear. God answers with a note of exclam Chesterton, here, disagrees. "God will make Job see a startling universe if He can only do it by making Job see an idiotic universe," he says. \parencite{intro-to-job} "To startle man, God becomes for an instant a blasphemer; one might almost say that God becomes for an instant an atheist." -> If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. Men will leave off the heavy task of making good men successful. He will adopt the easier task of making out successful men good. \parencite{intro-to-job} +"*What is all this foolish chatter about good and evil,* the Voice says." as Mitchell puts it. \parencite[xxiv]{Mitchell} "*about battles between a hero-god and some cosmic opponent? Don't you understand that there* is *no one else in here?*" But contrast this against the God of the legend, who Mitchell, earlier in his essay, suggests "would himself doubt the disinterestedness of his obedient human". -> "A man who hungers and thirsts after justice is not satisfied with a menu. It is not enough for him to hope or believe or know that there is absolute justice in the universe: he must taste and see it. It is not enough that there may be justice someday in the golden haze of the future: it must be now; must *always* have been now." \parencite[xviii]{mitchell} +It's the God who responds who bears the most gravitas in this dialogue. It is the God who responds by saying "Yes, suffering exists. Yes, I know of it. And yet the world is still grand. Even you are still grand" who positions Job in the right. His apology is unspoken, sure, but it is provided in the returning of his wealth and his family (yes, a different family, but such are fables). What comes off as capriciousness by theodicy and apologetics is intensely personal to Job. -(It's a performance) +This, then, becomes a performance. It's a moral stage-play put on for our benefits to better understand the intersection of pain and faith. + +But so, too, is interested faith a performance. "If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue," Chesterton cautions Job's friends. "Men will leave off the heavy task of making good men successful. He will adopt the easier task of making out successful men good." \parencite{intro-to-job}