“By permitting Job to suffer unjustly, God was allowing him (Job) to learn one of the most important lessons that anyone could ever learned.” These are the words of the September – October 2009 Good News magazine an article entitled “What Job Learned by Suffering.”
First, I must admit, Sunday school was not my forte so maybe I happened to miss the Job lessons. However, I am an average reader, and the Bible is one of the many books I have read many times. Thus, I can say with certainty, contrary to what the Christian spin is, the story of Job carries no lessons for Job. On the other hand, the lesson or lessons that a true seeker of truth should deduce, as I will revel later, put another light on Job’s story. For those who might be a little rusty concerning the Bible stories; Job is recorded to be a well-respected man. In fact, as the Bible tells us, he loved God. “This man was the greatest of all men of the east,” claims the Bible (Job: 1:1-3). Never mind Job’s goodness, this supposed great and God-fearing man was to become a pawn, a chess piece in a game played by God and his buddy, Satan.
 
The Grenadian Freethinker