The Book Of Job By Annie Dillard

The Book of Job deals with the bigger issues Christians would face. If one believes in a righteous force that oversees the earth, then why is there an evil force? Job finds out that he is not allowed to ask the universe for justice because he is unaware of how the universe works. Job is a wealthy man who lives with his large family and his voluminous livestock. He tried his best to avoid evil, not just for himself but for everyone in his family. One day, Satan appeared before God and God talked to him about Job’s goodness, but Satan disagreed with God. He said that Job was only good because of God blessing him abundantly. Satan challenged God that he can make Job turn and curse God, only if given permission to punish him. God allowed satan

The beauty in this world tells us that there is a creator and everything he creates is graceful. However, seeing a rotting butterfly is not graceful or a burning your toast is not something exciting. Yet, Annie Dillard was able to find beauty through everything because it was created by God. Dillard wrote a book called “Holy the Firm,” and in the beginning she talked about a spider. She mentioned in the very beginning that “Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time." She finds God in everything she sees and everything around her is god’s creation and it is something that she admires, “There is a spider, too, in the bathroom, with whom I keep a sort of company… The spider herself is of uncertain lineage, bulbous at the abdomen and drab. Her six-inch mess of a web works, works somehow, works miraculously, to keep her alive and me amazed. The web itself is in a corner behind the toilet, connecting tile wall to tile wall and floor, in a place where there is, I would have thought, scant traffic. Yet under the web are sixteen or so corpses she has tossed to the floor.” Even with all that filth, she still finds God there. She thinks of the spider just like God, beauty. At some point of the book she was eating eggs and at the moment she was so amazed by her eggs. This is when she starts to dislocate with her surrounding and started to focus and admire one thing. After being amazed

McFague talks about different concerns about God languages in her book “Models of God,” God is such a powerful being that in order for us humans to understand him we need to use metaphors. A metaphor is using a word or concept appropriate to one context but used in another. It is when one calls something something else. Highlighting one quality about something but excluding the other qualities. Human beings their own language talking about God, they make certain assumptions and certain qualities about God. An example would be assuming that God is this powerful male, this should just be a picture, an image about God. Not what God is, not who God is. God-language matters because this affects our understanding and behavior towards God. However, God-language can never be literal, because God’s reality is unknowable. Our current language about God is problematic, we are worshipping a different God. We human beings can not put a label on God, we do not have that power. We are confusing people’s language with God’s self, and that is called idolatry. Idolatry is worshipping a different God. Another reason why our language about God is problematic is because we use anachronistic language. This is when a certain concept that belongs from another time. Languages like king is an anachronistic, no one in this period of time uses king in a deeper meaning than it was before. There is not enough understanding,