12/9/19 Taison Chen Period 8

Taison Chen

12/9/19

Period 8

Modern Mythology 2020

Blog#2

Aim: How does the “Book of Job” structuralize and shape Western philosophy?

Write Now: What lessons and morals can be evoked from ‘The Book of Job”?

Proverbs-> god is just and fair

Ecclesiastes-> questions if god really is fair and just

Book of job-> puts the claim that ‘god is fair and just” to test and gives an example of a scenario

• We watched a film today about the 3 books of wisdom

• Good people rewarded and bad people punished

• Matt starts of by saying the Book of job was to give people unwavering faith in god

• Point of the books of wisdom is meant for being questioned

• Cult asks you to blindly follow

• Religion asks you to question

• Fusaro states that Job is meant for being questioned

• Satan is part of us in the way that we question things and not exactly “the devil”

• He represents our questions

• In the old testament, there is no solid heaven or hell
• You get what you put in

• Satan means the opposer

• Satan is temptation and told Eve that the apple had information that God did not have, and that he told her what God already said but in a way that was temptatious 

• Ryan questions what's the point of questioning if you can't get any answers to the questions

• Fusaro responds by saying that there are so many bigger things than us that we have to be okay with not knowing the answer to this and that people are a very small part of the universe
• Brings up Santa and how he gets the presents to everyone in such a short amount of time
• Brian asks what the point is of doing whatever we do if we don’t understand whats happening
• Fusaro responds by saying that it's the thought of free will
• Leyao brings up that instead of suffering being a result of our actions, it is actually part of humanity
• Fusaro states that we continue to question because in the future there may or may not be answers to some of the questions we ask

Reflection:

In class today, we discussed the topic of the three books of wisdom, mainly focusing on “The Book of Job”. We talked about how “The Book of Job” showed us many things about the universe that is incomprehensible for people. I learned today that in the old testament, the good people were rewarded for their actions, while the bad people were punished for their actions and that Satan was not “the devil”, but us people and our questions. Satan represented the questions everyone had and our curiosity to learn more about what we don’t know. People are unable to understand the complex actions that God has made, but we continue to ask questions in hopes of one day finding answers to them just like how we learned that earthquakes are caused by the shifting of tectonic plates, and not by God. I learned this because it helped me understand that people continue to ask questions that we have now in hopes of one day finding answers to them in the future. I can make use of this by asking questions about things I do not currently understand as a guideline for what I want to learn more about.