Why Do Innocent People Suffer? (The Spiritual Argument as Presented in Job)

It is a fact of life that innocent people suffer. We need to look no further than our own lives. We see it all over the world, but why? Why do people suffer so gruesomely? Well, there is an entire book of the Bible that attempts to deal with this question. In the book of Job, the answer to the question “Why do innocent people suffer?” is twofold and I will explain that here. Firstly, we should note something that the reader is told. This is the spiritual origins of Job’s suffering in the first two chapters of the text. In the first chapter — after Job’s righteousness is established (Job 1:1), we move to a heavenly scene and it is written: “Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them,” (Job 1:6 ESV). The Hebrew here for the term “sons of god” is “bene ‘Elohim” which literally means “sons of gods” (Heiser 2001, Kee 2007). Ancient cultures also had a similar concept where a council of gods would meet headed by a high God like El for example. <a href="https://medium.com/@ThatChristianNerd/why-do-innocent-people-suffer-the-spiritual-argument-as-presented-in-job-2d3b443f528b">Learn More</a>