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  • La Création, mystère insondable

    Submitted on 04. Apr 2008

    Une quête de sens acharnée habite les longues méditations et répliques du livre de Job. Job se révolte contre un Dieu qui lui a ôté ses biens et ses enfants, sa santé et sa dignité. Job est dans la tourmente et ses amis cherchent à le consoler et... à défendre la justice de Dieu. Pour les amis de Job tout s’explique : le malheur de Job est nécessairement la conséquence de son péché, sa souffrance est une correction pénible mais utile...

  • Learning humility

    Submitted on 04. Apr 2008

    Let us therefore note well that God wanted to humiliate us here, and correct that pride which is in us, the more so because we cannot keep ourselves within measure. Why is that? Because we do not think either of him or of his works. But there is no need for us to mount up as high as God’s majesty, to be humiliated; the beasts can teach us, they will be our masters; for we are not worthy of other doctors to instruct us than these.

    John Calvin, Commentary on Job

  • The Creation, unfathomable mystery

    Submitted on 04. Apr 2008

    A passionate quest for meaning inhabits the long meditations and arguments of the book of Job. Job is in revolt against a God who has taken away his possessions and his children, his health and his dignity. Job is in torment, and his friends try to comfort him...and to defend God’s justice. For Job’s friends, everything can be explained: Job’s misfortunes are necessarily the consequences of his sin, and his suffering is a painful corrective, but a useful one...

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