How depressed would you be if….(your life is worth 10 points, take away

as many points from your life as you think this situation deserves)

• you lost your possessions in a burglary• You got sacked from your job• Your house got burned down• Your wife/ husband left you• your brothers/ sisters all died in an

earthquake• You got a horrible skin disease

Summarise the story of Job 1. How Satan challenged God & what God

allowed Satan to do Job 1:112. The things Satan caused Job to suffer –

briefly mention some of them Job 1:13-183. Write out Job’s reply Job 2:10**Do you agree with Job’s attitude? Would you have reacted in the same way? Why/ why not?

Bildad: “ God cannot be unjust, and God does not do evil - therefore God must be repaying you justly for your sins. “

Zophar: “Don’t worry. If you are innocent, your suffering will be soon over - and God will yet fill your mouth with laughter”.

Eliphaz: You mock God when you say “I am sinless!” God is punishing you for this pride!

Job’s friends came to see him, and tried to make sense of his suffering. 1. Draw a stick person version of each of Job’s 3 friends. Speech bubble a

summary of what each of them is saying. 2. What is your answer? Why do you think Job is suffering?

Watch the video. What was God’s answer to Job ?

Is it a good answer?

To know the story of Job

To explain how Job made sense of his suffering

To reflect on whether Job and Aquinas provide a good explanation of suffering.

God’s AnswerGod appeared to Job and replied :

“I am God, great and awesome. My ways are beyond your understanding. Now you have seen My greatness and power, you will know you can only be silent before Me .

And God blessed Job twice as much as he had before, and blessed the end of his days more than his beginning.

1. What is God saying?2. Do you think this is a good response? Is suffering a mystery of God, beyond our understanding?

Job could not see any point to his suffering.

Does that make his suffering easier or harder to bear? **Have you ever felt like Job does?

You are all wrong! There is no reason to my suffering ! I certainly have not done anything to

deserve it!

THEALMIGHTY

Draw your own slogan, to show God’s answer to Job about the Problem of Evil.