The Book of Job: God’s Love Letter to the Less-Than-Certain

How does God react when we are angry or feel mistreated by the Divine?

Join us at The Hearth where Kim McCall will lead us through a discussion of how the Book of Job gives us a window into just such interactions. 

In the Book of Job, an ancient prophet/poet interrogates God's justice and whether there is a connection between goodness and blessedness. Defying the standard view found in Deuteronomy and the Book of Mormon, and repeatedly urged by his friends, our hero professes his innocence and complains bitterly that God is mistreating him.

Stubbornly defiant — even angry with God — rather than submissive, Job models a very different kind of "God fearing" human than the one promoted by King Benjamin and much of scripture. The result? He encounters a powerful, mysterious God speaking out of a whirlwind.

Is Job right to defy God? What attitude toward God actually gets rewarded? The Book advances a radical, liberating view of what makes a person a true "servant" of God. Finally, while most scholars find it silent on why bad things happen to good people, read from a Mormon perspective it hints at an intriguing and fruitful answer.

Kim McCall is a life-long member of the LDS Church, where he finds meaning and joy in serving and sharing. Kim received a BA in Philosophy and an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University. He has published essays on an LDS approach to the Problem of Evil and on the grounds of moral obligation within an organized (not ex nihilo) universe.

Kim enjoys studying the scriptures, where he frequently finds meaning and messages he hasn’t heard in class or over the pulpit.