Reply #71: Job examined his life and could find nothing that he had done wrong [View All]

[AllyCat]

He could not understand why he was being punished and the three friends as well as others who came to visit him each suggested that he had done something. But there was nothing revealed that he had done wrong. Yet his suffering persisted (boils, family gone, famine). So the doctrine of retribution does not apply to Job. That is what we got from it.

Personally, I don't believe in the doctrine of retribution because a benevolent God does not punish us. I don't care what theology that contradicts. We punish ourselves and learn from our mistakes (hopefully).

In answering the OP about why God allows hurricanes, this was my answer. I personally, do not believe in a God that metes out punishment. The OP identified him/herself as a Christian and that is the perspective from which I answered the question.