The Book of Job, the Problem of Suffering, and Spiritual Awakening

Many Christians do not investigate – or even know about - the possibility of spiritual awakening because they do not hear about it from the pulpit or see examples of it in the Christian Bible. So they settle for a second-hand faith of believing in things. But the truth is that there are biblical examples hiding in plain sight. One of them is the Old Testament character of Job. 

Job is an Old Testament Buddha whose account of spiritual awakening is recorded in the Book of Job. The events that lead to both the Buddha’s and Job’s awakenings are similar, and I explain how. In this episode I investigate the age-old problem of suffering or problem of pain and see how it can act like a Zen koan to push us beyond theology and traditional religion into what is called unitive awareness or nondual awareness.

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