Thursday, October 13, 2016

Holocaust Survivors: The search for Faith"

In the article "Holocaust Survivors: The Search for Faith", two holocaust survivors and their son talk about their faith after what happened to them in the holocaust. The father was always faithful to God and even tried to risk his life by putting on tefillin in the campsites. The mother still had faith in God but would never be able to forgive Him for putting her through the holocaust. She always asked "why did God have to to make so many people torture and die when He could have just killed Hitler and the Nazi's before anything happened?" The fathers response always was we never understand why God does things and if we were to understand why He does certain things it wouldn't be God doing it. This story is similar to the story of Job because in the story of Job, God tortures him and takes away everything from him just to test his faith. Job is very similar to the mother in the story of the holocaust survivors. They both questioned God why He did what He did to them. They both still had faith in God, just they didn't understand why God had to put them through so much torture. The two stories are different because in the holocaust story God tested and tortured many many people and in the story of Job he was the only one being tested. Also, in the holocaust story the father always believed in God and never questioned Him, where as in the Book of   Job, He questioned God as to why God did that to Him. 

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