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3.10.12

The Will does not necessarily have human good in mind. And it seems to me that the book of Job supports this conclusion. The friends of Job said God is Just. God said to Job that they were wrong. The whole book supports this. The narrator says openly that Job was suffering because of a bet that the Satan made with God, not because of sin. He makes an effort right straight at the beginning of the book to declare that Job was without sin. Later, his friends said he was suffering because of sin, and that God always acts justly. God said at the end of the book that the friends were wrong. Now, it is true that God does help people in ways that seem to come from a world that is higher than this world. But this is in the realm that is not possible to understand by human understanding.[The is a Kantian idea about the realm that was known as the second level of Metaphysics]