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I think there is a lot of metaphor and figurative tales/stories in the Bible. I think it's just another book written and maintained by humans. Since it's about spirituality, i believe there are hints of spiritual lessons in the Bible as well. That's where i stand with any written religion and/or even philosophical spiritual theories. In particular to Job, his story is one of many that don't make sense to me and/or are stories that contradict god being omniscient. For ex, another being Adam and Eve. Why would god be surprised they disobeyed him? He would have known the second he created both what would happen. Now, this doesn't make sense to me as to the Biblical religion... but it does make sense to me in my own spiritual thoughts. Bc i truly believe no consciousness/intelligence would stay as an infinite being. To be infinite would mean to be everything... from beginning to end, what i call the ultimate spoiler. I believe we can dip are feet into the infinite knowledge, but i believe there is a bell curve of how long one would stay that way... for me, i would say maybe a second, no longer than 10 seconds, lol. Therefore, an infinite source wouldn't stay infinite in the Omni sense. I Believe there is a process of "shutting down" away from the source. I think this source can stay in an infinite state, but would restrict itself away from being the Omni's. So a "God" can be something like Odin... fully knowledgeable of its universe and destiny, maybe, but never fully all knowing, and even Odin wouldn't want to know it's "the god." Bc then, nothing matters. What a horrible existence it would be to be an entity that is omniscient... well, actually, more like omniscient to all realities. A character can be like a super hero omniscient, but only to a level... never to the whole picture, or i shouldn't say "never" ... maybe just for a few seconds. I believe when you go into that state which is basically all of our true home, it will be so overwhelming that the process of shutting it off happens within a blink of an eye.
Above is my reasoning, "God is restricted by its own choice." Bc who'd not be? But, i'm still curious how religious people explain these contradictions. Bc there are many examples/stories in the Bible that don't make sense to me if god is Omniscient... why do anything? Why test anyone? Do we even truly have free will when god knows what he created us for and what will happen? The only answer would be god shutting off its omniscience... but if that's true, the implications lead towards a much different platform.