God goes to great lengths in the bible to show us that if you make a bet against him, you will lose.  Take a look at this bet he places with Satan. I have paraphrased the following verses, please look at the actual verses for yourselves when you have time.

Job 1:8 – 12

God: Hey Satan look at how good Job is. Job is perfect and is not afraid of evil.

Satan: Hey God, I bet that I can turn your highly pious servant, Job, against you.

God: I bet you can’t.

Satan: Job is only so righteous because you take careful care to guard him with shrubberies and because you pamper him. If you would put your money where your mouth is and give me permission to test him, I think I would win the bet.

God: I accept your bet. I will grant you power over everything the Job has, but I will not allow you to touch Job himself.


Job 1:13-22

With the power given from God, Satan kills Job’s children, kills his servants, and kills his livestock. After all this, Job did not turn from God.



Job 2:3-6

God: See Satan, I told you so.

Satan: Meh. You merely allowed me to kill his children, servants and livestock. If you allow me to inflict Job himself, I will win the bet.

God: Fine. I will give you the power to torture Job, but I will not allow you to kill him.


Job 2:7-10

Satan inflicts Job with boils from head to foot. They were so bad that Job scratched at them with broken pottery. In all this Job did not turn form God.


Most of the rest of Job

Job goes through a long and trying ordeal and eventually pleads with God. God restores Job’s property and Job gets a new family. God does not bring back Job’s children from the dead, however.


Moral #1: God won his bet with Satan.

Moral#2: Killing Job’s children and torturing Job, while a tainted means, were justified by the end, which was God winning his bet with Satan.

Moral#3: The end justifies the means.

Unrelated Deep Thought:

"And so, if you get blown up or something, you go to Heaven, and that’s the worst thing that’ll happen to you."

Pat Robertson