Answer to Job

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What Jung said in a book he wrote quite late in his life called Answer to Job.

One of my favorites.

Okay.

He's about as heretical as you can get.

He, uh, in his book Answer to Job he makes the claim that the Assumption of Mary putting, uh, should have made her co-equal with the Trinity and would therefore create a better Christianity.

He's a weird guy.

Uh.

Like the closer you get to the Gospels, a lot of people don't appreciate how small percentage-wise the New Testament makes up, and the Gospels are just like a fragment of this massive tome of work.

Have you ever heard of the book Answer to Job?

By the way, you have to understand, he's talking about this progressivism of basically that the Gospels brought this progressive idea of who God is.

Now, I don't think that that's true.

Carl Jung? Have you read any Carl Jung? It's been a long time.

I did in college, but what's it called again?

Answer to Job.

And his his I mean, he wasn't a he appreciated the Bible for archetype theory, but his idea was that Job in particular represented a turning point in the, I guess, consciousness of God in the Bible or like our understanding of God, because God seems to go through this moral development as a as a result of his interaction with Job, where Job Job stands and he's just, you know, why why have why has this happened to me and god seems to during that monologue that he gives to go through this interesting kind of self-reflective moment where he's maybe realizing oh maybe i shouldn't mess with people in this way or you know whatever that's just jung's uh jung's interpretation of it but clearly there is a difference in the old testament to the new testament and this is to

Yes, absolutely.

And remember as well that, of course, Jung, towards the end of his life, is still working with this idea of what does he mean to have the fear of God? After all, that's one of the key notions, isn't it, in 1952 in Answer to Job, where he talks about what is it about God that we must fear? So I think you're absolutely right to make that connection.

Thank you.

And we could keep talking, I think, for hours and hours, but I don't want to wear you out too

You know, the God-man.

Jung says at the end of one of his books, it's called Answer to Job, he says, God didn't incarnate himself just once in Jesus Christ.

God wants to incarnate himself in all of us.

So we become incarnations as well in that sense of having this spiritual component that we have sort of built into our self-awareness.