The Question of Faith in the Odyssey and the Book of Job
             From a very young age we are thought about faith, which is the belief and trust in loyalty of a god. No matter what the religion there is always a god that followers are told to believe in, and in doing so he or she would be helped in his or her time of hardship by this god and in the end be rewarded.
             In Christianity and Judaism there is God and in Islam there is Allah. In other cultures, the people believe in more than one god. The Greeks believed in a number of gods and goddesses, including Zeus, Hera, Poseidon and Aphrodite. In Hinduism there are also a number of gods and goddesses, including the gods Vishnu, Shiva, and Hanuman and the goddess Lakshmi.
             No matter how different the religion and the practices of these religions, followers all have faith in their gods. They believe in the teachings and always try to do what the gods want them to do.
             Homer's The Odyssey, and The Book of Job, from the Bible are two different stories, but are similar in the fact that the main characters exhibit great faith in a god to help them through hard times, and because of this they are greatly assisted by their god during their trials and tribulations.
             In the Odyssey, Odysseus, the main character, is on a long journey back to his homeland, Ithaca, after fighting in the Trojan War. On his way, he encounters many different obstacles, which in one way or another try to keep him from returning to his home and to his wife, Penelope. Yet, by keeping his faith in the goddess Athena, she was able to help him a number of times and in the end he reaches his destination.
             In The Book of Job, the main character is Job, a rich man, with wealth unmatched by anyone in his land. He also lives a very wholesome life, and was a man who feared God. Then in one day because of a bet between God and Satan, Job has everything of importance to him, including his children, taken from him.
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