{
 "id": "basics-rhet-why-did-satan-attack-job",
 "question": "Why did Satan attack Job?",
 "answer": "God directed Satan's attention to Job. God asked the one question the enemy surely did not want to hear: \"Have you considered My servant Job?\" Satan's answer was an accusation: he charged Job with selfishness, claiming that if God touched Job's body, Job would curse Him. Because he so maliciously despises God, Satan feels vindicated when he can move any believer to malign God's character.",
 "url": "/faq/basics-rhet-why-did-satan-attack-job/",
 "unit": 5,
 "lesson": "5-3",
 "lesson_title": "The Attack—Satan's Strategy",
 "question_type": "rhetorical",
 "tier": 1,
 "faq_class": "rhetorical",
 "aeo_questions": [
  "What prompted Satan to launch an attack on Job?",
  "Why did Satan think Job would curse God if his health was affected?",
  "What was Satan's motive behind accusing Job of selfishness to God?"
 ],
 "topic_anchor": null,
 "derivation": "extracted-rhetorical",
 "source_authority": "authoritative",
 "author": "Gene Cunningham",
 "book": "The Basics",
 "source": {
  "doc_id": "btbm-01-TheBasics-8-10-24",
  "book_page": [
   249,
   250
  ],
  "ref": "The Basics, Lesson 5-3 — The Attack—Satan's Strategy (p.249–250)",
  "review_row": "rq-p261-cbc1a518",
  "pdf_page": 261,
  "para_id": "the-basics-p0261-003",
  "printed_question": "Then God asks the one question the enemy surely does not want to hear: “Have you considered My servant Job?”"
 },
 "scripture": [
  {
   "display": "Job 1:5, 11",
   "osis": null,
   "book_pages": []
  },
  {
   "display": "Job 2:3, 5, 10",
   "osis": null,
   "book_pages": []
  }
 ],
 "topics": [
  "Satan"
 ],
 "topics_context": [
  "Job",
  "Plan of God and Satan",
  "Power and angelic conflict",
  "Suffering of Job",
  "goal of Satan",
  "strategy and tactics of Satan",
  "Plan of God",
  "Race of life",
  "Spiritual warfare",
  "Testing",
  "Angels, fallen",
  "Discipline, divine",
  "Peter, the apostle",
  "Power of Satan"
 ],
 "printed_pages": [
  249,
  250
 ],
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