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To: pcottraux

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You are precisely right about the passage in Job. A lot of what Job’s “friends” said sounds pious and like wise sayings from God. They have that ring about them. But they were wrong. God said so Himself:

Job 42:7
And so it was, after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is aroused against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.”


4 posted on 04/14/2018 11:58:04 AM PDT by unlearner (A war is coming.)
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To: unlearner
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I used Job because it's one of the best examples of flipping through the Bible and stumbling across "great" scripture...only viewed through context, they're not so great after all. It's a great way to illustrate that believing the Bible is the Word of God doesn't necessarily mean that every isolated scripture is the absolute truth. If that were the case, we could pick out quotes from Satan and hail them as truth as well.

12 posted on 04/14/2018 12:43:50 PM PDT by pcottraux ( depthsofpentecost.com)
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To: unlearner

So much of prosperity gospel preaching sounds just like Jobs worthless friends.


14 posted on 04/14/2018 1:09:07 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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