Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: RnMomof7

The only book which to me seems not to belong is the Book of Job.

On the other hand, people a lot smarter than me included it so I must be wrong.


8 posted on 02/28/2015 5:37:39 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: yarddog

Paul quoted from Job in both Romans 11:35 and 1 Corinthians 3:19. James 5:11 refers to Job as an example of perseverance. And in Ezekiel 14:14, Job is mentioned along with Noah and Daniel. Those are a few reasons I believe it’s both historically true and inspired.

My pastor preached a series on Job over a period of six months or so. It was one of the most beneficial studies I’ve ever been through. It ended more than a year ago and people in my congregation are still discussing it. If you want to understand Satan and how the world system operates, study Job.


18 posted on 02/28/2015 6:00:03 PM PST by .45 Long Colt
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

To: yarddog

Job is a very interesting book. I have read it and marvel at it. Reputed to be one of the oldest books of the Bible, it has a reference to dinosaurs. Ecclesiastes and Job are enigmatic, books that do not make sense due to subject matter and their authors. But hey, what do we mere mortals know? Deut. 29; 29: The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

It appears we were not to know all things, just be happy we know what we know, and from the looks of history and the status quo, we are not.


31 posted on 02/28/2015 6:19:36 PM PST by Fungi (Evolution is piece by piece over billions of years. At what point did a precursor become a human?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

To: yarddog

Why do you think Job doesn’t belong? It has some of the greatest lessons in it about the proper perspective we should have on God in the whole Bible. Job learned to justify God, that God is perfectly righteous and the fault belonged to him because he concentrated on justifying himself rather than God. When things go wrong we can tend to become angry at God which is completely wrong. God is always right and all people deserve, apart from His grace, to go to hell.


104 posted on 03/01/2015 5:06:18 PM PST by Bellflower (The LORD is Holy, separated from all sin, perfect, righteous, high and lifted up.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson