To: kosta50; Agrarian; Forest Keeper; jo kus; annalex; Dr. Eckleburg
Obviously, Job was "perfect" in that sense because he never blamed God for his misfortunes. And God knew it. Interestingly enough, I was reading Job the other day. While Job might not have blamed God for his misfortunes, God states that He was the cause of Job's misfortunes.
The Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man fearing God and turning away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause."
Although Satan was responsible for what fell upon Job, it was all under God's divine permission-a fact that God pointedly refers to. Nothing can happen without God's permission and God looks upon it as He is responsible in allowing things to happen although He is not the perpetrator of evil events.
7,996 posted on
06/07/2006 6:10:54 AM PDT by
HarleyD
("Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures" Luke 24:45)
To: HarleyD; Agrarian; Forest Keeper; jo kus; annalex; Dr. Eckleburg
[Re: Job]
Nothing can happen without God's permission and God looks upon it as He is responsible in allowing things to happen although He is not the perpetrator of evil events Interestingly, we have developed the idea of "command responsibility" in the post-WWII judicial system. The person in charge is responsible even if he or she never directly participated but somehow allowed a crime to be committed while they are in command.
This was the basis for the Nuerenberg trials and the subsequent bad imitations of the same. Yet, we do not see any "command responibility" in the case of Job. We separate the soldier from the Commander, and blame, curiously, the solders for a suggestion and not the Decision-Maker.
If satan could entice God to ruin Job for no apaprent cause, than how could God punish Adam and Eve for letting the devil talk them into eating the forbidden fruit?
8,002 posted on
06/07/2006 6:24:50 AM PDT by
kosta50
(Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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