I truly mean no offense, but it seems to me that God's answer of, "It's a god thing; you wouldn't understand" is a cop-out. I have more respect for the spirits who visited Scrooge and showed him. If God is omnipotent, why could He not know how to let Job grasp that fullness of understanding?
I truly mean no offense, but it seems to me that God's answer of, "It's a god thing; you wouldn't understand" is a cop-out. I have more respect for the spirits who visited Scrooge and showed him. If God is omnipotent, why could He not know how to let Job grasp that fullness of understanding?
Well, the "show me" part -- is -- the entirety of mankind from the Garden of Eden, through the present time -- and then -- up to and through (to the end of) the Millennial Kingdom on this earth (one part of it spoken about in Revelation 20).
In other words, the entirety of mankind and its existence and what has happened and all the things that God has done and how He has worked His will in and through mankind's existence -- is and will be the "show me" of "eternity hereafter"...
There are periods of times that God has worked with mankind, in which some in theological circles call "dispensations" in which God has a particular "show me" part that He is demonstrating to mankind (which will be told forever after, throughout eternity). We're living in the "textbook" for eternity -- at this present time.
[You'll note my reference to "Dispensationalism" on my home page, and that's part of it...]
You are the "textbook example" (as we all are) as we speak and write -- right now.
We're currently living in a "show me" existence -- which will finally be over, at the end of the Millennial Kingdom after that 1,000 year reign of the Messiah of Israel, and then comes the Great White Throne Judgement (of Revelation 20) in which all is done and finished. From that point forward (and you can read in Revelation 21 and on) we are in the "eternal state" with the "show me" part of human existence over and done with. Only the "textbook" will be left for all eternity.
You were saying ...
If God is omnipotent, why could He not know how to let Job grasp that fullness of understanding?
God has given mankind a "progressive revelation" of Himself and what He's doing, from the time of the Garden of Eden to the present time. And we're still not in the fullness of understanding, even at this point.
There will be a fuller understanding in the future, from here forward, just as there has been progressive revelation to us from the past up to now.
During the Millennial Kingdom here on earth, the fullness of the knowledge of God will expand greatly and be much more than it is now.
It's like asking -- when reading a book -- "Why don't I know the whole story right in the first chapter?" Well..., you'll know the whole story when you get to the end of the book. We haven't gotten to the end of the book yet -- the book that is mankind's history and how God has interacted with mankind from the beginning and all the way through to the end of the Millennial Kingdom.