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To: NanaDory8
So God and the Devil place a wager between them.Poor Job loses everything,including his health and the lives of his children,Just so God can win the bet? This is the smart aleck answer and reward Job receives? And this is worthy to be praised? Ive never liked this story,how many more people are suffering because of wagers between God and the Devil?
7 posted on 01/10/2011 4:01:16 PM PST by Craftmore
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To: Craftmore

Ah, but God restored Job’s fortunes plus more. It was a test and he passed. Life is a test, or a rehearsal for eternity.


9 posted on 01/10/2011 6:45:06 PM PST by WVNan
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To: Craftmore
Christ said do not be afraid of the first death( body dying) but be afraid of the second death(eternal damnation).Matthew 10:28. This side of eternity we do not see the clarity of God. When Jobs family dies in the story. Do you think they went to the second death? I doubt that conclusion.

We all die(our bodies) anyway. Of course until the second coming. The soul is more important than the human body at least we see this all through scripture.

1 Corinthians 2:9 “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”[b]— the things God has prepared for those who Love Him—"

Also remember the mind of God.

1 Corinthian 2:13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.[c] 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for,

“Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?”[d]

But we have the mind of Christ.

So we have to remember we are in the mind of Christ. Father knows best.

Remember God's true love. He showed how much he loved us. He spread his arms wide towards you for an eternal hug by spreading them on wood for you. There is no greater love than to die for another as Christ reminds us.

May 2 Peter 3:18 Always!

Praise Jesus! AMEN!

17 posted on 01/11/2011 8:01:18 AM PST by johngrace (God so loved the world so he gave his only son! Praise Jesus and Hail Mary!)
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