More Notes @ JOB from my Pastor Here
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Jobs struggles and the Divine Speeches
God inspired this book to reveal answers to questions that arise from God’s nature and His ways with human beings. Specifically, what is the basis on which God deals with people? Elsewhere in the Old Testament we find God typically repaying good with good and evil with evil, but that is not how He dealt with Job.
“How can a God who elsewhere in Scripture is described as the very essence of love and grace initiate or even allow suffering in the lives of His saints? How can His attributes be reconciled with His actions, especially when those actions appear to run counter to all He claims to be?” “The book of Job deals essentially with man’s relationship with God, centering on two questions. The first question is, Why does man worship God? . . .“The second question is, How will man react to God when God seems unconcerned about his problems?
