Posted on July 19, 2011. Filed under: Endtimes, Environment and Ecology, Suffering, World | Tags: anti-social behaviour, Belgium, Book of Job, Chernobyl, Education, Environment, European Union, everyday live, Flanders, Fukushima, God, Human, Job, Labour economics, litter, misery, Natural disaster, natural law, Poverty, Suffering, welfare, Welfare state |
Self inflicted misery to bear 1. The root by man For some the Book of Job offers no simple answer to the problem of suffering. But it should shed a light on how nobody can escape the problems of this world and shall be able to find himself confronted with misery at one or another [...]
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Posted on June 24, 2011. Filed under: Being Christian, following Jesus Christ, Bible Study and Bible Reading, Christendom and Christianity, Endtimes, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Suffering, World | Tags: Abrahamic covenant, Almighty, Anointed, answer from God, argument, Bible, Bildad, Book of Job, children of God, Christendom and Christianity, control, creation, Creator deity, crime, disappointment, Elihu, Eliphaz, Evil, God, God speaking, gods, Gods desire, Gods Law, Gods Plan, Gods Power, Gods Wil, Gods Word, hearing, hearing God, Holy Spirit, iniquity, Jehovah, Jesus, Job, Law of Christ, Life, Messiah, omnipotent, oppressed, pitfall, poor, Poverty theology, Pray, Prayer, pride, Prosperity theology, reflect, Religion and Spirituality, resurrection, righteous person, rightheous, Salvation, Satan, silence of God, Suffering, Theology, thinking straight, Thought, transgression, trap, trial, worshipping, Yeshua |
As Kevin Miller writes in his blog article about Job “Job is a book of tragedy, foolish counsel, mourning, but also great strength.” For us it can be counted as such a real romantic film: Job begins and ends happy and cheery, but in-between we get drama of high calibre. By the end of the very [...]
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Posted on June 23, 2011. Filed under: Bible Study and Bible Reading, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Satan and Evil, Suffering | Tags: Accuser, Adversary, Adversary of God, Age, Almighty, animal, answer from God, authority, Bible, Bildad, Book of Job, Books of the Bible, breath, counsel, courage, covenant, creation, Creator, Creator deity, Day of Jehovah, Death, Elihu, Eliphaz, Elohim, Evil, evildoers, failure, faith, forgiving, God, God speaking, God's character, godliness, Gods knowledge, Gods Word, good people, Holy Spirit, Human, iniquity, Jehovah, Job, judgement, knowing God, Knowledge, listening, living creature, Lord of lords, nature, Old Testament, oppressed, oppressor, patience, Prayer, religiosity, resurrection, rise, Satan, Seasons, silence of God, Sin, spirit, spirit of human, Suffering, temporarily situation, terror, time, understanding, ungodliness, wealth, weather, wickedness, Wisdom, Zophar |
In his concluding speech in chapter 31, Job did demand that God appear before him, and in a sense, it is somewhat surprising for Elihu to appear instead. But can a man command God to appear? Do we have the right or authority to demand the Most High to appear before us? Job’s concluding remarks [...]
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Posted on June 21, 2011. Filed under: Bible Study and Bible Reading, Endtimes, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Satan and Evil, Suffering | Tags: Adversary, Adversary of God, Age, Aish HaTorah, Almighty, Bible, blessing, Book of Job, Church, commandments, Commandments of God, compassion, control, courage, Death, Deuteronomic code, doom preachers, Elihu, Eliphaz, eternal, Evil, false teachers, friendship of God, friendship of people, God, God speaking, Gods Power, good deeds, grave, Hades, happiness, Holy Scriptures, Holy Spirit, Insight, Jehovah, Jesus, Job, Judeo-Christian, judgement, Kushner H.S., Law of God, limits, Mitzvah, mortal, Noah, old age, Old Testament, order, pain, penalisation, perish, Pneuma, popularity, Prayer, Religion and Spirituality, Satan, silence of God, Suffering, Ten Commandments, Theology, time, Torah, unrightheous, weakness, wealth, Will of God, Wisdom |
We can imagine that people get scared when they hear certain preachers talking as the three friends of Job. As the wife of a Southern Baptist pastor writes in her blog that one pastor saying that all the troubles which befell Job were his fault because he spoke forth fear into his life. That alleviated some [...]
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Posted on June 20, 2011. Filed under: Bible Study and Bible Reading, Endtimes, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Jesus Christ Jeshua the Messiah Jahushua, Kingdom of God, Satan and Evil, Suffering | Tags: Adversary, Advocate with the Father, Almighty, ancient teachings, answer from God, Bildad, blaming God, Book of Job, Comforter, Commandments of God, curse, cursing God, Day of Jehovah, Death, destruction, distress, earth, Eliphaz, Elohim, Evil, evildoers, fear, foolishness, future, God, Gods knowledge, Gods Law, Gods Power, Gods son, grave, Helper, inheritance, innocence, Jehovah, Job, judgement, justice, King Jehovah of hosts, Kingdom of God, kinsman-redeemer, living god, mediator, meek, Old Testament, pain, perish, perversity, problems, punishment, Ransom, Redeemer, repent, resurrection, rich, righteousness, sinner, Suffering, tradition, transgressor, treasure, understanding, ungodly, unrighteous, vindication, vindicator, wicked, Wisdom, Zophar |
In the previous chapters the rampant evil in the world was described by Job (Job 24:2-24) and we have heard the speeches of Job’s friends who got to accuse him of gaining his now lost wealth by robbing the poor, withholding sustenance from the hungry and even abusing the weaker ones like widows and orphans. [...]
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Posted on June 19, 2011. Filed under: Bible Study and Bible Reading, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Life and Death, Satan and Evil, Suffering | Tags: Adversary, Adversary of God, Almighty, bad people, benefits, blameless, blessing, boldness, Book of Job, commandments, corruption, council, Day of vengeance, dead, Death, deceiver, destruction, Ecclesiastes, Eliphaz, Evil, evildoers, exhaltation, fear, God, good people, grave, graveyard, hearken, hope, humble, humbleness, innocence, innocent, Job, judgement, Knowledge, Life, listening, Lord, mighty, offspring, Old Testament, omnipotent, poor, power, property, Psalms, Redeemer, reproof, reward, Sin, solution, truth, understanding, ungodly, unrighteousness, vengeance, vindication, wicked, Wisdom |
Job and his friends agreed that God is omnipotent, omniscient, has all the wisdom and strength, is just, and perfectly good. They could bring forwards that an omniscient being knows every way in which evils can come into existence and has the power to prevent that evil from coming into existence. God can just say [...]
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Posted on June 18, 2011. Filed under: Bible Study and Bible Reading, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Life and Death, Satan and Evil, Suffering | Tags: Adversary, Adversary of God, Almighty, Bildad, Book of Job, courage, dead, Death, deity, desire, distress, dying, Eliphaz, Evil, fear, God, God's character, grave, Hades, iniquity, injustice, Job, Life, mortal, mortality, Old Testament, omnibenevolent, omnipotent, perish, problems, prosper, righteous person, Salvation, Sin, sleep, strenght, Suffering, transgression, ungodly, Universal deity, unrighteous, vanity, wicked, Wisdom, wrath, wrong doing, Zophar |
Etymologically the name Job could be related to the Hebrew word for “enemy,” with reference to either Job’s attitude to God or his response to suffering. The name might also be a contracted form of “Where is my father?” In Fragments from the Book of Job #1: chapters 1-12 we could find the blameless and upright [...]
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Posted on June 17, 2011. Filed under: Bible Study and Bible Reading, Life and Death, Satan and Evil, Suffering | Tags: blameless, Book of Job, Command of God, confidence, Death, Devil, Eliphaz, endure, Evil, God, hell, hope, horror, innocence, Jehovah, Job, judgement, Knowledge, Life, Lord of lords, mortal, Old Testament, pain, power, Ransom, Religion and Spirituality, righteous person, Sin, sinner, Sovereign of all, strenght, Suffering, terror, transgressor, trembling, understanding, ungodly, unrighteous, weak, wicked, wickedness, Wisdom, worshipping, wrath |
Fragments from the story of Job or Jobab (Job 42:17) and its numerous exegeses attempting to address the problem of evil. (Highlights ours, in purpose for the study on suffering and Gods hand in it. But please take your translation at hand and read the full chapters.) Brenton Translation 1851 by Lancelot Brenton Job Chapters [...]
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Posted on October 5, 2009. Filed under: Bezinning, Jehovah יהוה YHWH JHVH God Elohim Yahweh Jahweh, Lijden, Satan en het Kwaad | Tags: Adam, Boek Job, bron, duivel, gevallen engelen, God, goden, Heiland, Jezus, Job, Kores, kracht, kwaad, menselijke natuur, onheil, ramp, rechtvaardigheid, Satan, Schepper, Sodom, straf, straf van God, tuchtiging, Verlosser, vertrooster, vrijheid, zondeval |
Is God de Schepper van goed en kwaad? Afgelopen zaterdag spraken wij in de dienst over het kwaad en in welke mate God het toelaat en er aldus ook meester over is. Voor diegenen die geloven dat de duivel een gevallen engel is moet het kwaad dus reeds bestaan hebben voor de zondeval van Adam [...]
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