Notes on The Book of Job

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Notes on The Book of Job
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Notes on Job Suffering

• Suffering is the result of a test or of a contest
  between God and Satan.
• Suffering has demonic or Satanic causes.

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Notes on Job Suffering

• Job willingly accepts the suffering and does not
  ignore the past goodness of God.
• His protests are acceptable because he does not
  curse God.

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Notes on Job Sin and Suffering

• The relationship between sin and suffering is
  problematic because Job is innocent.
• Jobs three friends maintain that Jog is
  suffering because of his sin or the sin of his
  children.

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Notes on Job Sin and Suffering

• Job says so
• 624 Make me understand how I have gone wrong.
• 630 Is there any wrong in my tongue?
• 915 Though I am innocent . . .

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Notes on Job Sin and Suffering

• The narrator says so
• 11 The man was perfect an upright.
• 210 in all this Job did not sin with his lips.

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Notes on Job Sin and Suffering

• Yaweh says so
• 2 Has thou considered my servant Job, that there
  is none like him in the earth, a perfect and
  upright man, one that feareth God, ans escheweth
  evil?

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Notes on Job Sin and Suffering

• God does not tell Job the reason for his
  suffering.
• Gods wisdom is inaccessible, or it is too
  complicated for human beings to understand.