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In addition, Job is mentioned in the New Testament of the Christian Bible: the Epistle of James paraphrases Job as an example of patience in suffering. Job's declaration, "I know that my redeemer liveth" , is considered by some Christians to be a proto-Christian reference to Christ as the Redeemer, and is the basis of several Christian hymns ...
Chapters 6 and 7 record Job's response after the first speech of Eliphaz (in chapters 4 and 5), which can be divided into two main sections: [11] Job 6: Job answers Eliphaz's misdirected words. Job 7: Job addresses God. [11] The pattern of first speaking to the friends and then turning to God is typical of Job throughout the dialogue. [11]
[15] The Bible portrays God as inflicting evil in both senses because its writers "regarded God as the ultimate Cause of evil." [16] The Bible contains examples of suffering caused by nature that are attributed to God, [17] as well as examples of suffering caused by humans that are attributed to God. [18]
Since God is in dominion over all the earth, Job cannot conceivably condemn him, unless Job were to prove that he can do all the things God can. [40]: Chapter 3:Job God's second speech is against human self-righteousness. Job has vehemently accused God of thwarting justice as "the omnipotent tyrant, the cosmic thug".
Job is wrong to accuse God of injustice, as God is greater than human beings, and; the visitors are not correct either; for suffering, far from being a punishment, may "rescue the afflicted from their affliction". That is, suffering can make those afflicted more amenable to revelation – literally, "open their ears" (Job 36:15). [68] [66]
The first speech in chapter 33 opens with a citation of Job's charges (Job 33:8–11), followed by a rejection to Job's argument about God's silence (Job 33:12–13), that, according to Elihu, God speaks in a variety of ways (Job 33:14): through dreams (Job 33:15–18), through suffering (Job 33:19–22) and through messengers (angels; Job 33: ...
The last image we have of Patrick Cagey is of his first moments as a free man. He has just walked out of a 30-day drug treatment center in Georgetown, Kentucky, dressed in gym clothes and carrying a Nike duffel bag.
Although there are differing opinions in Christian circles about the impassibility of God, Christian scholars consent that Jesus was completely human and completely God, and so expressed sanctified emotions and was subject to the same physical limitations as humanity, such as hunger or exhaustion. Most Christians traditionally believed these ...