Aw yeah!
Posted on 07/23/2013 4:10:11 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
Puny, the quote you gave us --- Job_15:15 "Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight"--- is not God or a prophet of God speaking. It is Eliphaz "the Temanite", the first of the three visitors of Job. He keeps telling Job that a good man could never suffer; therefore, since he is suffering, he must be cooncealing a sin. Job keeps protesting that he is not being devious about hidden sins, he is an honest man and yet here he is, suffering.
God declares at the end of the book that Eliphaz believed an erroneous view of divine dispensations. Job offers a sacrifice to God for Eliphaz's error.
The fact is, God often sends creatures --- human and angelic persons -- to have a hand in His work. It happens in every book of the Bible. "Here I am, Lord: send me."
If it were not so, the Bible would be meaningless --- or perhaps, republished as a 3-fold flyer --- because there would be nobody in it who could do anything significant, help anybody, or extend God's work as His ambassadors.
2 Corinthians 5:20
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, God making His appeal through us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
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My money is on Skeeter.
“It is Eliphaz “the Temanite”
Thank you. I am afraid that there are vast swaths of the Bible with which I am insufficiently familiar. My fault, not that of the Church.
I really need to buckle down and tackle the Book of Job in a serious way.
I find it useful to take 20 minutes or so before each day's Mass, and look up the lectionary readings, and then read the whole chapter (or if I have time, more than that) for context. Sometimes it sends me off flipping the pages for footnotes and cross-references and such. I'm continually amazed at what I find just 2 verses after the lectionary reading, or 2 verses before.
Aw yeah!
” I’m continually amazed at what I find just 2 verses after the lectionary reading, or 2 verses before.”
What a coincidence, eh?
Tell me about it... :o/
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