"Where Were You, God?"

HiTech RedNeck | 5/19/2013 | HiTech RedNeck

[HiTech RedNeck]

Should remarried widowers go around with sad faces because of your pontifications on morality? Job’s life was never “perfect” on earth — just joyful.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Angels have lesser capacities in some way than men, though they are bestowed with stronger powers in the capacities they do have. From the bible, an angel can be all good or all bad, but never redeemed or saved. That is why angels long to look into the redemption of mankind. It is an exotic sight to them.

[Biggirl]

Just BELIEVE!

[PieterCasparzen]

I’ve talked to priests in my parish, and didn’t really feel any better.

Am I missing something? I was never much on Chinese riddles, and vague answers to questions don’t help.

I'd recommended starting with the Westminster Confession of Faith; you'll find reference links to proof texts from the Bible.

One will come to understand, with careful study, that the Bible (and life) is not a simple a,b,c recipe. There are numerous aspects to Biblical doctrine that apply to life situations.

There will be "highs" and "lows" while you study until you get to a certain point.

But you needn't worry ! If you will be converted, saved, one day before you die, then God knew you from before the foundations of the world and you have your appointed place among his elect. God never abandons his own.

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to serve, not be served. He is the firstborn among many, and it is for the believer to continually try to be ever more Christ-like.

[sauropod]

I have the same sense. This generation is a foolish one...

[MosesKnows]

The last 12 years of my life causes me to question a higher power.

Always question but only after accepting the offer of salvation to live a new life in faith and grace being born again brings.

John 3:3
Jesus answered him, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that unless a person is born again, he cannot ever see (know, be acquainted with, and experience) the kingdom of God.

2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if any person is in Christ he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!

The next 12 years are in your hands.

[James C. Bennett]

Should remarried widowers go around with sad faces because of your pontifications on morality?

The inability to know why their former spouses were taken away from them and the limited nature of life is why they must remarry and try to regain some of the happiness taken away from them. Job's case was different. He knew who took away his family, and knew later that it was part of his god's test to him. His former family blotted out and replaced like a manufactured commodity, as if the past didn't matter.

[James C. Bennett]

God has to please angels with exotic sights like that, now?
To what end? And for what purpose?

[PieterCasparzen]

Sappy nonsense in the guise of comfort is more annoying than anything else.

It's only comforting for believers; unbelievers reject God and hate the truth.

The only peace and comfort unbelievers have is in this life, of worldly things.

And when they die, they can't take those things with them.

And so there is no purpose to all their worldly graspings.

It was all vanity (a waste).

Read Ecclesiastes (the preacher), it tells all about vanity.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I respect your Presbyterian/Calvinist background; I am not as Calvinist as I had been earlier in my Christian life, but some of the rough edges were knocked off by a realization that God isn’t limited to time, and can frame-in free will without negating it or its consequences or His power to rule over the overall sweep of eternity. Perhaps as though space-time were a large canvas curved around the Lord whose details He can fill out in any logical sequence He chooses as long as He does not reveal His work falsely to any creature at any point the creature is made aware of, which would make Him a liar or not self consistent. The bible does not depend on such an explanation, and other possible explanations may exist, but it is, as it were, an illustration that such an explanation can exist.

[Secret Agent Man]

Someone else wrote exactly on the same subject you did. Have you read anything by a guy named Job?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Maybe the good angels enjoy it? You were suggesting that God isn’t good?

[HiTech RedNeck]

You didn’t read the rest of my post did you...

[HiTech RedNeck]

He MIGHT have known about that. It is uncertain who penned the book. And even if he did, are you saying God could not have grown his faith to the point it embraced and appreciated God’s goodness in the face of the setbacks?

[GBA]

Job was God winning that hand with Satan in the game they were playing, but Jesus was His ultimate trump card.

Satan went all in and threw EVERYTHING he had at Jesus, but nothing he could do could shake Jesus. Nothing. All the way from manger to being hung to die on the cross, Jesus could not be broken, shaken or stirred away from God.

That, was that. Game over. God absolutely beat Satan to a pulp with Jesus. Nothing Satan can do will change that or undo it. Not that he hasn't tried.

There's been and will be some more temper tantrums, devious schemes and whatnot, which have already killed millions and caused untold and incalculable pain and suffering, until the very end when Satan comes back for the grand finale with everything he's got.

And we know how that ends. We just don't know how we end...

[Secret Agent Man]

just saw it :-)

[HiTech RedNeck]

I concur.

[James C. Bennett]

The only peace and comfort unbelievers have is in this life, of worldly things.

Having family and friends to enjoy the company of, is not "worldly". Neither are these things excluded to those who cannot indulge in fantasy beings and worlds. Only a blind fool brainwashed by dogma can come to that idiotic conclusion. I pity the empty lives of such people.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Why do the good suffer is an old problem never satisfactorily solved. Logically, God is a different order of being about whom analogies to human thought, behaviors and feelings are not really valid.

[PieterCasparzen]

Read the story. Just a gambling game. Poor Job just a chip in the pile.

That's not the point of the book of Job. I'd suggest that you might understand more if you studied it with the aid of some quality Reformed Bible commentaries.

Matthew Henry's are available on http://www.biblegateway.com if you use the King James version.