Job, Satan, and Us

Hi Al,

 

We talk about how God blessed Job.  The first chapter says that he had a lot of animals and servants and he was the greatest of all the people of the east. No hint of special blessing by God so I presume Job was a good business man.

 

The last chapter says that his brothers and sisters showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold. Allowing for the writer being inspired does that mean he believed the Lord brought evil upon Job? If not did he, as politicians often do, misspeak?

 

In verse 12 it says the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. Does that support the televangelists when they tell us if we stay faithful to God we will be rich? If not, does it mean God treated Job differently than he treats everyone else? If not what does it mean.

 

We also talk a lot about Satan walking around looking for people he can tempt into sinning. If we need Satan for us to sin what does James mean when he wrote each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire?  If we need Satan for us to sin, who tempted Satan to rebel against God?

 

Did you catch Jim's categorizing of sin as bad sins? I wonder if he is one of the folks who thinks gay people are worse sinners than those who lie or are gluttons… or even a worse sinner than those in the class. It seems to me the Bible does not support that way of thinking.

 

Might be nice to try to understand some things we normally ignore due to time constraints.

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John Jenkins
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