HEYYYYYY-O! I made it so that anyone can post WITHOUT having to make a profile. Just tell us your name please!!! Today's readings are:
Old Testament Reading Job 1; Job 2; Job 3 NIV
New Testament Reading Matthew 18:10-35 NIV
Psalms Reading Psalm 16:1-11 NIV
Read them, then post your thoughts (unless you have no thoughts). [I'm sure you do.] HOW FUN IS THIS??? We're starting the book of Job today. That is always interesting. Job is thought to be one of the older known manuscripts in the OT. Read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Job
and here...
Job
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright 2008 Columbia University Press.
Job , book of the Bible. The book is of unknown authorship and date, although many scholars assign it to a time between 600 BC and 400 BC A lament in narrative form, the subject is the problem of good and evil in the world: "Why do the just suffer and the wicked flourish?" In the prose prologue Satan obtains God's permission to test the unsuspecting Job, whom God regards as "a perfect and an upright man" ; accordingly, all that Job has is destroyed, and he is physically afflicted. The main part of the book is cast in poetic form and consists of speeches by Job and three friends who come to "comfort" him: Job speaks, then each of the three speaks in turn, with Job replying each time; there are three such cycles of discussion, although the third is incomplete. The friends insist alike that Job cannot really be just, as he claims to be, otherwise he would not be suffering as he...
Job , book of the Bible. The book is of unknown authorship and date, although many scholars assign it to a time between 600 BC and 400 BC A lament in narrative form, the subject is the problem of good and evil in the world: "Why do the just suffer and the wicked flourish?" In the prose prologue Satan obtains God's permission to test the unsuspecting Job, whom God regards as "a perfect and an upright man" ; accordingly, all that Job has is destroyed, and he is physically afflicted. The main part of the book is cast in poetic form and consists of speeches by Job and three friends who come to "comfort" him: Job speaks, then each of the three speaks in turn, with Job replying each time; there are three such cycles of discussion, although the third is incomplete. The friends insist alike that Job cannot really be just, as he claims to be, otherwise he would not be suffering as he is. Nevertheless, Job reiterates his innocence of wrong. The sequence changes with the appearance of a fourth speaker, Elihu, who accuses Job of arrogant pride. He in turn is followed by God himself, who speaks out of a storm to convince Job of his ignorance and rebuke him for his questioning. The prose epilogue tells how God rebukes the three friends for their accusations and how happiness is restored to Job. The author did not intend to solve the paradox of the righteous person's suffering, but rather to criticize a philosophy that located the cause of suffering in some supposed moral failure of the sufferer. The texts are imperfect, and there may be serious losses, misplacements, or even additions to the original. The book contains many eloquent passages; among them are Job's declaration of faith in the "redeemer," his speech on wisdom, and God's discourse on animals. Job is mentioned elsewhere in the Bible.
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Thanks for starting this Nathan!
ReplyDeleteJOB 2:13 is the scene where Job is un-recognizable from bodily affliction, and has lost all of his treasures and family (minus his wife, who serves as a discouragement to Job so far in this story; "CURSE GOD AND DIE!" is what she keeps saying! GEEEZ woman!!). He is afflicted, and his three friends come, and sit with him grieving for 7 days without saying a word to him, WITH him. They do this because they can see how great his suffering is. That is a beautiful thing. What follows after the 7 days is the four of them trying to figure life out in community. There are no definitive answers, but I liked this model. Grieving with those who grieve (Romans 12:14-16) is also what we are called to. We are also called to find "answers" to the unanswerable questions in community - in relationship. Spoiler Alert: The book itself (Job) does not offer definitive answers for the problem of why "bad things happen to good people", but instead turns that question on it's head and insists that we change the way we think about God, His relationship with us, and the world we live in. For those things we cannot understand, and don't seem to have answers for anywhere, we turn to the Christian community for guidance and fellowship under the watch of the Holy Spirit.
ReplyDeleteYeah, no prob Julie! I think it should be a really good thing for us. I hope people join in the readings, and conversation!
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