Job: A Poem About Pain Part 1 Job 1-2, excerpts from 3-31 August 14, 2016
Tips for Reading Job
Remember the Backstory (Job 1-2)
Allow the text to be vague
This is a scenario, not policy
Satan and Suffering
The Accuser… Accuses (Job 1:9-11, 2:4-5)
Satan brings about the suffering (Job 1:12-19, 2:6-7)
God allows it (Job 1:8-12, 2:3-6, Luke 22:31-34)
With Friends like these…(Job 16:2)
Jobs struggle to understand (Job 3, 9:14-20, 13:20-27, 21)
Assumptions that wound (Job 4:7-9, 8:4-7, 11:6, 15:17-35, 18:5)
How has God structured the universe?
A Truly Biblical Story for today
Satan is the Accuser (Zechariah 3:1-2, Revelation 12:10)
A Truly Innocent Sufferer (Job 19:25)
For Now, God is Silent