So what do you say if someone says to you, “See, there’s an example of things that science now explains. I don’t need a God, because I believe in science, and someday we’ll be able to explain the other stuff we can’t explain today”?
Have you ever wondered why sometimes Psalms end in a weird way? The same literary device -- a chiasm -- is used in Job today, too. What's the big deal?
The word "telos" is an important concept in the Bible, it's important to Hebrews 11, and then we have a surprise by how it connects to our reading in Job.
Like other "epistles," Hebrews begins with doctrinal issues and ends with application. "How, now, shall we live?" is a good question, one the author begins answering today.
The theme of Job is often (usually?) thought to be how to deal with suffering. But as Dr. John Sailhamer argues (in today's Focus Question), that falls short of the point.
C.S. Lewis famously said, “Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” But if we’re not listening to His voice, suffering will lie to you.
C.S. Lewis famously said, “Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” But if we’re not listening to His voice, suffering will lie to you.
