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LittleDavid View Profile History	WHY WAS RIGHTEOUS JOB FALSELY ACCUSED BY HIS “FREINDS”, why were they soooo wrong?? Posted : 2 Jun, 2020 08:09 AM The book of Job helps to identify assumptions held by Job’s friends which resulted in false accusations against Job. Unfortunately these assumptions are still being applied against those who suffer. In Deuteronomy 28, God says good things will happen to Israel if they obey but if they disobey bad things will happen. This verse and others seem pretty clear cut. Good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people. But Job was a very good man. In fact, even God said there was no man on earth as righteous as Job. Yet more bad things happened to Job than to those less righteous or to those who are downright evil. Then there was Jesus who was completely sinless. Yet he was falsely accused, suffered much and eventually hung on a cross to suffer more and die. And what about what Jesus said here: Luke 13 Repent or Perish 13 Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 2 Jesus answered, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? 3 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. 4 Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.” I realize l removed verses from original contexts and more could be said about that. But the issue I’m trying to address concerns the formation of the unproven assumptions used by Job’s friends. What lead Job’s friends to form incorrect assumptions and conclude that Job’s sufferings were the result of wrong doing? Post Reply
Alligator View Profile History	WHY WAS RIGHTEOUS JOB FALSELY ACCUSED BY HIS “FREINDS”, why were they soooo wrong?? Posted : 2 Jun, 2020 07:26 PM The first thing that comes to my mind is that the majority of people, and I include myself in this, often thing that people deserve what they get in the way of suffering. Unless you take that thought one step further and use LOGIC, you are going to be trapped in that incorrect thinking. Job's friends just naturally jumped to the first conclusion that came into their minds. Post Reply
LittleDavid View Profile History	WHY WAS RIGHTEOUS JOB FALSELY ACCUSED BY HIS “FREINDS”, why were they soooo wrong?? Posted : 2 Jun, 2020 09:07 PM Sometimes I wonder if those justified by the righteous of Jesus suffer more. For example, God said no one was like Job, blameless and upright, yet God used the severe tests from Satan to perfect Job even more as seen at the end of the book of Job. God disciples the ones he loves. I don’t think there’s anybody who looks forward to discipline but the end of it results with increased holiness. But I think some never experience God’s discipline because they’re not his sons. Hebrews 12:4-11 New International Version God Disciplines His Children 4 In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.(A) 5 And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says, “My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart(B) when he rebukes you, 6 because the Lord disciplines the one he loves,(C) and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”[a](D) 7 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children.(E) For what children are not disciplined by their father? 8 If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline(F)—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all. 9 Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits(G) and live!(H) 10 They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness.(I) 11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace(J) for those who have been trained by it. Psalm 119:67 New Living Translation I used to wander off until you disciplined me; but now I closely follow your word. Post Reply