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Job and the Free Will Myth!

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Deborah-Leigh:
I have never heard any Preacher explain WHY God rebuked the statements made to Job by his "friends".
Perhaps because to explain it you have to know Free will is a Myth! ;D

In fact I have never heard any Preacher explain WHY Jobs statements were correct in Gods eyes! Same reason. To do so ushers in the contrast between the friends who were holier than thou and Job who was right about God! You can not explain that one unless you know that free will is a myth and idol of the wicked heart!

If you read what Jobs friends said to Job there is so much evidence that they believe in free will. The book of Job demolishes the error contained in the deception and false teachings that arise from resistance to God as Sovereign and man as clay in His hands. It shakes loose the error in believing in free will!

Job knew this fact but he could not persuade his friends of this truth and their error. God did that part!... But Job did try to explain to them....Job 19 : 6 KNOW THAT God has overthrown and put me into the wrong and has closed His net about me. HE HAS walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and HE HAS set darkness upon my paths. 9 HE HAS stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head. 10. HE HAS broken me down on every side, and I am gone; my hope has HE pulled up like a tree. 11. HE HAS also kindled HIS wrath against me, and HE counts me as one of His adversaries. (I think that is where Job slipped up....Job was not big enough for God to count him as an adversary. Will the potter consider that the clay is an adversary? ;D....God corrected this ignorance in His confrontation with Job that Darren submitted for consideration. Job knew God was Sovereign and God tweaked Job in the end to realise that God is not only Sovereign Responsible, Love and Wisdom but that he, Job is accountable! We are all accountable and we all will answer to God!)

So Job already knew that mortal man can not be right in front of God. Why did he think he was big enough to be an adversary? For me this was part of the darkened counsel of words without knowledge that God corrected Job for alledging. Yet there was something else about Job that God corrected.

Job knew very well what God's methods are. He asked...Job 21 : 29 Have you not asked those who travel this way, and DO YOU NOT ACCEPT their testimony and EVIDENCES - 30 That the evil man is now spared in the day of calamity and destruction and they are led forth and away on the day of God's wrath.
Here we see that Job KNEW Gods methods but he did not understand God's methods and he was dismayed by God's ways. He lamented and cried and whaled and waxed and waned into sorrow of his own knowledge without understanding! God set him straight! 8)

Peace be to you

Arcturus :)

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