You might have thought we’d be done with the Book of Job at this point, but one thing more needs to be said. Job’s 3 friends had the spirit of the Laodiceans. Let’s review what the spirit, the attitude, of the Laodiceans means, as I wrote in the Associated Content…
Job appears to have never been told about the exchange between God and Satan in the first 2 chapters of the book. Indeed, often our situation can be similar. We may cry out to God, “Why?”, yet the answer doesn’t seem to come to us. We look for easy answers,…
John H Ogwyn of LCG wrote “Study Topic: Seven lessons from the book of Job”. While not as comprehensive as some of the other articles I have posted about this week, it still has some excellent points. The ending of Job is sort of a mystery in many respects. A…
Must be a “Book of Job Week”. I guess I cannot help it. It is one of the most enigmatic books of the Bible. It is a reminder that sometimes “good people” suffer for reasons we don’t always understand. It is also a reminder that God is in control. However,…
Yesterday, I cleaned up an old article on the Book of Job that I thought I had republished already from the old blog site. In it, I make the case that Job was not “full of pride” or “self-righteous” and so he was being punished for those sins. Unfortunately, there…
[This is a reprint from the old blog site.] There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. ~Job 1:1 Sometimes events happen in such a way that I just feel…
I want to compare Elijah, John the Baptist and Herbert W Armstrong. Let’s see how this thing copies and pastes into Blogger. Here is what I have so far: Elijah John the Baptist HWA Miracles Shut up rain for 3-1/2 yrs, was fed by ravens, was fed by a…
Most of you probably did not know or notice that last Friday would have been the 500th birthday of John Calvin, had he still been alive. He is known for many things, but perhaps he known best as one of the great shapers of Reformed thought in Europe. Much of…
How do YOU deal with so-called “Bible contradictions”? You know, I thought about starting a series of articles dealing with these alleged contradictions, but frankly the human imagination is practically unlimited with the scope of ingenuity in being disingenuous. What is more important is you use the opportunity when a…
The dishonest handling of the Biblical text never ceases to amaze me. This literal reading implies that God specially created Adam and Eve from dust, and that all humans are descended from these original parents. They were created to have a perfect relationship with God, but their disobedience resulted in…