tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416089578031996468.post7191987448119146420..comments2023-11-09T07:13:39.461+10:30Comments on Musings: Respectable Sins - Discontentment (Ch 9)Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235980969755979085noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416089578031996468.post-26709607178981649952015-02-17T17:12:53.059+10:302015-02-17T17:12:53.059+10:30The two scriptures used by the author in this chap...The two scriptures used by the author in this chapter to support his "solution" or remedy for discontent are <br /><br />1. Job 1:21 "The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away...". Job made this statement when he did not know who was responsible for <br />the suffering being inflicted on Him. Satan was heaping loss and sickness on him and he makes this statement in ignorance. <br /><br />If we approach this the way we watch a play, we readers are informed about what is going on behind the scenes. We have this insight<br />as readers of the book of Job, but the character Job is not aware that it is not God but Satan who is doing this to him.<br /><br />Christians have quoted this verse as evidence that it is God who gives and takes away. Christians have made a sort of doctrinal <br />statement out of this. it has made them see everything good and bad in life as God's doing and yet Jesus (the most correct picture<br />we have of the Father) does not do any of this like cause infertility, cause disabilities, cause accidents to happen to people.<br /><br />I don't have the time right now to write on the second scripture Psalm 139:16 but could do so at a later date. (Ronald Selwyn)<br />r_selwyn@hotmail.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com