The Book of Job

[JayHawes]

That's not a very good lesson.

That's the best lesson we can learn.

Patience is a key in life.

Ro 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

Ro 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Ro 5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

Ro 5:4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

 

[JayHawes]

Isn't that precisely depriving a person's free will? Where does free will or slavery come in?

God still sounds like a tyrant.

God only appears as a tyrant when we by choice and feww will, rebel against him, and in our rebellion, by our free will we choose to sin. And in our sin, we make God sick of us. We have no diea how much God hates sin. Therefore through our own actions we provoke God to righteouss judgement.

Therefore it is man's fault, not God's, if God must judge us of our sins.

God is not a tyrant but a judge.

We do have free will. We can freely choose to serve God, or we can choose to reject him, and serve other things, or even self. Whatever choice we make we must face the results.

 

[JayHawes]

It matters very much to me.

Is he a loving father? Or is he megalomaniac tyrant?

If he is the latter, then he doesn't want people to have free will.

What is it for an adulterer to judge another man of his adulterer? Or a theif to judge another man of his theft? Or what is it for a molestor to condemn another molestor of his wrong?

We are all sinners, and have no place to judge each other, unless it is righteouss judgement (that means get yourself right before you try to get someone eles right). We have no place to judge God. We can't judge him, he is Holy and beyond fault.

A loving father doesn't want his child doing the very worst in the world. A Tyrant woudln't care. A Father who does care punishes his child. God is a loving father.