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Commenting on Job

09/06/2005 12:53 PM Filed in: Theology
Hello all. I have decided to get this little web site up and running again (at least in some capacity), and my hope is that it will be a springboard for discussion.

As many of you know, I have been studying the book of Job for about a year now as I feel that it has a great deal to say about God and suffering, the Christian and prayer, and Satan and his ongoing struggle against the kingdom of light. I am so thankful for this book and feel that with each reading I learn so much more about God and about myself.

For the next couple of months, I will be writing on the book of Job. The plan is to comment on one chapter per day with thoughts on the passage, application, and exegesis (sometimes I may do all three, sometimes only one or two). Occasionally, especially in the beginning, a chapter may take several days to finish. I welcome comments and thoughts and hope that this study will lead to some great discussions.

So here we go. It’s important to note that what follows is not meant to be an in-depth analysis or commentary on Job. Many, many commentaries, books, papers, and journals have focused thousands and thousands of pages on attempting to exegete the text of this beautiful book. Theologians have looked carefully at the Hebrew, compared it to other texts from the Bible and the same time period, and have matched their work against hundreds of other theologians. What follows is not nearly as in-depth.

However, having read Job and many commentaries on the book, I hope to at least unpack some of the issues contained within that I feel are essential to the point of the original author, and are vital truths for modern Christians to understand and to implement into their world view.

I welcome you to join in the discussion…

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