Subject: If we ask for healing does God answer no |
Bible Note: Hello Mitch, Allow me to address a point in your response to Tim. You state: "I can't say for sure what happened to Job, but I can tell you, that Job was in fear before the bad things began to happen in his life, and living in fear, of course, is lacking faith, Jesus addressed that on the boat with his disciples." So, you don't know FOR SURE what happened to Job. Fine. But then you go on to state something that is simply your personal opinion- a speculation- nothing more. NOWHERE does it say that Job "was in fear before the bad things began to happen in his life" OR that he "lacked faith". These are YOUR words, Mitch. The major challenge I have with this is that you are representing as FACT assertions, NOT facts given from the biblical account! You're simply making things up. Nothing written in Job tells us he was "in fear" or "lacked faith". Do you see a problem here? My plea is for you to distinguish between speculation, assertions, and facts. Mitch, though I disagree with your view, I could at least accept something stated by you if you qualified it by saying, "In my opinion" or "I think this may be what happened", etc. It is careless disregard to claim something as fact from the Bible, when it is not evidenced from the text! You continue to do this on an ongoing basis, my friend :-( It's one thing to disagree, it's an entirely different matter to make representations as fact that clearly aren't. The only thing we know about Jobs' "state" is what is recorded in Chap. 1:1 (2:3). It reads: "There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless, upright, fearing God and turning away from evil." As to Job lacking "faith", Roms 14:23 tells us that "whatever is not from faith is sin." Yet in Job 1:22 we find "Through all this Job did not sin nor did he blame God." The only "fear" I see being mentioned, is that Job feared God. A reverential fear at that! If you'd care to prove me wrong and show me FROM SCRIPTURE where Job was in fear, I'd be happy to recant. Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |