How could the same God who gave his only begotten Son that we may have life & the same God who came so that we may have life be the same God that kill? That would be a complete contradiction of who God is and I don't think you will find any scripture to support God killing folk. You hear people say "God giveth & God taketh away" but that is the farthest thing from the truth than most sayings. The thief a.k.a satan is the one that kills, steals & destroys - not God.
The question of free will also confounds me; God has a will, a will which is above all others. Humans are God's only creation given free will. Angels, such as satan is/was, don't have free will. I wonder how any could then rebel against God and God's omnipotent will in the first place to become devils or demons. Then, how could they do anything to people. Like if Job has a will and the devil doesn't, how can the devil do something against Job's will. Then if God's will is even greater than human will, and the non-existent will of angels, how can the devil harm humans unless God wants them harmed. In Job it was like the devil couldn't do anything till God said it could, and God kept giving the go ahead to destroy Job and make him feel forsaken. I guess I find the story so disturbing because it's like they picked someone who wasn't so bad at all, and started gambling with his soul.
God didn't make Job's house collapse, Satan did. Satan did all of the things that happened to Job, not God. In fact, my belief is that if Job hadn't have feared all of the things that happened to him - Satan wouldn't have been able to steal, kill & destroy in Jobs life because perfect love cast out fear (1 John 4:18). I also think the main thing the book of Job is trying to teach us believers is that to be in faith, we cannot have fear at the same time. It was Job's greatest fears that came to life which brings into question just how strong his faith was. God thought Job had more faith than he really had & Satan was able to prove just how weak Job's faith was.
But Job wouldn't curse God, so they just went on trashin his life and ruining his health and whatnot. How could he have weak faith if he wouldn't "curse God and die" like his wife told him to?
Also why does God take satan up on bets and stuff? Humans are not really supposed to be susceptible to the devil, but in Job, even God ponders over its manipulations.
God said He does not change, so what is the answer to the question? The God of wrath still exists, whether you believe it or not.
Fascinating. I'd never thought of it that way, though I'd always wondered why old testament God and the new testament God of Whom Jesus spoke seemed almost like opposites.
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