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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
According to the context God has answered Job's question by asking Do you have an arm like God, do you have a voice like God?
Job's question directed to God, though lengthy and somewhat difficult to piece together is in three parts:
1. What was the purpose of my life?
2. Who and where is the one who can judge the wicked? Also, to be fair, this judge should have eyes of flesh.
3. What was my sin that you have caused me this sin?
I read your response and it is not an answer to these questions. How is your reading of what the Lord said and answer to Job's question?
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You didn't ask these questions. But I will humor you since Job did.
God answered those questions by saying that Job asked the questions from a position of ignorance. And he asked it as if he should be able to demand a satisfactory answer within his understanding. But God asserts that he (Job) does not have the standing to understand. He does not have the counsel to ordain the very fabric of the universe. He does not have the power to make it so. Yet he challenges the only one who does as if a created being has the standing to challenge the creator over how things were made.
This book is the early discussion about the coexistence of God and evil. It is not a prophetic book about Jesus or the church. Since it is written within the framework of the righteousness of the God who created it all and who keeps it all going, you can find parallels of truth in it. If God really made it all, then there will be the signs of that truth in everything. But that does not make everything a comment on everything else.
The answer to the three questions is/was: I am God. I am the one who created you. It is not about you.
The answer was not: You should have this arm of power. Jesus will come and be both God and man. And if you happened to be alive in the age after Jesus, you could be part of the "corporate man" that will have such an arm of power.