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Originally Posted by awareness
But I found no evidence to support ZNP's claim that the book of Job teaches that the purpose of man is to express God, nor do I find any evidence that the book of Job is about God building a man.
If it were true, then the New Testament writers would have picked up on it and ran with it. They didn't.
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12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
12:3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
12:4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
12:5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Verse 5 and 6 parallel Job 5:17 and 23:10
According to Hebrews we should look to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who endured the cross, despised the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of Glory when we are going through experiences similar to those described in Job. Clearly the writer of Hebrews sees Jesus in the book of Job. He sees the story of Jesus being crucified, resurrected and ascended as an example for us also to endure the same and compares that story to the story of Job.
And the path of the cross that Jesus took in Heb 12:2 and that we should follow in verses 12:3-6 leads to Mount Zion:
12:18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,More…
12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,