Documentary

Understanding the Old Testament

Robert D. Miller II · 2019

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Themebodily afflictionjob's wiferefusalfemale voicecurse god and dieaugustine's readingencounter with godjob

Context2019lived_experience

What this book knows

The Old Testament's hardest questions about suffering, divine justice, and sincere faith are lived out in narrative, law, and prophecy.

Sex: Absent
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Primary

faith-and-doubtobedience-and-authoritymortality

faith-and-doubt

The Satan's argument is that sincere love for God is a lie — religion is camouflage for economic, social, and psychological motivations.
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'I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen you' — personal encounter as the answer to suffering.
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obedience-and-authority

Job's wife says, 'Curse God and die.' Job refuses, saying he will not reject God even under catastrophic suffering.
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Eliphaz warns: if Job suffers innocently, people will think there is no reward for goodness and abandon worship altogether.
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Illuminates

4 published passages · documentary · lived experience

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