Job 1:6-22
God had a meeting with His sons, and He allowed Satan, as His former son Lucifer, to attend. God asked Satan what he had been doing. Satan bragged that being the god of the earth, he had the freedom to walk through the earth doing whatever he pleased. God countered Satan's claims by reminding him that God had a perfect servant named Job who lived as moral a life as possible, and who also offered burnt offering sacrifices for the forgiveness of his sins. Satan countered God's defense of Job by claiming that Job only served God because God had prospered and protected him. Satan argued that if God allowed him to remove Job's protection and prosperity and cause Job to suffer, then Job would curse God to His face, meaning Job would turn to total rebellion against God just as Lucifer had done. By allowing Satan to make this claim in God's Bible (KJB), God has revealed to the whole human race Satan's motive in his desire to destroy all of humanity.
Every human has two natures. God has created every human in His image which causes every person to desire to do some good. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31. Man also has a sin nature because of the fall. This sin nature overpowers man and causes him inevitably to sin. Job possessed a finite perfection because, in accordance with God's image imprinted within him, he led as moral and as good a life as a sinful man can. Also, for his sin nature which caused him to sin, he offered burnt offering sacrifices to obtain God's forgiveness. Because of Job's faith and obedience, God judged him to be a finite perfect man. Even the image of God within Job caused him to do good by obeying God in offering burnt offering sacrifices.
Within the whole human race, some have yielded themselves to their dark and evil natures and have committed terrible crimes against God and others, but even the worst of them has done some good which stems from the image of God within them. This image of God within them cannot be erased. When Jesus told the wicked Pharisees in Luke 17:21 that "the kingdom of God is within you," He referred to the image of God that He had created in them. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29.
Satan knows all this, and so his challenge to God about Job reveals his attitude not only toward mankind but also toward God Himself. Satan believes that if he can just burden mankind with enough darkness, suffering, and evil; then he can cause even the goodness and life that God has given man to rebel against God and curse Him. Satan desires to erase the goodness and life that God has put into every man. Should Satan succeed, he would nullify a part of God's creation, prove that God's Love cannot protect His image in man, and begin the downfall of God Himself. In his rebellion against God. Lucifer sought to murder God and replace Him as the god of His universe. Isaiah 14:12-15.
God created His image in man to be good. Genesis 1:31. Because it is good, it can only do good, Every human who has ever lived has done some good which stems from God's image within them. Even the most coldblooded and cruel atheist has done some good. Hitler was good to his mistress and his dog even though he murdered millions of people. Stalin was good to one of his daughters even though he also murdered millions of people. Even Judas Iscariot suffered remorse for his betrayal of Jesus although he refused to repent to God for it. Jesus could not have called Judas "friend" in Matthew 26:50 if He did not see the image of God within him that He still loved. God hates evil. He loves only the good. God has determined that He will preserve forever the life and goodness that He has put into every person because that which God loves can never be destroyed. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29; Romans 11:36; I Corinthians 13:8.
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