Job 10:1-22
An exact reading of II Timothy 3:16 reveals that God did not state that the whole Bible (KJB) was directly inspired by the Holy Spirit. This verse states that the Bible was "...given by inspiration of God..." God did direct some holy men to write His Word by direct inspiration from the Holy Spirit. II Peter 1:21. Nevertheless, whether directly inspired or given by inspiration, God has put His stamp of approval on every word in His Word so that He has made it all inerrant and infallible. Even the man made errors and contradictions in the Bible God put in it to teach us the inerrant and infallible truth that man is a fallible creature subject to sin and error. Many may object that this truth is obvious, but it is not. Many people exist who refuse to change their philosophy even when they discover that it is wrong. The central message of the Bible is that God's almighty Love, grace, and mercy displayed in the sinless life, death, burial, and resurrection of His Son cannot fail or ever be diminished in any way throughout eternity. I Corinthians 13:8. Any charges by the Bible critics of errors and contradictions in the Bible that prove it cannot be God's Word can thus be safely ignored as being completely irrelevant.
God demonstrated great patience and mercy with Job's wild swings of emotions because God knew that He had given Job a faith embedded in his living soul that Job could not lose. God allowed Satan to test God's love for Job and Job's faith in God in order to prove that God's love for man and man's latent faith in God embedded in his living soul that God created which stems from man's suppressed love for God, can never fail. In other words, God's Love can never fail nor can He ever allow the love He has put into His creations to ever fail. God created everything to be very good, and it cannot be good without love for God. Genesis 1:31; I Corinthians 13:8; Galatians 5:6; Luke 17:21. Satan's goal is to cause man to commit such horrible evils and to suffer so terribly from the effects of sin and evil that even the living part of man will completely surrender to evil and cause God to stop loving him forever. Such a condition would cause God's Love to fail because the image of God that He put into man would become totally evil and separated from God in spiritual death forever. This means Satan would win and God would die. Satan revealed his goal for Job and all mankind when he influenced Job's wife to tell him "...curse God and die..." God's test of Job's faith symbolized His test of His love for the whole human race. But God's love for mankind will prove infallibly true when every human not already saved by grace returns to faith in God, despite all of the horrors of sin and evil throughout history, as God prophesied in Isaiah 45:21-24 and Philippians 2:9-11, and as fulfilled in Revelation 5:13.
Toward the end of Job's answer to Bildad, Job's faith wavered again and he began again to question God. Job imagined that if he died without faith his soul would go to a place of death, darkness, and chaos. Job did not understand that God had given him this revelation that if he died in a sinful condition, then God could not accept a reconciliation with him at that time, but God would have to consign him in judgment to a real place of death and darkness called Death. Revelation 20:13. But this condemnation would not mean that God had given up on Job. God would still cause the living part of Job to return to faith in Him as his Savior as recorded in Revelation 5:13. God would also resurrect Job to eternal life on His recreated earth, along with the rest of humanity still in their graves, in a general resurrection in the end of the world. John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.
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