Job and You - Part 2 - D Paul Graunke - November 1976

D Paul Graunke

Why Do Men Suffer? Review: Satan accused Job of obeying God because it paid him to do so. Remove the profit motive, Satan argued, and Job's piety would turn to blasphemy. God allowed Satan to test his theory and Job by taking away his wealth, family and health - everything but his life. Along came Job's three friends to console him. But their consolation soon turned into condemnation as they tried to get Job to confess what surely had to be heinous sins to warrant such severe suffering. Job's friends erred because they didn't have all the facts, and what facts they did have were grossly misinterpreted because of mistaken theological ideas about God and suffering. Consequently, God rebuked them for misrepresenting Him, not to mention unjustly maligning Job. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library