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Job Flashcards

1
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How do you understand and read Job?

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job it must be read and understood as a whole.

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When was Job written?

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Likely, before Genesis was even written.

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Eliphaz

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roughly bases his bad advice on personal experience

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Bildad

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roughly bases his bad advice on Doctrine

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Zophar

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Roughly bases his bad advice on an appropriate response

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Elihu

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The student, comes closest to an appropriate response.

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Job’s wife

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Roughly basis her bad advice on desperation, grief, and unbelief

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What about the statements of job’s friends?

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Although technically in the bible, cannon be used for doctrinal purposes, for they are often wrong. In the end of the book, God rebukes them for not speaking the truth about Him.

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9
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Wisdom Literature of the Near East at this time: 3

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Man and His God
The Poem of the Righteous Sufferer
The Babylonian Theodicy

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10
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What the men did for Job that we can use in ministry?

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they came
they wept
they were present and saying nothing for 7 days

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11
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Elihu’s view?

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Is that suffering can be preventative as well as punitive

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12
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What changes in the monologue from God?

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from considering God’s justice to considering God’s wisdom

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God’s message is paraphrased in relation to his wisdom and justice in comparison to ours….

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Just as God’s wisdom is infinitely higher than Man’s, so God’s understanding of justice is higher than Man’s. So it should be no surprise that we might not always ‘get’ God’s justice.

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Why is Job at peace when none of his questions had been answered?

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Because Job has accepted the fact that God’s wisdom is so high above his own that the most healing thing is to know God rather than knowing the answers.

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The book of Job is testing…

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retribution theology (the righteous will prosper and the wicked will suffer)

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What is the book of Job also testing?

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The pagan cultures of his time.

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17
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There is some suffering that is beyond explanation, what should we do about it?

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we should resist efforts to try to make sense of it.

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What answer is sometimes the best (and most healing) answer to someone’s suffering and question why?

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The answer, “I don’t know” is sometimes the best (and most healing) answer to someone’s begging question, “Why?”

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We should recognize that the psalms are NOT …

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Doctrinal statements
Creeds
History

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We should recognize that the psalms ARE …

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Poetry
Prayer
and intended to be set to music and prayed in worship

21
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The book of Psalms is referred to as?

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The “Psalter”

22
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How should we understand the Psalms?

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as the product of a community of faith who composed, collected and passed on their prayers, hymns, songs and liturgy as a witness to their experience as being the people of God.

23
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What is the most numerous of the Psalms?

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The Lament Psalms

24
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The three main categories of psalms are?

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The Lament psalms
The Thanksgiving psalms
The Hymn psalms

25
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How have the Psalms become authoritative to us?

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As a guide for worship
As an example of honesty before God
As a demonstration of the importance of prayer, praise, and meditation

26
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What/Who affirms the biblical authority of the Psalms?

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Jesus himself, as well as the New Testament

27
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How was the material in the Psalms written?

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It was not written to communicate abstract theology for us. It was written to help people come to worship God from all the turmoil of life, good and bad.

28
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What is the function of a lament psalm?

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To express a faith and trust in God even when there is no immediate evidence that He is active.

29
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what is the function of the Thanksgiving psalm?

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to praise God for something He has done for the Psalmist or to offer thanksgiving in the form of worship.

30
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What is the function of a Hymn psalm?

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to praise God because He is God, and we know He is because we have cried to Him and He has acted.

31
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What are all Psalms?

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They are different aspects of praise

32
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How do the psalms think of God?

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not in intellectual terms or doctrines, but in dynamic terms that see God active and interactive in human affairs.

33
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What does the psalter teach us?

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that praise in the mode of lament is just as important as praise in the mode of doxology

34
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what was the deliberate progression within the psalms?

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lament-thanksgiving-hymn

35
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What does proverbs concern itself with?

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completely with instructing people in the path of godly wisdom

36
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Proverbs 1:7

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

37
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According to Proverbs, Wisdom then?

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involves having a measure of humility both before God as well as before others.

38
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What is the primary function of Proverbs?

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to instruct the youth

39
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An important note in applying the Psalms is to…

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understand them as wisdom and not promises, it is about probabilities rather than promises.

40
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Proverbs 27:17

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“As iron sharpens iron,so one person sharpens another.”

41
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Sons of Songs is often interpreted as?

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an allegory of the relationship between God and Israel, God and the Church, or Christ and the human soul, as husband and wife.

42
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Others reject Song of Songs as an allegory interpretation an instead belieive?

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it should be taken at face value; as a collection of passionate long songs between a husband and wife.

43
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Understanding Song of Songs as both a love story husband wife and as an allegory between a relationship between God and Israel, they both teach us about what?

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love

44
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what two extremess does the book of Song of Songs combat?

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asceticism (denial of denial

hedonism- persuit of pleasure.

45
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GK Chesterom quote:

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Meaninglessness does not come from pain, it comes from benig weary from being whearly from life.

46
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Purpose of Ecclesiastes

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  • In the end, the Preacher comes to accept that faith in God is the only way to find personal meaning.
  • He decides to accept the fact that life is brief and ultimately worthless without God.
  • The Preacher advises the reader to focus on an eternal God instead of temporary pleasure.
47
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2 main messages in Ecclesiastes

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  1. life is meaningless

2. It is of value to serve God failthfully throughout life.

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