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Test 1 Flashcards

1
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how To understand the full impact of the book of Job

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It must be read and understood as a whole.

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when was Job written

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It was likely written even before Genesis was written.

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these 5 people give advice to Job

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  • Eliphaz
  • Bildad
  • Zophar
  • Elihu (the student)
  • Job’s wife
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Eliphaz advice

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(roughly) bases his (bad) advice on personal experience.

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Bildad advice

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(roughly) bases his (bad) advice on tradition

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Zophar advice

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(roughly) bases his (bad) advice on doctrine

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Elihu (the student) advice

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comes closest to an appropriate response

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Job’s wife advice

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bases her advice on desperation, grief, and unbelief

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how useful is Job’s friends advice

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The statements of Job’s friends, while technically “in the Bible”, cannot 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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10
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Other Wisdom Literature of the Near East at this Time

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  • “Man and His God”
  • “I Will Praise the Lord of Wisdom”
    (or “The Poem of the Righteous Sufferer”)
  • “The Babylonian Theodicy”
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What Job’s friends did that we can use in ministry;

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  • They came
  • They wept (sympathized) with him.
  • They were present and saying nothing for 7 days
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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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How does the monologue from God change

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

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God’s message to Job

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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 have 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 all the answers.

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16
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What is Job testing (2)

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  • retribution theology itself (The righteous will prosper and the wicked will suffer).
  • pagan cultures of his time.
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17
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lesson on suffering

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there is some suffering that is beyond explanation and we should resist efforts to try to make sense of it.

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18
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answer to someone’s begging question, “Why?”

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The answer, “I don’t know.” is sometimes the best (and most healing)

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Psalms are not

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  • Doctrinal statements
  • Creeds
  • History
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Psalms are

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-Poetry
-Prayer
… intended to be set to music and prayed in worship.

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21
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Book of Psalms is often called

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the “Psalter”

22
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Better to understand Psalms as

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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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Types of Psalms

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  • Lament Psalms - most numerous
  • Thanksgiving Psalms
  • Hymns
24
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As such, the Psalms have become authoritative for 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.
25
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Affirm biblical authority of Psalms

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Jesus Himself, as well as the testimony of the New Testament

26
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Reason Psalms was written

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The material in the Psalms 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.

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The function of a lament Psalm

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is to expresses a faith and trust in God even when there is no immediate evidence that He is active

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The function of a Thanksgiving Psalm

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

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The function of a Hymn

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

30
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All Psalms are…

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Different Aspects of Praise

31
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Psalms think of God in what terms?

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

32
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What does the Psalter teach about praise

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

33
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Psalm order

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This order suggests that the cycle lament-thanksgiving-hymn was a deliberate progression.

34
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Proverbs concerns itself

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completely with instructing people in the path of godly wisdom.

35
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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.

36
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Wisdom according to Proverbs,

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

37
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The primary stated function of the book of Proverbs

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is to instruct youth

38
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An important note in applying Proverbs

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  • is to understand them as wisdom not promises.

- Proverbs is about probabilities rather than promises.

39
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First 9 chapters of Proverbs

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  • 52% of the first 9 chapters speak of the value of wisdom.

- 24% of the first 9 chapters warn young men against adultery.

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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G. K. Chesterton

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“Meaninglessness does not come from being weary from pain, it comes from being weary from pleasure.”

42
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Purpose of Ecclesiasties

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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.
43
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First message of Ecclesiasties

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The first is stated in the prologue: “Everything is meaningless”

44
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Two phrases, (translated “vanity” in the KJV and “meaningless” in the NIV),

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are used to emphasize the temporary limited nature of worldly things.

45
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The phrase “under the sun”

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occurs 28 times, and refers to the mortal world. When the Preacher refers to “all things under the sun,” he is talking about earthly, temporary, human things.

46
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There are two main messages

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1) “Everything is meaningless” (1:2)

2) It is of value to serve God faithfully throughout life.

47
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Song of Songs 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.

48
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some reject any allegorical interpretation of this book claiming

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that a better interpretation is to take it at face value; as a collection of passionate love songs between a husband and wife

49
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The Song of Songs is probably best seen as

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  • Both allegory and collection of passionate love songs between a husband and wife.
  • Understanding it either way can teach us about love.
50
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Song of Songs combats two extremes

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asceticism (the denial of all pleasure) and hedonism (the pursuit of only pleasure).

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