tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244292116722597763.post7188264083834100410..comments2009-02-05T08:13:05.991-07:00Sherry Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17428918256547725187noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244292116722597763.post-82737984548178151402008-10-09T04:15:00.000-06:002008-10-09T04:15:00.000-06:00You might be interested in this online commentary "Putting God on Trial: The Biblical Book of Job" (http://www.bookofjob.org) as supplementary or background material for your study of the Book of Job. It is not a sin to question God, to demand answers from God. There is a time and a place for such things. It is written by a Canadian criminal defense lawyer, now a Crown prosecutor, and it explores the legal and moral dynamics of the Book of Job with particular emphasis on the distinction between causal responsibility and moral blameworthiness embedded in Job’s Oath of Innocence. It is highly praised by Job scholars (Clines, Janzen, Habel) and the Review of Biblical Literature, all of whose reviews are on the website. The author is an evangelical Christian, denominationally Anglican. He is also the Canadian Director for the Mortimer J. Adler Centre for the Study of the Great Ideas, a Chicago-based think tank.<BR/><BR/>Robert SutherlandAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244292116722597763.post-55504592440154062972008-10-06T14:15:00.000-06:002008-10-06T14:15:00.000-06:00I agree that trials polish us. I am reading the Lord of the Rings (admittedly) for the first time and just read the Council of Elrond where those concerned with the greater good gathered to decide what was to be done with the Ring of Power. They ruled out using it to overpower evil (because it would soon rule the one who weilds it) and they ruled out tossing it into the sea (because Middle Earth would have to destroy it sooner or later anyway). They decided that the best path would lead them into the fire of Mt. Doom where it would be destroyed forever. <BR/>Gandalf says, "Now at this last we must take a hard roa, a road unforseen. There lies our hope, if hope it ve. To walk into peril--to Mordor. We must send the Ring to the Fire."<BR/>I don't like pain, but I welcome it for the greater good. I love my fellow man and I will be Christ in the world with the strength of the Spirit. <BR/>Let us not fear the fire. It, as you say, will polish us.akosteckahttp://thethinklings.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com