{"id":7430,"date":"2016-03-04T00:05:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T08:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=7430"},"modified":"2016-03-03T18:55:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T02:55:06","slug":"the-gates-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2016\/03\/04\/the-gates-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gates of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cHave you entered into the springs of the sea
\nOr walked in the recesses of the deep?
\nHave the gates of death been revealed to you,
\nOr have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
\nHave you understood the expanse of the earth?
\nTell Me, if you know all this.
\n Where is the way to the dwelling of light?
\nAnd darkness, where is its place,
\nThat you may take it to its territory
\nAnd that you may discern the paths to its home?
\nYou know, for you were born then,
\nAnd the number of your days is great!\u201d (Job 38:16-21)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Job had lost his family and his health and he was beginning to lose his belief in God\u2019s love. God\u2019s response to Job\u2019s flagging faith was sarcasm. God asked him a series of questions that he knew Job would not be able to answer. Why did God respond to Job\u2019s suffering by heaping sarcasm and insults upon him? <\/p>\n

God wondered why Job\u2019s inability to fathom an explanation for his suffering was any different from Job\u2019s inability to explain where light lived or where the gates of death might be. Job had concluded that there was no good reason for his pain so God must hate him or be bad or unreasonable. Job\u2019s conclusion made as much sense as it would for him to conclude God was bad or unreasonable or hated him because Job couldn\u2019t explain where light came from. Job learned that God wouldn\u2019t necessarily answer all the questions he wondered about. In fact, the answers he got might not even be to the questions he was asking. He learned that too often he didn\u2019t even know what the right questions might be.<\/p>\n

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