Bildad's Logic

Job 8:20 New International Version (NIV)

20 “Surely God does not reject one who is blameless
    or strengthen the hands of evildoers.

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I have been listening to J. Vernon McGee on my commute to work. He brought up this verse as he takes us through the book of Job. His thoughts on the content spurred my own. Bildad's logic seems irrefutable. As the source of goodness and rightness, God surely welcomes the blameless and weakens evildoers.

God's logic rose past this reasoning to a cross. There evildoers tried and convicted the perfect man. There wicked men hung THE blameless man to die. In fact, while in death throes he uttered,

Matthew 27:46 New International Version (NIV)

46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli,[a] lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).[b]

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God not only opened the door for evil, but the Lord also turned away from the perfectly innocent man. Creator God did these things because Bildad's logic left out love.

The Generations in my family

I'm amazed at the blistering pace of technological change. Back in the late 90's I tried one of the best dictation programs. After installing the data from a CD, which took almost an hour, I sat and "trained" the program to understand my voice by reading a couple of paragraphs into the tiny external computer mike several times, another 20 minutes invested. I tried the program out. The software interpreted me correctly about 80% of the time. Now my household routinely dictates questions, movie selections and more into various devices without a hitch.

Even between children, the changes are amazing. My oldest was born in 1997. Here are some "pages" from the World Wide Web in that year.

These pages use bulleted text lists and underlined word links by and large. These pages were accessed through a 33K baud modem that would send handshake tones to the local ISP. Hearing these tones through the computer speaker meant every piece was working.

My youngest was born in 2002. Here are Yahoo and Alta Vista of that year. Bulleted lists have been replaced by style pages with many more links and graphics. We accessed these pages through a 56K baud modem. My youngest doesn't remember the handshaking sounds, while my oldest does.

In 2007 we signed up for Netflix streaming. We still used a 56K modem and waited overnight for a movie to download, but NO late fees. Kate remembers waiting for movies, Emily not so much. We also used a local video rental store that had 100s of DVDs on hand and late fees. We watched one go out of business thanks to Netflix.