Wednesday, June 13, 2018

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.


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