Job Did Not Turn From God – Was There More He Could Have Done?
The last few times I have gone through Job I have been hearing a new main message. God declares Job just, but still has this to say,
“Will you condemn Me that you may be justified?” Job 40:8
Mercy is the Meat: My Heavenly Father Will Also Do the Same
Debt may be the consequences of sin but not the condemnation of a forgiven state. We often suffer the earthly effects of our sins even if we are forgiven in an eternal sense.
Nygren’s Agape and Eros: A Transvaluation of Love
In Greco-Hellenism the gods do not love man. In Christianity, not only is God Agape but Agape is His very nature. In Greco-Roman world the gods do not take part in a fellowship with man, Christianity places fellowship in the middle of the Agape motif. Finally, Christianity is theocentric while Greek thought is egocentric.