Job: Non-exhaustive on Zoom Bible Study VI: God wills all things

Job: Non-exhaustive on Zoom Bible Study VI

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Preface

Work is pleased with my task completion, but as it is mainly training on the computer in the back office, my eyes are tired.

I did attend the online, Zoom, Job class week.

I am in full agreement with the professor, that God wills all things. My example, referenced text below.

Job 38: 1-40: 2

Clines explains that Yahweh (God, my add), displays his divine wisdom and omnipotence (all powerful, my add). (545). This is to have Job 'leave off his attempt to understand what is happening to him.' (345). Clines opines that God wants Job to reconsider what he already knows about the world God has made. (345).

New American Standard Bible: NASB

Job 40: 2

40 Then the Lord said to Job, 2 “Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? 

Let him who rebukes God [l]give an answer.” 

[l] Job 40:2 Lit answer it

Philosophical theology & Philosophy of Religion

Human beings are in this present realm, finite and sinful.

God is infinite, eternal and omnipotent. God’s biblical, sovereign, providential control over his creation from Genesis to Revelation, and particularly within the book  of Job, demonstrates that God does will all things, whether directly willing or allowing, It could also be stated that God wills all things within divine perfect will or permissible will. This can also be reasoned in a parallel way within premises and conclusions via theistic, philosophy of religion. Reasoning God as the first and primary cause of all things, while allowing for secondary causes within compatibilism (God's sovereignty is compatible with the limited free will, via nature, of secondary, contingent, rational beings). God as first and primary cause, is necessary/of necessity.

Blackburn writes that a proposition is necessary, if it could not have been false.(257). Admittedly, someone can and will always disagree with any provided proposition. But, I agree with the definition here from secular, British, philosopher Blackburn. Further he writes that the necessary, what is of necessity, is true is all possible worlds. (257).

It could be reasoned contingent beings do not have to exist. Contingent beings 'could have failed to exist'. They 'must be caused to exist by some another being'. Quinn (1996: 609). If God’s plans for humanity are contingent, because he could have done otherwise, the fact these contingent plans come from a necessary being would still have them supersede the plans and needs of the contingent.

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