Job: Non-exhaustive on Zoom Bible Study IV/Brief Bullets on my career etcetera

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• 7 It came about after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is trustworthy, as My servant Job has. New American Standard Bible (NASB) 

• Quoting Clines. selected...page 550.

• 'Vindication before the friends (42: 7 ff.)'

• 'Yahweh emphasizes to the friends that it is Job, and not they, who have truly been my servant (repeated four times!), and that it is Job, and not they, who has spoken of what is right (7 f). What is remarkable, not to say comic, reversal of the roles we find when punishment for the friends' folly is only averted  by the prayer of the righteous still suffering (cf. 10a) Job (8 f) !'

• 'The ones who had felt so superior to Job are the ones who stand in need of forgiveness themselves; and Job is not only vindicated before them but becomes their champion.'

• 'How can the friends' unexceptionable and respectful talk about God be termed folly when Job, whose speeches have been full of bitterness and hatred against God, is said to have spoken of God what is right?'

• 'In a time of suffering, talk merely about God is folly; only a calling upon God, however bitter and violent, can be right; for it proves the way to an encounter with God.'

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• In my view, it is both logically possible and reasonably possible that what God wills and does can be hated by a human being, without God being necessarily hated.

• God should be approached in prayer, with fullness of being and in openness and honesty.

• Human beings are both finite and sinful. After the resurrection (1 Corinthians 15, Revelation 20-22) they shall remain finite.

• Philosophical and theological opinions and judgments in regards to others should be done, very prayerfully and very carefully.

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• My career work appears to have options, once I am fully trained and advancing.

• Through career and inheritances my assets and net worth have gone up significantly.

• Through diet and medical maintenance, I have increased in health and decreased in size. 

• As work has already mentioned, more than once, holiday time must be managed well in advance.

• I am pondering on future British Isles, Europe trips, as well as to the USA and perhaps even all

continents.

• Considering for the future a London-Vienna-Munich (Bayern Munich), Northern Italy trip.

• Mediterranean

• Down the east coast of USA.

• Thank you, Lord.

• Happy Canadian Thanksgiving

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BRUCE, F.F. (1986) ‘Revelation’, in F.F. Bruce (gen.ed.), The International Bible Commentary, Grand Rapids, Marshall Pickering/ Zondervan. 

CLINES, DAVID J. A. (1986) Job, The International Bible Commentary, Grand Rapids, Zondervan. 

CLINES, DAVID J. A. (1986) Proverbs, The International Bible Commentary, Grand Rapids, Zondervan.

FEE, GORDON D. AND DOUGLAS STUART (1982) How to Read the Bible for All It’s Worth, Grand Rapids, Zondervan Publishing House. 

FEE, GORDON (1987) The First Epistle to the Corinthians, Grand Rapids, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 

MOUNCE, ROBERT H. (1990) The Book of Revelation, Grand Rapids, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.

'He who dares not offend': But I attempt to love and also not offend

• I decided to keep the black and purple trim...

• I did some non-exhaustive research and the quote seems legitimate. 

• Regardless, it is a statement that has some intellectual merit.

• I might be accused at times at being honest to a fault.

• Blunt.

• I prayerfully ask the Lord to shed light on darkness, and secret darkness.

• Jesus Christ from the Gospel of John:

• John 3: 19-20 from the New American Standard Version (NASB) 19 This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 

• From Strong's: 4655 for darkness in John 3: 19. (88). σκότος 

• Bauer explains that here is this context, darkness can be understood as 'religious and moral darkness, of darkening by sin, of the state of unbelievers and of the godless.' (757-758).

• Believers too need to reject darkness.

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• Government work went well in the first official week onsite.

• Plenty to learn.

• Managers reason I can advance in the future, because of my education and work ethic.

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• A few years ago, being 35+ years of age, I messaged the website of a Mr. K. Lee Christian. LinkedIn

• As a dating consultant, he told me that for a man of my age...

• (Paraphrased) Virtually no young woman 18-24 years of age would consider a romantic relationship with me.

• That was several years ago, and I have accepted that as truth since then.

• There is a proof here in my claim and actions.

• I have never since asked a young woman 18-24 years of age out on anything that was clearly potentially romantic.

• Even, if in Christ, I assumed a romantic possibility in the future, I would strongly assume the answer would be 'no' at the stage of 18-24 years of age.

• It might be very uncomfortable for both of us, if I asked, so I avoid it.

• I am to love my neighbour (Matthew 22, Mark 12, Luke 10, Galatians 5) and those in the Church.

• I might ask a young woman to a church event, or lunch after church, as that is something we are encouraged to do, but only if she mentions it first.

• I might be curious about academic endeavors and ask to keep in touch.

• But the facts are evidence shows I have accepted what Mr. K. Lee Christian stated as fact.

• He stated that in the case of secular young women, there was at times, romantic potential at 25-30+ years of age.

• He stated that with (paraphrased) religious fundamentalists there was no chance that any young woman would ever date me at my age because they are (paraphrased) relationship wise, immature. (His paraphrased words, please do not shoot the messenger here)

• I countered that I was not a religious fundamentalist, and neither would anyone I would date be a religious fundamentalist, or Christian fundamentalist. (Implying I thought there were some mature, intellectual Christian, young women and that at least theoretically it might work with me)

• Rather, I would seek someone that is a Christian intellectual.

• He never got back to me...

BAUER, WALTER (1979) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, Translated by Eric H. Wahlstrom, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press. 

STRONG, J. (1890)(1986) Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, Burlington, Welch Publishing Company.

Job: Non-exhaustive on Zoom Bible Study III

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Job 1:8 English Standard Version (ESV)

8 And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?”

I see in verse 1:8, God is mentioning Job to Satan, it seems that God was desiring Satan to take action against Job. However, as I mentioned during the study last evening, God's motives always remain perfectly good in this process.

Indeed in 1:12, God allows Satan to destroy Job’s possessions, and later in 2:6 Satan was allowed to harm Job but not take his life. This story certainly seems to demonstrate God’s power over Satanic evil. God is sovereign over it and indirectly sanctions it. 

Calvin also discussed in The Institutes the case of the Chaldeans attacking Job, that God, Satanic beings and human beings can all participate in the same evil acts: 

How can we attribute the same work to God, to Satan, and to man, without either excusing Satan by the interference of God, or making God the author of the crime? This is easily done, if we look first to the end, and then to the mode of acting. The Lord designs to exercise the patience of his servant by adversity; Satan’s plan is to drive him to despair; while the Chaldeans are bent on making unlawful gain by plunder. Such diversity of purpose makes a wide distinction in the act. . . . We thus see that there is no inconsistency in attributing the same act to God, to Satan, and to man, while, from the difference in the end and mode of action, the spotless righteousness of God shines forth at the same time that the iniquity of Satan and of man is manifested in all its deformity. Calvin, (1539)(1998) Book II, Chapter 4, Section 2. 

CALVIN, JOHN (1539)(1998) The Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book II, Translated by Henry Beveridge, Grand Rapids, The Christian Classic Ethereal Library, Wheaton College. http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes.html

CALVIN, JOHN (1539)(1998) The Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book IV, Translated by Henry Beveridge, Grand Rapids, The Christian Classic Ethereal Library, Wheaton College. http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes.html 

CALVIN, JOHN (1540)(1973) Romans and Thessalonians, Translated by Ross Mackenzie, Grand Rapids, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 

CALVIN, JOHN (1543)(1996) The Bondage and Liberation of the Will, Translated by G.I. Davies, Grand Rapids, Baker Book House. 

CALVIN, JOHN (1550)(1978) Concerning Scandals, Translated by John W. Fraser, Grand Rapids, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 

CALVIN, JOHN (1552)(1995) Acts, Translated by Watermark, Nottingham, Crossway Books. 

CALVIN, JOHN (1553)(1952) Job, Translated by Leroy Nixon, Grand Rapids, Baker Book House. 

CALVIN, JOHN (1554)(1965) Genesis, Translated by John King, Edinburgh, The Banner of Truth Trust.

CLINES, DAVID J. A. (1986) Job, The International Bible Commentary, Grand Rapids, Zondervan. 

CLINES, DAVID J. A. (1986) Proverbs, The International Bible Commentary, Grand Rapids, Zondervan.

ERICKSON, MILLARD (1994) Christian Theology, Grand Rapids, Baker Book House. 

ERICKSON, MILLARD (2003) What Does God Know and When Does He Know It?, Grand Rapids, Zondervan. 

FEINBERG, JOHN.S. (1986) Predestination and Free Will, in David Basinger and Randall Basinger (eds.), Downers Grove, Illinois, InterVarsity Press. 

FEINBERG, JOHN.S. (1994) The Many Faces of Evil, Grand Rapids, Zondervan Publishing House. 

FEINBERG, JOHN.S. (2001) No One Like Him, John S. Feinberg (gen.ed.), Wheaton, Illinois, Crossway Books. 

PAILIN, DAVID A. (1999) ‘Deism’, in Alan Richardson and John Bowden (eds.), A New Dictionary of Christian Theology, Kent, SCM Press Ltd. 

PAILIN, DAVID A. (1999) ‘Enlightenment’, in Alan Richardson and John Bowden (eds.), A New Dictionary of Christian Theology, Kent, SCM Press Ltd. 

PAILIN, DAVID A. (1999) ‘Process Theology’, in Alan Richardson and John Bowden (eds.), A New Dictionary of Christian Theology, Kent, SCM Press Ltd. 

This eliminates the need for the ‘Who created God?’, question: God is/Necessary v Contingent

This eliminates the need for the ‘Who created God?’, question: God is/Necessary v Contingent

An article referencing edited website articles for an entry on academia.edu on September 25, 2022

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Referenced from archives 

Thursday, October 16, 2014 Necessary & Contingent (Brief From PhD) 

Necessary & Contingent (Brief From PhD)

An infinite eternal God can be understood as the first cause, therefore not requiring a cause.

Karl Barth explains within The Doctrine of Creation that the essence of God himself is eternal, he is before time, above time and after time. Barth (1932-1968: 67).

Note: This eliminates the need for the ‘Who created God?’, question. God is.

God’s essence is eternal and necessary (logically must exist), and the finite universe is temporal and contingent (not necessary). Shedd (1874-1890)(1980: 191 Volume 1). God as a necessary being is therefore the cause of contingent creation.

Frame reasons God is the creator and the Lord of the beginning of history. This occurs within his eternal plans. Frame (2002: 389).

Within this view God is the implied first cause that exists necessarily prior to everything else. Pojman (1996: 596).

Saturday, November 07, 2020 The necessary is good II 

The necessary is good

Necessary v. Contingent 

1. The necessary must exist.

2. God is necessary.

3. God's plans are necessary. 

4. The contingent exist.

5. The necessary supersedes the contingent.

6. Human beings are contingent.

7. Human being's plans are contingent.

8. Human being's needs are contingent.

Therefore, the suffering of the contingent is permissible.

I am not stating that God by nature had to create anything, or anything finite. God does have significant free will within divine nature. His plans reflect nature. I am stating that God's plans must occur and therefore are necessary.

It could be stated that it is a weaker sense of necessity in point 3 than points 1 and 2.  

1. The necessary must exist.

2. God is necessary

I would view 1,2 as within absolute necessity.

Open Edition Journals: Philosophia Scientia What is Absolute Necessity? Bob Hale 16/2/2012 

Cited 

Absolute necessity might be defined as truth at absolutely all possible worlds without restriction. But we should be able to explain it without invoking possible worlds.

By my definition 1,2 are necessary in all possible worlds. 

3. God's plans are necessary. 

This could be explained as relative necessity.

Relative Necessity Reformulated Bob Hale & Jessica Leech Journal of Philosophical Logic volume 46, pages1–26(2017)

Cited 

The standard account defines each kind of relative necessity by means of a necessitated or strict conditional, whose antecedent is a propositional constant for the body of assumptions relative to which the consequent is asserted to be necessary.

The relative necessity of (3) has as antecedent the absolute necessity of (1,2).

Further, God, within his infinite, eternal nature, would only be morally obligated to keep his revealed word, as in promises, in regard to contingent, human beings. These are documented in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament within a theistic, Christian worldview.

1. The necessary must exist. 

2. God is necessary. 

The necessary is good.

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1. The necessary must exist. 

2. God is necessary. 

3. The necessary is good.

Therefore, God is good.

Note, I am not using syllogism as arguments.

Thursday, July 13, 2017: Quaternio terminorum: The fallacy of four

Cited

Bibliographical reference 

Bob Hale, “What is Absolute Necessity?”, Philosophia Scientiæ, 16-2 | 2012, 117-148. 

Electronic reference

Bob Hale, “What is Absolute Necessity?”, Philosophia Scientiæ [Online], 16-2 | 2012, Online since 01 October 2015, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/743; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/philosophiascientiae.743 

Thursday, November 07, 2019 Necessary v Sufficient 

Necessary v Sufficient 

Necessary versus Sufficient conditions Philosopher Blackburn explains... 'If p is a necessary condition of q, then q cannot be true unless p is true. If p is a sufficient condition of q, then given that p is true, q is so as well.' (73).

Blackburn provides the example: Steering well is a necessary condition of driving well... (73). But it is not sufficient, as one can steer well, but be an overall bad driver. (73). Perhaps, one steers very well, but is overly occupied by texting while driving. (My add, and not my practice) This concept from Blackburn with the use of symbolic logic, provides a level of complexity, yet consistent and logical at the same time. But providing a true example provides another level of difficulty. 

A solid/true example Infinite attributes (a) are a necessary condition of infinite nature (b). Infinite attributes (a) are a necessary condition of infinite nature (b), then infinite nature (b) cannot be true unless infinite attributes (a) are true. If infinite attributes (a) are a sufficient condition of infinite nature (b), then given that infinite attributes (a) are true, then infinite nature (b) is so as well. 

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