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Algebra’s formulas don’t carry over to wisdom and faith - when we try, a host of problems arise.
The days of Algebra class may be far behind us — but we still have the basics.
a+ b = b + a — 3 + 6 is 9 — reverse them 6 + 3 is 9
a + b = b + a — thereore 3 + 6 is 9 and 6 + 3 is 9
a*b = b*a 6x3 is 18 and so is 3*6
a*b = b*a 6x3 is 18 and so is 3*6
Limited to addition and multiplication, these are commutative properties.
Switching places, the numbers are said to commute but the outcome doesn’t change.
It only works with addition and multiplication - not subtraction, not division or even wisdom matters.
Except when a and b are the same - a-b does not equal b-a.
6-3 is 3 and 3-6 is -3 — The same for division.
6/3 is 2 but 3/6 is 1/2.
It only works with addition and multiplication - not subtraction or division or even wisdom matters.
6/3 is 2 but 3/6 is 1/2.
These are given truths in our standard numbering system.
These are given truths in our base standard numbering system.
Terrible conclusions result when applying commutative properties to wisdom.
That’s especially true with the tough questions - Like the wisdom behind suffering.
This past week - Why did God let one more school shooting happen?
Sometimes the why questions are rooted in anger — Other times we really want to know — But a host of problems arise when human wisdom attempts to fill in for the divine mystery of God.
Job’s friends speak to why Job is suffering when they should have remained silent.
The prime example is Job’s friends who speak to why Job is suffering when they should have remained silent.
Switching the equation for human suffering around, they concluded Job had only himself to blame.
Yet reads, “Job was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.”
In other words Job was wise on all accounts.
Without his knowledge, he was the center of debate between God and Satan.
Satan believed that Job only feared God because of Job’s fine house, flocks, fields and family.
So God permits Satan to intervene in his life and Job loses everything.
Suffering terribly, Job laments his situation, but he does not stop fearing God.
Much of the book is a dialogue with his “so called” friends.
They began with godly wisdom.
If you sin, there will be suffering.
We don’t know their knowledge of Genesis or God’s Covenants - The Bible makes clear there are consequences and punishments for sin.
Even for today’s believers, the punishment was covered by Christ, but the consequences of sin remain.
Without mercy, a student will face devastating consequences for allegedly posting threats against his school to stay home & play video games.
They started with a saying we know to be true...— If you disobey God, you could suffer for it.
But Job’s friends took the wisdom behind suffering as commutative with terrible results.
Their reasoning led to this conclusion - If you suffer - you must have sinned and angered God.
a+b = b+a — If you sin there will be suffering.
Therefore if you suffer you must have disobeyed God.
In theology, this is called Retribution Theory.
This is the wisdom they espoused.
To Job’s friend’s the answer was yes.
In theological terms this is called Retribution Theory — others have a simpler name for it like Karma.
Though Job admits his sinfulness as all of us are - he professes his innocence.
So given it’s universal truth in their opinion Job has done something really really bad in God’s eyes to have lost so much.
They took a sometimes truth and in their wisdom turned it into a universal truth by switching the variables around.
No matter Job’s protests of innocence, these friends wouldn’t budge.
Job is stunned at the accusations and the lack of answers.
No matter Job’s protests, these friends didn’t listen.
Their wisdom which God would hold them accountable for was not godly wisdom.
Not the kind of friends you want backing you up and supporting you.
Job is stunned at their inability to provide answers to his why questions and laments.
— From Job’s Perspective - Human Superiority over animals, surly the heights of wisdom should be expanding as well.
From Job’s perspective, look how far humanity has come!
Industry, Mining, Economics, and Farming.
There is much humanity was able to do already far surpassing the animals.
But when it comes to the wisdom behind the suffering of the innocent, humanity has no answers.
That’s especially true given human superiority and advancements - Verse 1-11
- Rejecting his friend’s accusations, the wisdom still alludes Job and humanity.
Rejecting his friend’s accusations, the wisdom he desires to still alludes him and humanity.
Verse 13 reads like a Proverb.
“Man does not comprehend wisdom’s worth.
Wisdom cannot be found in the land of the living.”
The wisdom he seeks is beyond humanity’s reach — Such wisdom can’t be minded from the deep nor can it be bought.
He finally concludes this wisdom can’t be found in the land of the living .
Job is not denying it’s existence.
The problem is he and his friends are looking in all the wrong places.
Despite all of humanity’s achievements, looking to humanity is not the answer.
- Humanity was deceived into believing wisdom could be gained by human action — eating from the fruit of the tree they were told not to eat from.
- Humanity would make a tower so high that it would touch heaven -
Like Job’s friends, many then and still now rely on poor substitutes with terrible result.
Earthly wisdom does not offer true answers, but it still tries to provide them and convince us its truth.
Like the beginning of - an explosion of technology makes us wonder if there is anything humanity can’t achieve.
But we know this to be true - such advances are not equalled by advances in wisdom.
Humanity’s reliance on itself is totally inadequate.
Today if you suffer - humanity’s wisdom calls it karma.
They have taken a+b and reversed it.
If you do bad, there are consequences.
Reversed, the so called wisdom concludes — the one suffering must have done something wrong.
Pushing God out of the picture, fate will take out its retribution.
ed on it’s head as absolute truth has also been kicked to the curb.
But it doesn’t stop there with suffering-
But it’s wisdom completely turned on it’s head as absolute truth has also been kicked to the curb.
But it doesn’t stop there with suffering-
But today - that wisdom behind karma is being replaced with another so-called wisdom that we best be aware of.
It’s proponents don’t adhere to the fear of God-but they wear badges as the modern intellectual agents of right and wrong.
Their new creed comes from twisting a+b equations with even worse conclusions:
If you suffer in any way, you are victim.
The second conclusion is this - To not be victim, you should be able to live as you please - marriage or not -whatever your orientation-whatever your gender— male, female, or any of the other six.
With absolute truth kicked to the curb, this is the new equation our society and country operates under.
If you suffer in any way, shape, or form — you are an oppressed victim.
And likewise --You should be able to live as you please with marriage or not or whatever your orientation— male, female, or any of the other six genders.
Once absolute truth and morality was kicked to the curb, this is the new equation our society operates under.
Listen carefully for it on both sides of the political aisle - that your candidate will right this wrong.
After all if you suffer in any way, shape, or form - you are not at all to blame.
You are just an oppressed victim in need of government, in need of me your candidate, your human savior against the enemies who have taken your happiness away.
Listen carefully for it on both sides of the political aisle - because your candidate will right this wrong.
If you suffer, you are a victim in need of government - and as your candidate, I will be your hero and restore your happiness.
Magnified to new heights — If you suffer, you are a victim...
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