How By Faith and Not by Sight
- Would have it been unfair for Job to have known about the wager between God and Satan?
- Why is "seeing" "believing" for humans? What are some realities that cannot be seen? What are some things that we see that are not real?
- What enables a person to believe without seeing?
Evil Being
- If, as we believe, the book of Job was the first of the Bible books to be written, what themes might have deemed it important to be the first?
- How much does nature reveal God? How much does nature reveal Satan?
- How does order in the universe buttress belief in the justice of God?
With Friends Like These
- What made Job's friends believe like they did--that suffering was because of sin?
- How much of the character of Job would the three friends have been aware of?
- Why did God condemn the three friends for speaking wrong about him? What did they say about God that was wrong?
More Than Thorns and Thistles
- Did Satan create thorns and thistles, the mosquito, etc?
- Why would God permit Satan to mar nature?
- How much can science wipe out thorns, thistles and creatures like mosquitos?
Jesus and Job
- Why didn't God place Job in the Garden of Eden instead of Adam? Would history have been different?
- Assuming that Satan tried his hardest to hook Job and Jesus what made their trials the severest?
- If you were arranging the rewards for Job's success would you have made it any different?