Month: June 2016

Don: We see in the story of Job the overwhelming desire of Man to penetrate the knowledge of God. In the dialog between Job and his friends two things stand out: One is Job’s particularly insistent questions about God engendered by the circumstances of Job’s life. We want to know and think we need to…

Don: Job was beset by Satan, the epitome of evil. The Book of Job can be divided into three parts: Part one, consisting of Job 1 and 2, can be described as a prologue. It introduces the dramatis personae and outlines Job’s trials and tribulations. His trials are essentially a metaphor for the existential condition…

Don: Usually we think of evil as something that affects us adversely and personally—something that makes us suffer, causes us sorrow or pain, deprives us of wellbeing, disadvantages us, disrupts our happiness or contentment, afflicts us with loss. In short, we think of evil as anything that prevents us from living a joyous life. It…

Don: In some ways, the death and the resurrection of Jesus embody the concepts of good and evil. Following the parable we have been studying, Jesus made the observation recorded in this passage: As Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside by themselves, and on the way He…