1:1 Is this similar to “once
upon a time”? What do you know about the
land of Uz? What does it mean that he “feared
God”?
2:1 How many heavenly
beings are there? What is the meaning of
the name “Satan”?
2:2 Would not an omniscient
God not have to ask this question? Do I
hear an echo of Genesis chapter 3 verse 9?
Did Satan prefer the earth to heaven?
2:3 Why did the LORD bring
up the topic of Job? Since Satan had
just been on the earth, is this a put down of Satan, God saying to Satan “Job
is better than you”?\
2:4 What is the meaning of “skin
for skin”?
2:5 What does it mean
to touch bone and flesh?
2:6 Is this going to be a
test of Job’s integrity or Satan’s power?
Is God testing, even tempting, Satan?
2:7 Is there a double
meaning at work here?
2:8 Some days, we anyone of
us may feel like Job.
2:9 Why do Republicans not
accuse Job’s wife of constituting the first death panel?
2:10 Job is, above all, a
man of clear logic. Job may not have
sinned with his lips, but what about with his heart or mind?
26:1 Yep, this sounds like
something Job would have said.
26:2 What about lead me not
into temptation?
26:4 If I did this, how
could I stay in the church?
26:6 This Psalmist is
beginning to sound self-righteous.
26:7 What are God’s
wondrous deeds?
26:8 Can we truly say this
when God is omnipresent? This seems to
reflect worship of a domesticated God confined to the Temple rather than a wild
and primitive wandering God sometimes abiding in a tent, a cloud, and a column
of fire.
26:11 Is the Psalmist
pleading his case before God’s bench?
26:12 What is “the great
congregation”.
1:1 “A long time ago in a
galaxy far, far away...." Sorry, wrong story. What were the many and various ways God spoke
by the prophets?
1:2 What does the author
mean by “last days”? Why the plural “worlds”?
1:3 What is the difference
between a reflection and an imprint?
What is his powerful word? Does “purification
for sins” presume any particular understanding of the atonement?
1:4 What name did he
inherit and from whom did he inherit it?
2:5 What is the coming
world?
2:6 What is the source of
this saying?
2:9 Is death suffering, of
did Jesus suffer in a way that no human has suffered and died?
2:10 Who are God’s many
children? What is perfection?
2:12 Where in the Gospels does
Jesus say this?
10:2 How many Pharisees,
two, twenty, two hundred? Were the Pharisees
seeking to “test” Jesus as God tested Job and the Psalmist? What could Jesus know about a man having a
wife?
10:3 What did Moses, or
what did God command you?
10:4 So much for family
values.
10:5-9 This seems to answer
a question about divorce, or rather the afterlife, not marriage, let alone same
sex marriage. Speaking of same sex
marriage, check out this Stand For Love link: http://www.mlp.org/2012/10/03/stand-for-love/
10:10 In whose house? Where the disciples also seeking to test
Jesus?
10:11-13 How have Biblical
literalists arguing against same sex marriage seem to ignore the fact that
Jesus said nothing about same sex marriage but said this about heterosexual marriage
and divorce?
10:13 Ouch. This sounds ugly in light of recent sexual
abuse of young boys by priests and football coaches. I would prefer “laying on of hands” rather than “touch”.
10:14 How can the kingdom
og God belong to little children. Can we
grow to big or too old for God’s kingdom?
10:15 I think a whole
sermon could be preached based on this single verse.
10:16 Who do we bless and
how do we bless them?
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