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maybe it's been a while since you've read Job; you must have forgotten the account.. Job 1:9-12 So Satan answered the LORD and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing? Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work...

The noun איבה ('eba), meaning enmity occurs a mere four times in the Bible, but perhaps most notably in God's decree to the serpent: "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel" (Genesis...

from what i am reading, that is inaccurate. Job may mean 'water carrier' or, stretching the theme, 'he who weeps' it is also related to 'father' and the stem for 'persecuted' or 'one with whom there is enmity' even 'enmity' is not equivalent to 'hated' looking into your claim, it's...

the destruction of Jerusalem and the captivity of Israel was a judgement for sin. the troubles of Job are emphatically not in judgement of Job's sin. that's kind of the whole theme; dunno if you've read it? so, this is a very flimsy argument on your part, and has essentially no weight. just...

this is honestly a really flimsy argument. you might as well claim Revelation was written in the 6th century BC since it has to do with Israel and prophecies made around that time.

the Law was not till hundreds of years after Abraham. it's pretty strange for someone to worship the God of Jacob and talk about doing so for 40 chapters, yet pretend the whole time there is no such thing as Jacob... if it is in a time period after Jacob. but not at all, if it is long before...

yes For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. (Philippians 2:13) it is God doing the work in us who are in The Way -- both to will, and also to do therefore there can be no boasting, not of our will, nor of our works -- because it by His grace and by His...

there is no record of the king of babylon having prolonged discussions about sin, righteousness, and the requirements of God from man. but Nebuchadnezzar does not give indication that he is saved until the end of Daniel 4, when he recognizes that YHVH is the only true God. before this while he...

if they worship the God of the Hebrews in the days of the Law they would be proselyte. so is your suggestion that the God of the book of Job isn't the same God of Jacob?

typo i didn't catch - many of the words are like Hebrew but aren't spelled the same, and many others are not Hebrew at all.

the relative similarity of some lamenting phrases in the two books could be explained by Job being a more ancient text, that Jeremiah was familiar with. there is also a phrase or two in Isaiah that is similar: it doesn't mean they were written concurrently, nor that Job quotes Isaiah; it could...

it is not the duty of a stranger to do anything. we follow Him because we are His sheep, not in order to become His sheep. if by works, grace is no longer grace, but a wage. what had blinded you from being able to see this?

John 6:29 says that we believe is the work of God.

"boastful works" is an utterly unscriptural, completely human term devised as a clever way to attempt to thwart His grace, an humanist end-run denying the power of God. and unfortunately that's all it seems you've got. friend, there is much more than that. lay down your self, and seek Him

Ephesians 2:9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. the works we cannot boast of are the ones we have not done at all. for example, the work that only God Himself - not your or i - has done, that He alone accomplished, without our help, in fact, despite what we did and do: Ephesians 1:7 In...

name one thing it is impossible to boast of

that man believed in his heart, and confessed with his mouth. his faith wasn't alone; Christ was with him

the Bible doesn't say salvation is not by "boastful works" the Bible says Salvation is "not by works" John 6:29 Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God: that you believe in Him whom He sent."

@Beckworth in your view can a person who has sinned ever regain their salvation? for example, having spoken falsely, are you now eternally damned, all your works that you believe merit eternal life as a wage made forfeit by your mistake?

Nope. false again. what does scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness. decades before he took Isaac to the mountain.