Don\u2019t worry, this isn\u2019t one of those Buzzfeed quizzes \u2013 although perhaps I should make it one!<\/p>\n
But\u00a0in reading assignments from a course that I teach, I was struck by the contrast between Abraham and Job.<\/p>\n
Abraham and Job are both tested. Abraham obeys unquestioningly. Job questions daringly.<\/p>\n
How is it that people can point to Abraham as an ideal\u00a0example of faith, and not mention that Job is also an example of faithfulness through testing \u2013 but whose response was very different?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Don\u2019t worry, this isn\u2019t one of those Buzzfeed quizzes \u2013 although perhaps I should make it one! But\u00a0in reading assignments from a course that I teach, I was struck by the contrast between Abraham and Job. Abraham and Job are both tested. Abraham obeys unquestioningly. Job questions daringly. How is it that people can point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":26199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28],"tags":[298,3329,5750,8795,8797,12419],"class_list":["post-27664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-of-job","category-genesis-bible","tag-abraham","tag-faith","tag-job","tag-patriarch","tag-patriarchs","tag-testing"],"yoast_head":"\n