If Satan is not a person, how do Christadelphians explain what "satan" was in the case of Job?
6
votes
1
answer
551
views
This is related to this other question about the Christadelphian view that Satan is not a person.
Here I wanted to ask how they view the case of Job. Job was apparently a real person as he is referred to in Ezekiel 14:14 where God said the words
> Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should
> deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord
> GOD.
Also James 1:13 says that God cannot be tempted with evil and does not bring about tests upon us just to see if we fail them or not
> Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot
> be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
In the case of Job the Bible gives this conversation between Satan and God (Job 2:2-3)
> And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan
> answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and
> from walking up and down in it. And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast
> thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the
> earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and
> escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou
> movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
In the context of Job, do Christadelphians view Satan as a principle of evil within God, some separate entity, or something else?
Asked by neo
(328 rep)
Jul 8, 2022, 05:11 PM
Last activity: Jun 5, 2024, 10:13 PM
Last activity: Jun 5, 2024, 10:13 PM