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Theodicy in God's plan of salvation.

Have you considered my servant Job God asked to Satan in an infamous meeting found in the book of Job in the Old Testament. Many theologians have taken this verse to teach on the sovereignty of God, but I assume there's something deeper hidden in this text in the Old Testament. It has to do with free choice and the choice of good over evil. We are all put on this planet to fulfill a purpose, some Christians will say that that purpose is found when one repents of their sins and receives God's forgiveness. This is true in a sense but it doesn't quite give us a full picture of what was happening in this famous meeting between God and Satan. The theological reason for this meeting was free will or free choice. Theodicy is the justification of God in the presence of evil, we may ask why certain things happen to us and how can God still be righteous and just when bad things happen to good people I think there was a book called by that name. It wasn't that God was testing Job even though that's what it was, satan was testing God.

He was testing God's plan of salvation, and the free will of man claiming that Christ sacrifice on the cross would still cause men to sin, therefore giving God justice to send a person to hell even after they have repented of their sins. Of course we know that once you've been forgiven you're forgiven for all time, but Satan wanted to prove this in the life of Job. He wanted Job to renounce his belief and faith in God, and as a result Satan was testing God to see if this actually happened would God still punished Job in hell. Satan knew God was just but he wanted to prove that man even in his redeemed sinfulness was not capable of earning heaven. Although Satan lost in the end when God doubly blessed his servant Job, The theological implications of this passage in the book of the Old Testament, found in the first chapter of Job, show us that God is ultimately vindicated even in the presence of evil thus the Theodicy. The book was about a servant of the Lord being tested through the means of a fallen angel. The fallen angel not only wanted to see if men would still maintain his integrity when everything was taken from him, but he also had a strange curiosity as to why man was endowed with free will where his angels are only commanded to do certain things.

The question looms large and this is the question of the ages in regards to suffering. Will man maintain his integrity, through his free will or will he worship Satan by giving over his will not to God but to the devil. The cross of Jesus Christ sets us free from the power of sin, it also gives us the ability to maintain our free will so that we may choose good instead of evil. The fact that Christ lives inside each and every Christian, maintains the fact and disqualifies Satan's error that man can and will it maintain his integrity when faced with evil. Only Christ can do this in us, this is Mike.

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