{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Christ Covenant Church","title":"Journaling: Job 25-28","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3515,"description":"God’s exhaustive sovereignty (rule/control) and supreme power is experienced by all creatures in heaven and on earth (25:1-3).\n \nGod’s transcendence has caused some to believe that God’s view of things is different (qualitatively) to ours (even Scripture presents a condescension of what is actually true or accurate) (25:4-6; “One of the fundamental postulates of [liberal] theory, is the claim that God cannot reveal truth to us. And even if God could speak, humans are considered incapable of understanding whatever God might be attempting to say. [According to Protestant Liberalism], God’s inability to speak is [due to] His transcendence. This radical otherness of God means, among other things, that the human mind is incapable of comprehending the divine mind. Once this point is granted, it follows that the word of God can never be the communication of truth; divine revelation can never contain a cognitive content that can be apprehended by the human mind [qualitatively]. [As such] no revelation is propositional [or establishing accurate, reliable truth. The Bible is instead nothing more than divine condescension; e.g. Friedrich Schleiermacher[1]].” – Ronald Nash, The Word Of God And The Mind Of Man).\n \nThe value of our “counsel” (or verbal “help”) of the needy (those w/ “no power” or “no strength” or “no wisdom”) will always be determined by: 1) the source of that help/counsel (“with whose help have [we] uttered words, and whose breath has come out from [us]?”) (26:1-4; 2Co 10:5; Col 1:28, 3:16 “warning/admonishing” = To give strong counsel for the cessation of inappropriate behavior), 2) its ability to give comfort in light of God’s exhaustive sovereignty and power (26:1-4 w/5-10 [exhaustive sovereign rule/control], 6-14 [supreme power; “Rahab” = The proud one, Satan – see v13, “the fleeing serpent”; See also 9:13-14]).\n \nThe Bible presents accurate astronomical facts thousands of years (3k?) before such facts could be known scientifically (26:7 “He stretches the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UXGjftzm8Yw--IISwUKe6A6-CX1YtARptisfLmFJFoI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81Zjc4/MmNmNTMxZjNmOTgw/YjA1NWRhYmMxMTNl/YmE1Zi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}