{"id":163,"date":"2010-10-26T22:05:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T02:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=163"},"modified":"2010-10-26T22:09:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T02:09:43","slug":"who-is-this-god-job-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Who is this God? (Job 42)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And Job said, &#8220;[Now] I know that you can do anything, and no one can stop you&#8230;I was talking about things I knew nothing about, things far too wonderful for me&#8230;I sit in dust and ashes to show my repentance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Only a short time ago Job boasted that he was ready to face God. &#8220;Let the Almighty answer me&#8230; I would come before him like a prince.&#8221; What happened? &#8220;I had only heard about you before, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is impossible to imagine (let alone prepare for) such an encounter with the Almighty, the Righteous Judge of all men &#8212; which makes it all the more difficult to understand why He should turn to Eliphaz and say, &#8220;I will not treat you as [your sins] deserve&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Who is this God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And Job said, &#8220;[Now] I know that you can do anything, and no one can stop you&#8230;I was talking about things I knew nothing about, things far too wonderful for me&#8230;I sit in dust and ashes to show my repentance.&#8221; Only a short time ago Job boasted that he was ready to face God. &#8220;Let &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=163\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who is this God? (Job 42)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}