Job’s friends, in Job’s opinion, provide nothing that can help him in his struggle to find the purpose of God and see the face of God in this situation. They are worthless.
It is Very Difficult to Discuss a Matter with God | Tom J. Nettles
No skeptic has ever entered such wrenching questions about God as did Job. No investigation of the problem of pain has ever been approached from a more existentially relevant position.
It is Your Fault | Tom J. Nettles
“…during this life, we do not see sin and judgment in a quid pro quo arrangement. Job’s experience, and the inspired narrative of it, constitutes a large portion of the special revelation as to how we are to regard suffering among the people of God.”
Francis Turretin’s Natural Theology: Natural Theology’s Use | John Sweat
Turretin lists five general uses or ends of natural theology.
The name of the Lord is to be Blessed | Tom J. Nettles
Do we see and feel God as our greatest good even if knowledge of him means the loss of all earthly things; do we revel in God because of the status and things that we associate with a life of devotion?
Francis Turretin’s Natural Theology: Natural and Supernatural Theology | John Sweat
Turretin situates natural theology as subordinate to supernatural theology for the latter is insufficient for a true knowledge of God or salvation.
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Francis Turretin’s Natural Theology: Natural Theology’s Definition | John Sweat
Turretin does not give a definition of natural theology other than describing what it consists of, “The natural, occupied with that which may be known of God (to gnōston tou Theou), is both innate (from the common notions implanted in each one) and acquired (which creatures gain discursively).”
The Heavenly Origin of Earthly Events | Tom J. Nettles
Any act of God that fixes our minds on the surpassing value of heavenly and eternal life is an excellent gift.
Francis Turretin’s Natural Theology: Francis Junius’s Influence | John Sweat
The early Reformed scholastic Francis Junius influenced Reformed theology greatly in his work A Treatise of True Theology.
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