You have not yet demolished God's flat-out statement:
Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil."
You need nothing less than another flat-out statement from God stating just the opposite. God emphasizes His point, in fact, by making four flat-out statements:
There is no one on earth like Job
Job is blameless and upright
Job fears God
Job shuns evil.
If God were merely expressing Job's opinion of himself, God would not have emphasized it in four different ways. You must necessarily demolish each of those four statements.
Also what the poster never mentioned deliberately to place a false premise in everyone's mind is the actual context of God's statement, that was a sneak preview to the scene in heaven where Satan and his fallen angels accompanying him presented themselves to The Lord.
What perspires is a conversation between Satan and The Lord and the initial introduction is when The Lord asked Satan. Just where do you think you have been?
Satan replies in a disobedient and brazen like manner by saying:
"I have been going back and forth from earth and I have manifested myself down there and walked as a man on it"
This opening scene Job was not privy to, he simply was not to know, however the writer was given the message through prophecy as a witness, for this was the way God communicated what he wanted to communicate, that is, through his prophets. This has been and will always be the way God does things.
Job 1:6-7
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
So for the poster to say that Job opined by his own merits of his own sinlessness is a most preposterous claim because of failing to highlight the original context of the opening scene in heaven.
You responded to the poster and gave a rightful answer in regards to God's view of Job and that much is certain that Job was without fault before God and this picture that God presented was in fact of himself who when he came down as the man, Jesus of Nazareth, is the essence of what the name Job truly meant.
JO-AB means Yahweh is Father
JO-B means Yahweh is persecuted
In Hebrew or Aramaic it is E-U-B when you say them in American pronunciation by further emphasising the vowel E, like EEE-YOU-B and not forgetting to say the B sound at the end.
Now you know the proper way of saying the name.
So Job became as shadow of what was to become of Jesus the almighty Yahweh when he being without sin was falsely accused and cursed to death. Yet God as he made a comparison to himself as his foreshadow of the things to come when he would be presented as a sinless and condemned man, projected this on one man called Job (EEE-YOU-B) whom he brought back to health and gave him back 100 fold of his wealth.
So in essence Job was presented before Satan as a faultless man who depicted the Christ to come and Satan had absolutely no idea what God was on about and he sought to destroy one of God's vessels thinking that he can prove God to be wrong.
The egg fell on Satan's face twice as God had personally sought to make an absolute ass of Satan when he not only proved him wrong about Job's faultless ness, but also he had setup Satan for the fall when he presented himself as the sinless Job all the while Satan was pulling the arguments that this poster was pulling unbeknown to how calculated God was in making a fool out of Satan, for the statement by God exposed Satan's foley, who staunchly attacked God's statement about Job, by saying to God:
Who Job? Sinless? Ha you could have fooled me but let me prove you wrong God and that was what was going through Satan's mind at that particular meeting. God however did not declare Job as sinless, however he presented him as a man without fault and that was the bait that Satan took line hook and sinker.
I just love the way God plays with all the fools that think they can put human arguments before God. Language and all the knowledge and wisdom in the world being used against God will end up making you a fool like Satan was portrayed, not only to the crowd of fallen angels that accompanied him but also to the human family that can see Satan's foley ending up being used against him by his own hand.
Today in the 21st century the spirit of this foley is at work ever more as people think to challenge God on many fronts and I certainly do not imply this to the poster but to the unbelieving world at large and at time it has also absorbed the believers into this worldly argument and debates arising from such foley and these debates are:
1) Does God exist
2) Is Jesus the Almighty God and so on .......
All these characterised this foley of the spirit that Satan used back then and now this same spirit is in man who is being employed and at times, without their knowledge, to challenge God at every turn.
I have sincerely warned you in love that such foley will not be tolerated by God and will cause a greater damnation if a Christian is perpetrating this vile act against God.
