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God took up the challenge, because He knew Job, and knew Job knew Him. God was confident Job would not turn away from Him because of affliction because Job didn’t just know about God, that God gives good things, but Job knew God, and that adversity comes from Him too. And in both, God is to be worshiped. His friends thought they knew God.
Meditation on Chapter One: Theology and the Study of God. In this first chapter Packer discusses the critical difference between knowing about God and knowing God. Knowing about God is the essence of theology, which literally means “study of God” (theo = God, ology = study of).
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The Bible is God speaking directly to His creation. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 tells us that, “all Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.”. The Bible is God’s way of teaching us about who He is ...
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Oct 7, 2014 · 1. Knowing God as the Highest Good. In Latin, there is a phrase called summum bonum, which means “the highest good out of which all other good flows.”. In this section, we will see how Scripture teaches that knowing God is the highest good above all other good things. The highest good is not helping people, it is not attaining great wealth ...
Knowing God more deeply was not the privilege of only a few luminaries in the Old Testament. God called all of His people to know Him personally and love Him supremely with heartfelt devotion. He called Israel to “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might” (Deut. 6:5).
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In John 17:3 Jesus prayed, “Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.”. Knowing God is essential for us to become like Him. It is essential for us to be able to fully trust that His way is best and that His law is good. Yet I think sometimes we don’t know how to move from ...
