WHAT HAPPENS WHEN a friend’s advice is actually the devil talking? Maybe what a friend says sounds right, but (1) it either doesn’t fit you, (2) it doesn’t fit the circumstances, (3) it comes from bad theology, and/or (4) it comes from bad motives. After Job loses everything, his friend Eliphaz leads off the barrage of…
Tag: Revelation
Playing Peek-a-boo with God?
A GOD WHO HIDES—several Old Testament writers use the term. And obviously it is a great theme in Job as well (13:24). The writers of the Psalms, the prophet Isaiah … it is the common experience of God’s people ever since the Garden of Eden, where we hid ourselves from God. At the risk of…