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For many of us the book of Job stands directly in the center of one of the most complicated problems of life— the interaction between divine sovereignty and human responsibility. Its implications for a world of suffering and injustice is one that has provoked much tortuous thought for both Calvinists and Arminians. How Job deals with tremendous suffering—losing most of his earthly possessions,...

the inseparability of the divine attributes, a principle that allowed him to recognise that God’s justice and power are inseparable from God’s goodness. Because he understood the inseparability of the divine attributes, Calvin’s Elihu rightly charged Job with wrongly accusing God of acting according to an absolute or tyrannical power.15 In particular, Elihu sees adversity as educative16 rather than necessarily retributive. Adversity is often pedagogic, for “sometymes it is his will too trie the
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