For many of us the book of Job stands
directly in the centre 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, family and health - and
how God deals with Job's suffering,
does not necessarily make a nicely
packaged story.
The issues Job faced are ones that all
Christians will struggle with to one
degree or another.