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THE PROBLEM OF EVIL & SUFFERING

OBJECTIVES:

TESTING

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Suffering as Testing: Refining Fire

BDAG

  • “The process or means of determining the genuineness of something.”
  • “To draw a conclusion about worth on the basis of testing.”

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L/N – “To try to learn the genuineness of something by examination and testing, often through actual use.”

  • 1 Pet. 1:6-7
  • James 1:2-4
  • Ps. 66:10-12
  • Prov. 17:3
  • Ezek. 22:17-22
  • Zech. 13:7-9
  • Mal. 3:1-4
  • Rev. 3:17-18

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Suffering as Testing: Examples

Gen. 2:16-17 – The Garden

Gen. 22 – Abraham

Job 1-2; 23:10-12

Ex. 15:22-26

Ex. 16:4

Ex. 20:18-21

  • Deut. 13:1-5
  • Judges 2:19-3:4
  • Hezekiah (2 Chron. 32:31)

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  • Testing vs. Tempting (James 1:13)

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