Following God's statutes and precepts is often linked to promises of blessings, prosperity, and protection, while disobedience may lead to consequences (e.g., Deuteronomy 28 and you feeling like pic related).

What are "precepts"? Divine instructions, commandments, and principles given by God to guide human behavior and foster a righteous life.

"Precepts" are specific divine rules or teachings, often synonymous with commandments, statutes, or laws in the holy Scriptures.

Why live a righteous life? Because it's linked to promises of blessings, prosperity, and protection. It's what aligns your life with God's. While disobedience may lead to consequences (e.g., Deuteronomy 28 and you looking like pic related).

>>33413815 (OP)
>"Statutes" are specific divine rules or teachings, often synonymous with commandments, statutes, or laws in the holy Scriptures.**

>>33413815 (OP)
>Following God's statutes and precepts is often linked to promises of blessings, prosperity, and protection,
But manifestly none of this actually happens; so what's your point?

>>33413815 (OP)
I won't read sermons on an advice board.

>>33413815 (OP)
I disagree. The whole book of Job and the story of Christ himself disavows the concept that following God's will negates suffering and achieves worldly success.

If you are polytenizing for the benefit of people's worldly life in the name of Christ, I think you are misinformed at best.

Otherwise, I think you are Jewish.

>>33416579
Job effectivly invalidates the entire Bible.
It explicitly dismisses a transactional relationship with God. That's literaly the foundation of every concept in Christianity. Any organized religion really.

I don't know why it was included at its compilation.

>>33416629
>Job effectivly invalidates the entire Bible

It actually showcases some or most of the curses in Deuteronomy 28:15-68 happening to Job's life. Even on down to the boils mentioned in Deuteronomy 28:27.


It was also a book meant to alert you of what the devil is up to on a regular basis: begging God to cause trouble, and nagging to God every single time an individual commits a sin. The example of Job was to show what the devil does in the lives of many. He wishes to take your hard earned work and snuff it out, leaving you nothing to show but misery. He wishes to take your years or decades of marriage, and destroy it in a single night.

It also shows you God's grace and willingness to restore what was lost. And even wishes to give you double. Pretty much remaining faithful to His promise in Isaiah 61:7. It's just up to you to avoid sinning, just as Christ told the one guy in John 5:14.

>For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.

It's not just a story of "wHy iS gOd sO MeAn".

>>33413815 (OP)
>Why live a righteous life?
Because it keeps you out of misery. That’s exactly what it’s meant to do. For every single suicidal, depressed, miserable, gooning loner or for every antisocial narcissistic womanising, whore-mongering hedonist, you’ll notice they have one thing in common: They hate existing. They do not enjoy it. Waking up in the morning for them takes an act of courage to even bother. They hate it here.

And if you’re a man ask both of them about righteousness, or virtue, they either have no idea what you’re on about, or they do, and they spit at you for reminding them.

King Solomon already spoke a great deal about the mindset behind it. He was a degenerate before his obedience. He knows the craft well. He warns about all of it in the book of Proverbs.

Disobedience leads to consequences because they are your consequences. Same as it would be your consequence if you were told not to touch a live wire, yet you got electrocuted anyway. Would you blame the wire, or yourself? In a same way, if you commit spiritual self harm, then why blame God?

>>33417746
What Job shows you is that God is willing to murder innocent children for no reason at all except to win a bet. That's the important lesson.

>>33417796
God didn’t kill them. It’s unknown how they died, but the implication is that Satan convinced them into self-destruction in a variety of ways.

>Win a bet
Having faith in someone isn’t a bet. That would be God’s faith in Job.

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>>33417796
I should be more specific: It’s suggested a ‘great wind’ tore through the desert, collapsed Job’s home, killing 10 children and his family inside.

Whether thats figurative or literal, who knows. But if it’s figurative and the great wind is allegory for Satan’s temptations, then it makes sense. Becomes very realistic too. I’ve seen and watched entire families get wiped out from that. Just the other year, last one of them I knew died. All his brothers dead from heroin overdoses, father dead from alcohol abuse, mother dead from grief, died young after burying her own sons, final son died via cardiac arrest due to binge eating his sorrows into an early grave. All it took was a wind of temptation to hit that family and it collapsed, everyone died.

>>33413815 (OP)
Sounds like evil cult promises, anon.
Read Revelations. Everything is in there.