marks,
i appreciate your concern and am asking that you carefully review Post 475 and all the Scriptures that Speak to us Truth
Do a check list:
A.) Christ declares Abel with the prophets = Matt 23:31-36
B.) Job suffers by the Will of God just as JESUS did and Job, by the holy Spirit, uttered the same words of Isaiah and the LORD (remember they do not need to be exact) just as the Apostle Paul proved in his writings as well as the writer of Hebrews.
C.) James, by the holy Spirit, included Job with the prophets = James 5:7-12
D.) Apostle Peter, by the Holy Spirit, includes every man that was "moved by the Holy Spirit" to either speak or direct God's Truth.
E.) God includes with the prophet Daniel, Noah and Job = God was very very very SPECIFIC in doing so as the 3 Men are Prophetic
You are simply repeating your false equivalencies.
I have an apple, a piece of bread, and a chunk of cheese. That doesn't mean bread is an apple, or that an apple is cheese.
This began when I saw where you had written that Job had said, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?, and I replied with the correct verse written by David in the Psalms.
After that you posted a number of passages from Job that you picked out words here and there to associate them with events pertaining to Jesus, in order to claim Job to be a prophet, apparently to obscure that you had mistakenly named Job for your quote from David.
And since then you've continued to address this secondary point of whether Job was a prophet, seemingly because you are not willing to acknowledge the mistaken attribution.
This is really extreme! I can't think of anyone I've seen to pound this much pavement in order to avoid one tiny little step back.
A.) Christ declares Abel with the prophets = Matt 23:31-36
Personally I prefer to post the passage, and underline the place that says what I'm claiming. I've so often found that those who just post a reference do so contrary to what the passage itself says. You post a reference, but it doesn't support your claim.
Matthew 23:31-39 KJV
31) Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
32) Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
33) Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
34) Wherefore, behold,
I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
35) That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
36) Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
37) O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
38) Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
39) For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Not all who were killed were prophets.
"all the righteous blood shed upon the earth", Abel is included in these.
This passage does not declare Abel a prophet.
B.) Job suffers by the Will of God just as JESUS did and Job, by the holy Spirit, uttered the same words of Isaiah and the LORD (remember they do not need to be exact) just as the Apostle Paul proved in his writings as well as the writer of Hebrews.
Yes, Job suffered, but Job did not say the quote you gave, David did.
I don't know why you cannot bring yourself to admit this and move on, instead to continue to pile up more and more misinformation.
As for the exactitude of Paul's quotations, I'd remind you that most our translations are from the Masoretic MS, while the NT writers often quoted from the LXX. Saying, "they didn't have to be saying the same thing to be saying the same thing", you are just giving yourself license to to interpret however you will. I suppose we are seeing the results of that.
C.) James, by the holy Spirit, included Job with the prophets = James 5:7-12
Another of those references that don't say what you assert.
James 5:7-11 KJV
7) Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
8) Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
9) Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
10)
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
11) Behold, we count them happy which endure.
Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
We love eating a lemon cake, zesty, tangy! We enjoy lemonaide, refreshing, tangy lemonaide!
But lemon cake is not lemonaide.
Take for example the prophets, an example of affliction and patience. You've heard the patience of Job, the Lord is merciful!
Two examples of patience, the prophets, and Job. And no, this does not show Job a prophet.
None of your passages show Job to be a prophet, and that's not even what this is about.
You mistakenly attributed a quote from David to Job.
Mountains from molehills!
It's healthy to be able to admit mistakes, and very unhealthy to not be able to.
And I just don't know what else I can say to you, only that I pray for you!
Much love!