{"product_id":"predictability-and-dominion-gary-north-9798500696830","title":"Predictability and Dominion: An Economic Commentary on Job","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRighteousness Produces Economic Growth.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Book of Job is a book about bad things happening to good people. If God's promises are sure, how is it that Job got hammered?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJob begins with a peculiar story. God challenged Satan to consider His servant Job, how righteous he was. Satan, a strict utilitarian, answered along these lines: \"He's in it for the money. He gets favored. Remove the favors, and he will curse you.\" To which God said: \"He's all yours.\" That was Chapter 1. It happened again in Chapter 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJob was beaten down. He had lost everything except a wife who gave him bad advice. He asked the classic question: \"Why me?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFour \"comforters\" came to visit him, and three of them blamed his sin for his troubles. He defended himself because he had done nothing wrong; they said he had. These friends invoked God's predictability. Job responded that God was not predictable in his case.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fourth comforter, a young man, had it right: Job did not have the right to call God into question. Then God appeared and reinforced what the young man had said. Then Job repented. Then he was blessed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProblem: his 10 dead children remained dead. How can this be explained?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere is the economic issue: The Mosaic law says that righteousness produces economic growth. Job was righteous, yet he lost. Is God's law trustworthy? Is God predictable? If he isn't, then how can there be Christian economics?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe main topics covered include: sanctions and predictability, the trustworthiness of the system of sanctions, the justice of God's sanctions, the sovereignty of God, and the response of God to Job's questions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-----\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis series, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Economic Commentary on the Bible\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, is published by \u003cstrong\u003eReconstructionist Radio\u003c\/strong\u003e, a producer and provider of Reformed (Postmillennial, Presuppositional, Covenantal, Calvinist, and Theonomic) Christian Reconstructionist podcasts, audiobooks, lectures, sermons, music, and other media. Content is made available from authors such as \u003cstrong\u003eGary North\u003c\/strong\u003e (Institute for Christian Economics, Point Five Press), \u003cstrong\u003eDavid Chilton\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eR.J. Rushdoony\u003c\/strong\u003e (Chalcedon Foundation), \u003cstrong\u003eJoel McDurmon\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003ePhil Kayser\u003c\/strong\u003e (Biblical Blueprints), \u003cstrong\u003eGreg Bahnsen\u003c\/strong\u003e (Covenant Media Foundation), \u003cstrong\u003eStephen Perks\u003c\/strong\u003e (Kuyper Foundation), \u003cstrong\u003eBojidar Marinov\u003c\/strong\u003e (Christendom Restored, Bulgarian Reformation), and many more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gary North\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8500696834\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798500696830\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/08\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.37d","brand":"Gary North","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46024829239551,"sku":"9798500696830","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5d0adcb4-2c02-4056-aef8-0ae18a8f9a93.jpg?v=1723129312","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/predictability-and-dominion-gary-north-9798500696830","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}