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Originally Posted by votivesoul
Maybe this was already addressed, as I haven't read every page, but, as you keep bringing up Job, I submit the following about Job:
Job was not a Jew, and was not part of the Sinai Covenant given to Israel through Moses. As such, his life was not governed by the Torah as revealed in the Pentateuch.
His ability, therefore, to be righteous, or not, was not determined by the keeping of the ordinances revealed in the Mosaic Law.
His was a law of the conscience, as Romans 2:14 shows: |
There is no proof that Job was not an Israelite (not a 'Jew', there were more tribes than just Judah). The text does not identify exactly who Job was.
Romans 2:14 is a reference to Gentiles who have entered the new covenant. Outside of the new covenant, there is no Biblical mention of anyone having the laws of God 'written on the heart'.
There is evidence that Job knew the laws of God:
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
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Job 23:11-12 KJV)
Job knew 'his steps', he knew 'his way', he kept God's 'way', he knew and had not departed from 'the commandment of his lips' and he esteemed 'the word of his mouth more than ... food.' Thus, Job knew the way, commandment, and word of God, as it had been revealed at that time. This may indeed be pre-Sinai, but the laws of God were around and in place before Sinai, as it says in Genesis:
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
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Genesis 26:5 KJV)
There is in fact evidence that Job was aware of all ten of the ten commandments, which we can get into if desired.
The fact that Job repeatedly refers to 'sin' and transgression against God indicates that Job was aware of the law of God, and that it was in force. Where there is no law, there is no sin. So if there is sin, there must be law. (Law, in this instance in regard to Job and Abraham, should not be confused as referring to the Sinaitic Covenant - also known Scripturally as 'the law'. The Sinaitic Covenant took the laws of God and enshrined them into a specific covenant with Israel. But the laws of God - except for those things specifically unique to the Sinaitic Covenant - have been around from the beginning. After all, it has ALWAYS been sin to murder your neighbor, etc.)
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