The Book of Job

Behemoth in the Book of Job is obviously a reference to what science calls dinosaurs. Dinosaurs and man lived together at one time. Wherefore where else would our words "Run like hell!" come from? Etymologically alone the proof is there.

I find Job to be a penetrating book. There is alot in the words of God alone at the end that you can draw things from.

But regarding Arnold Murray refusing to teach from this book because he thought it was all nonsense up to the last chapters where God finally appears and speaks, I can see his problem. It's not a book you want to draw truth from verse by verse like other inspired books of the Bible. You have to see each part of Job in the context of the bookended situation. Why God has afflicted Job (Satan's meeting with God at the beginning and all that). I.e. the meaning and cause of Job's affliction is something he can't know. It's above him. His is to suffer and not question God. Then you can comment on each part from this higher perspective and you don't have to take every utterance of Bildad as Scriptural truth, which is what Murray seems to think his bind is when he teaches that book on the air.

Really what you get overall that is Scriptural truth from the Book of Job is doctrine. It really does teach Calvinist doctrine, which is to say it teaches things like the sovereignty of God, man's inability to save himself, etc., etc. The hard truths that make one God centered rather than man centered.