Wisdom Literature, Traumatic-Suffering, and Embodied-Souls
I’m enjoying my Genesis-to-Revelation study of the Bible’s teaching on being soul physicians who counsel embodied-souls who experience traumatic-suffering. Recently, I’ve been in the wisdom literature. I’ve posted several blogs summarizing some of my studies in Job, Psalms, and Proverbs.
From Job, I’ve posted:
When Your Counselor Makes Your Life Worse! This post collates over four dozen examples of poor counseling from Job’s miserable counselors. 3 Major Problems with Elihu’s Counseling of Job. Since God condemns Job’s three miserable counselors, everyone agrees that they are not a model to follow. However, people debate whether Job’s fourth counselor—Elihu—was a good or poor counselor. As my title suggests, I believe Elihu is also a miserable counselor. How Not to Empathize: Job’s Miserable Counselors. Here I outline more unbiblical counsel from Job’s miserable counselors.
From Psalms (and related to Job), I’ve posted:
Psalm 88: “The Dark Night of the Soul.” If Heman Saw a Miserable Counselor… Reflecting on Job’s experience, I started wondering what it might sound like, and be like, if Heman—the human author of Psalm 88—visited a miserable counselor. If Heman Saw a Comforting Counselor. Here we imagine
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