I once read a long-time Bible scholar who claimed that Job was really sort of an imaginary figure created by a Hebrew writer. The scholar also went on to say that no one in Job’s time (perhaps the second millenium B.C.) understood life after death issues, etc. In other words, those people were just more primitive in their thinking.

As usual, the scholar’s statements are false. (Somehow, though, they have influenced huge numbers to believe the Bible is in fact a collection of fairy tales.)

From the book of Job, we read the protagonist say: “For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.”

Amazing. Not only does the book clearly claim that it is an historical account, Job himself shows just how knowledgeable he really was. In fact, I often say that Job is the greatest Bible prophecy teacher of all time. He had supernatural revelation about not only his own future, but the future of all people: Resurrection.

I’m a big advocate that the common man can understand the Bible and stand on it. Unbelieving scholars often show their own ignorance, because they believe the path to academic acceptance is to denigrate Scripture.

How pathetic is that?