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HABAKKUK The Questioning Prophet 6.6.21 Misunderstandings about the Bible: • The Bible doesn’t answer all of our questions. • The Bible doesn’t guarantee success or prosperity in every area of life. • The Bible invites us into dialogue, mystery, and faith, not just certitudes. • The Bible doesn’t “record” history objectively but interprets it through real people in real-time and places. Habakkuk 1:2-4 2 How long, Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save? 3 Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds. 4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted. Habakkuk’s problem with God: 1. Indifference: God, you don’t seem to care. 2. Inactivity: God, you aren’t doing very much even though you could. 3. Unfair: God, what you are doing doesn’t seem fair. Habakkuk 1:5-11 5 “Look a