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Do you think you are confusing discipline with punishment? All of God's children, whom he loves, are disciplined. This includes Job and Christ. Christ's obedience was perfect righteousness was proved through discipline. Suffering is essential for spiritual maturity. Job was disciplined to prove first that he was God's man but secondly to reveal and purge a prideful spirit. All of life is discipline in that it leads to repentance and sanctification (maturity).
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