This article is my effort to extend the theological concept of God as infinite love, infinite dissonance, infinite energy and infinite time from the New Testament into the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. I invite you along on the journey. I am here in order to listen to the evidence and learn from the experience. I believe that the best way to help you learn is to show you how I learned rather than showing you the completed result.

I picked Job because it is a pivotal point in the Old Testament. Job is a theological debate. Several theological perspectives are clearly articulated as speeches made by various characters in this drama. Those alternative theologies carried weight in that time and still have meaning today. As I start this study it is my hope that I can demonstrate that the concepts of dissonance and love expressed by Jesus in the New Testament will be found here in Job as well and thus give evidence of continuity.

It is my belief that there is a continuity in theology from Job through the Old Testament prophets and into the New Testament. I do not have the time today to work back through each of the Old Testament prophets to get back to Job. Nor can I today start from Genesis and progress upward to Job. Instead I am starting with Job. I will then use Job to link backward and forward. This is strategic. It is my hope that if I can demonstrate the continuity of the themes of dissonance and love in Job and in the New Testament that you will then be able to fill in the gap through the Old Testament prophets on your own. I expect to find the unexpected and learn from that experience. Thus I hope that what I find in Job will change me and help me refine my concepts, improve my technique and thus be better prepared for the puzzles I find in the Pentateuch—the five books written by Moses.