Making a (Pre) Supposition

In Job 32, after Job's three friends have their go at Job, a younger man steps up to the plate. His name is Elihu. Elihu is all bent out of shape for this reason:

"He burned with anger also at Job's three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong."

In other words - "we all know you're wrong Job, we just haven't found a good way to prove it!"

All four of them presupposed that they were right and Job wrong. In fact, they were all wrong - even Job gets some grief from God when He finally speaks. But God only rebuked Job for thinking that God owed him justice when in fact God owes man nothing. Job's friends, however, got pretty beat up and ended up having to bring sacrifices and beg Job to pray for them.

But how often do we in our own arrogance think that our opinions are correct and that the other person must be wrong - no matter whether I can prove it or not. A lot of people approach the Bible that way.

"A fish couldn't swallow a man, there couldn't have been worldwide flood, God didn't make the earth" and so on. So they throw out the whole thing based on a supposition. "If I can't wrap my human reason around a concept then it must be false and so therefore Jesus is false too."

As God shows up on the scene in Job 38, His first words practically are these "where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?" How can we as humans boast about something we have no first hand knowledge of? Just because science can't prove something doesn't make it false.

In our modern day we get pretty puffed up but in reality we are just kids in a sandbox making presuppositions.