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Old 03-06-2002, 03:43 AM   #31
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<strong>With all due respect, Boro, you need to read it. It was Satan who was in a strop, if anyone, and he dared God and God accepted the dare. </strong>
God=Satan. I worked that one out years ago.
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God=Satan. I worked that one out years ago.</strong>
Oh, excuse me - I didn't realize that was one of your a priori assumptions

Jung agreed with you, I think

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She completely missed the point which HelenSL got, i.e that the Book of Job was written as a corrective to the common notion that suffering is the result of personal spiritual defect. The story's point in part is that gods are capricious and likely to sell out even the most righteous of men on a bet, and onlookers shouldn't assume a cause and effect relationship between sin and ill fortune. It wasn't that god had a plan, just that he was trying to prove a point to the accuser, and we see though it involved killing the family and destroying the property of one of his finest devotees, this didn't make god blink even once. Neat god. I see why Christians love him the way a battered child loves their abuser.
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Old 03-07-2002, 07:41 AM   #35
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<strong>What about Job's wife? I've heard a lot of sermons on that books, and I don't think she ever gets enough credit.</strong>
Lucy once said a very similar statement in a Peanuts comic strip in which Charlie Brown's baseball team was having a theological discussion of Job.
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Lucy once said a very similar statement in a Peanuts comic strip in which Charlie Brown's baseball team was having a theological discussion of Job.</strong>
I was wondering if anyone would catch where that came from. But I do think she was right about that, so I thought it was appropriate to quote it here.
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I was wondering if anyone would catch where that came from. But I do think she was right about that, so I thought it was appropriate to quote it here.</strong>
I learned to read on Peanuts books and have a lot of the dialogue from the 1960's era books memorized.
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I loved Mordecai Richler's take on Job in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - One of Duddy's older relatives (grandfather? I forget) with a bit of a criminal past quotes YHWH as saying: "Where the fxxx was you when I creatded de woild?..." It's a scream and well done in the movie.
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