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			Good explanation Malachi, I'm printing it out and sticking it into my Bible at the beginning of Job as a permanent reminder.
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			So I can dismiss my criticism of Job as being born of a difference in cultural context and time?  
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
	I'm okay with that, but that begs the question, what do modern theists gather that I do not? Or what I have begun to wonder, what do modern theists overlook that 2nd century hebrews did not? Not exactly a different question, just two ends of a spectrum I guess.  | 
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