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Subject: 
Re: POV-RAY orange color
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Thu, 19 Aug 1999 14:29:50 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote:
> Jesse Long wrote:
> 
> > Ideally the worst times are the times that gloify Him the most, as it gives
> > you a chance to display your faith in Him aven though life sucks (think
> > Job).
> 
> Wasn't Job the guy that God bet the Devil about how unshakable his faith
> was?
> 
> I'll have no truck with a god that would do such a thing as allow
> another deity to throw his worst at me just to settle a bet.

That story has always bugged me too.  I don't really see how some
people see it as one that makes God look good.  Satan basically
ego-trips him into letting him royally dump on Job, and God, who is
supposed to be so loving of his creation, let's him do it.

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(...) I had never heard of the idea that this was a bet. But I could see how it could come across that way. Yet it wasn't really a bet at all because God had nothing to lose and he knew it. I'd call Satan a fool for even thinking that God could be (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: POV-RAY orange color
 
(...) Wasn't Job the guy that God bet the Devil about how unshakable his faith was? I'll have no truck with a god that would do such a thing as allow another deity to throw his worst at me just to settle a bet. (27 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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