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Re: POV-RAY orange color
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 19 Aug 1999 14:36:34 GMT
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johnneal@*Spamcake*uswest.net
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Jesse Long wrote:
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> > 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).
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> Wasn't Job the guy that God bet the Devil about how unshakable his faith
> was?
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> 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.
It's a story. Didn't really happen. It is, however, a fascinating insight into
the development of the Jewish concept of God. An immature belief in God assumes
that the good in this world would get rewarded, and the bad punished. That's
fair, right? Well, they were starting to realize that bad things happen to
*good* people, and that a lot of bad people were doing just fine. Job addresses
this harse reality that life isn't fair, and sometimes God doesn't *seem* fair,
either.
IMO Job is one of the most interesting and honest books in the Bible.
-John
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes: <snip> (about Job) (...) into (...) assumes (...) addresses (...) fair, (...) John, I'm intrigued. In all the discussions I've followed here, you appear to have been arguing from the Christian point of (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: POV-RAY orange color
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| (...) Ah, OK. So what else in the bible is just a story, then, and what is true, if anything? None of the old, and all of the new testament? Or something different? And what's the basis for your sorting? AFAIAC, Jesus being the son of god is just a (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: POV-RAY orange color
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| (...) 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. (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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