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Re: POV-RAY orange color
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Fri, 20 Aug 1999 00:37:04 GMT
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JOHNNEAL@USWEST.NETspamless
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Simon Robinson wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
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> <snip> (about Job)
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> > 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.
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> John, I'm intrigued. In all the discussions I've followed here, you appear to
> have been arguing from the Christian point of view - but I don't know of
> that many Christians who'd argue that a story from the Bible didn't really
> happen.
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> What, exactly, do you believe?
Well, let me first say that I am a Christian, which is to say that I follow the
teachings of Jesus. Jesus was the Jewish Messiah who came from God to teach us
about Him and about how to live. His nature (man/God) is a mystery which cannot
be explained so I won't try but to say this: He *was* a human, and he *knew*
God's nature. The only way to know God's nature is to be God. I can't understand
how a man can be God at the same time, but I wouldn't put it past the Creator of
the Universe.
I don't think there is *a* Christian POV-- as I've said before it is a many
splintered thing.
Among Christian scholars, you will find this type of argument all of the time. I
am not saying that *I* am a Christian scholar, but there are many Christians who
do not believe in a *literal* interpretation of the Bible. I have studied the
Bible using critical methodology and have found it to be much more meaningful than
a straight, literal interpretation. One doesn't need to cast off one's intellect
to be a Christian, but one's intellect *can* be a stumbling block to believing.
-John
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> > IMO Job is one of the most interesting and honest books in the Bible.
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> Simon
> http://www.SimonRobinson.com
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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)
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