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Subject: 
Re: POV-RAY orange color
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Mon, 23 Aug 1999 22:13:51 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Stanley writes:
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.

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 wrong, or that
He could misjudge a faithful servant.

-Tom McD.
when replying, double-backed adhesive tape does not pick up spamcake crumbs
very well.



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  Re: POV-RAY orange color
 
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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