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Re: POV-RAY orange color
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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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).
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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.
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> 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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| (...) 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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