...mward/gkc/books/job.html G.K. Chesterton on _Job_. Also...his power" to contend with Job's questions -- exactly the opposite...very unwilling to be questioned. Chesterton again: "He only asks for...the evil it contains. Here Chesterton gets something right: "When God...happens against Yahweh's will. Chesterton finishes, "In the prologue we...
....uk/~mward/gkc/books/job.html G.K. Chesterton on _Job_. Also here... the "fair intellectual duel" that Chesterton imagines, the Creator begins by ... the evil it contains. Here Chesterton gets something right: "When God is... happens against Yahweh's will. Chesterton finishes, "In the prologue we ... good fortune. Rather than defending Job, Yahweh unhesitatingly agrees to test ...
... Does it say so - The Book of Job repeatedly and explicitly calls Yahweh the Almighty, ...knitting - have you gone mad? the Book of Job does the opposite, rubbish - the creator creates all the...is responsible for all cures... describing him giving Satan his divine o.k. to afflict Job with a terrible disease, well - lets see AIDs? Lukemia? Parkinsons Cancer...
...<somewhere@overtherainbow.com>: Does it say so - The Book of Job repeatedly and explicitly calls Yahweh the Almighty, making nonsense of your ...hand. Instead of depicting the Creator curing sickness, the Book of Job does the opposite, describing him giving Satan his divine o.k. to afflict Job with a terrible disease, contrary to claims for Yahweh's justice and goodness. And...
...felt free to curse Him? Quite unlike Job who refused to curse God Half-truth. After Job refuses to curse Yahweh, Satan goes back and asks for the Creator's o.k. to sharpen Job's torments, i.e., to harm him in his own...him a divine go-ahead, Satan afflicts Job "in bone and flesh." A week or... suffering in his own skin changes Job's thinking dramatically. Tho he doesn'...
... exists, or ever did. O.k., here's an atheistic reading of.... The sufferings Yahweh pours on Job are, to repeat, the quotidian ... is the tyranny of existence, Job's torments try his faith in... good, and the Book of Job spells out the alternatives: affirming ... rising up against life, something Job acknowledges when he wishes for ... Noah's flood does the job neatly. Yahweh is in despair ...
...> The Creator who brings evil upon a blameless, upright man in the Book of Job. -- Moggin The whole Bible is preposterous anyway. It at least implies that God is omnipotent, and ...absurdity and the moral bankruptcy of Yahweh, then, for my money, Noah's flood does the job neatly. Yahweh is in despair at his own creation, so he destroys nearly all of it in...
...creator? The Creator who brings evil upon a blameless, upright man in the Book of Job. -- Moggin The whole Bible is preposterous anyway. It at least implies that God is omnipotent, and virtually... absurdity and the moral bankruptcy of Yahweh, then, for my money, Noah's flood does the job neatly. Yahweh is in despair at his own creation, so he destroys nearly all of it in ...
The Rev Dr. Hugh Jarse NLAHN. <hugh.jarse@heathens.org.uk>: What creator? The Creator who brings evil upon a blameless, upright man in the Book of Job. -- Moggin
... honestly. -- Moggin no need - you've shown stupidity in reading Job theologically - using a dictionary - now in what post-modernism does to any text. You've retreated from the idea of Job saying anything factual - and floated the idea that to express a personal opinion about a fictional story can be a ...
