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- From: charlie@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Charlie Channel)
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- Subject: Re: In Job, Lucifer was proved right!
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 13:38:00 -0800
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- In article <1hspfdINNl1o@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:
- >-*----
- >
- >In the story, after his last tribulation, when Job is suffering
- >disease, loss of loved ones, and poverty, he curses and rebukes
- >Yahweh. Yahweh gets pissed off at Lucifer -- because Lucifer had
- >fooled him or because Lucifer was correct about Job? -- and
- >restores Job to health, familial love, and wealth. Only then
- >does Job once again sing his god's praise.
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- Jumpin' Jehosophat! Never read that revision of Job's history. Job
- 33 seems to indicate he thought he'd been right on time in everything.
- One of the compadres, Elihu, takes the mike and sez YHWH is OK. That
- goes on from chap 34 through 37. YHWH speaks in 38 thru 41. In 42
- Job sez he wasn't thinking about things right. Also, YHWH said he'd
- gotten a bit hot over tres amigos, Eliaphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, for
- putting Job down, saying he was in the mess he was in because he was
- messed up. Job prayed on behalf of those friends and was ultimately
- restored to health, wealth and prosperity. EOF!
-
- >Any of these conclusions are consistent with the tale. But the
- >story does *not* support the typically Christian conclusions:
- >that Lucifer was wrong (in the story, he was right), that Yahweh
- >knows what will happen (in the story, he didn't), and that one
- >should always be loyal to Yahweh (in the story, Job wasn't).
- >
- >Russell
-
- Seriously?
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