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- From: drake+@cs.cmu.edu (Drake)
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- Subject: Re: In Job, Lucifer was proved right!
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 06:40:10 GMT
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- turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:
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- >In the story, after his last tribulation, when Job is suffering
- >disease, loss of loved ones, and poverty, he curses and rebukes
- >Yahweh.
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- Curses, I don't think so. Rebukes, yes, he does do that, doesn't he?
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- >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.
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- Huh? Lucifer is never even *mentioned* is the book. Satan is, but he
- doesn't show up after the end of the first chapter, and Job doesn't
- start to bitch about God until chapters 29-31.
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