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- From: casivils@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (craig sivils)
- Subject: Re: Job and Satan
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- References: <1992Dec31.190443.18046@netcom.com>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 20:42:08 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In <1992Dec31.190443.18046@netcom.com> madhaus@netcom.com (Maddi Hausmann) writes:
-
- >I remember hearing the Job story as a child, and asking how having
- >new children replaced the ones that were killed. Isn't that tale
- >a frightening one to tell a child? "You can be replaced." The story
- >was clearly written from a "women and kids are property" mentality,
- >which is why it so sticks in our craw today. And I believe this
- >is a good illustration that the Bible was written by people who
- >were thoroughly limited in their worldview, not by an omniscient
- >entity who would have forseen the changes in people's views on
- >personhood, rights, and property.
-
- If we are going to hold up logic as the bulkhead of the attack on how
- the bible doesn't make sense and God can't exists, then lets look at the whole
- story.
-
- It says that God gave Job multiple times what he had before, yet he has the
- same number of wives and children. Either
-
- 1. God shorted Job
-
- 2. The wives and children were not replacements but additions, this
- point would beg the question of what happened to the original family.
- (I know they were killed, but for a Christian, that does not equate
- to lost)
-
- So once again there is a stalemate. I will beleive that Jobs family followed
- God, went to heaven and Job ended up with twice the family he had before.
-
- You will beleive that God shorted Job. You may beleive as you wish, but please
- watch the quantum leaps of logic.
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- Craig
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