"Fun with the book of Job"
I don't think this will catch on like Fun with Dick and Jane.
The book of Job is a real downer. Yeah, the parties are all fun until everyone dies and shit.
Fun with the book of Job
by sowhatnow 16 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Village Idiot
sowhatnow:
"lol, so nobody wants to touch the dragon thing? or that God for 'no reason' let satan torture Job?"
God did have a (wretched) reason to allow Satan to torture and devastate Job. Satan challenged him indicating that Job would not hold faithful if his wealth was gone. God was trying to prove that he would have remained faithful no matter what. It was an ego trip for God.
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Island Man
"It was an ego trip for God."
Exactly! And poor Job is used and abused as God's pawn to make his point.
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cappytan
JW would say:
But you guys!!!! Jehovah doesn't let us be tempted or tried beyond what we can bear! He knew Job could handle it!
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eyeuse2badub
If jehober loved job soooo much, why didn't jehober resurrect job's originalfamily that was killed in the wind storm? Why did job get a new family instead of the one he had and loved before that "bad boy" Satan took them away?
fairy tales all sound the same somehow.
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
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sowhatnow
oh yea that old 'not be tempted beyond what you can bear' logic,
i hate that, its simply not true! how many people are on anti depressants because they cant BEAR LIFE ANYMORE! when you pray to die, its beyond what you can bear!
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Vidiot
eyeuse2badub - "Why did job get a new family instead of the one he had and loved before that "bad boy" Satan took them away?"
'Cause back in Biblical times, a family was a man's property first and foremost (and an emotional tie a distant second), so the point of the story would have been that Job would have been owed the equivalent property value (though not necessarily the exact same property)...
...plus the mortality rate was insanely high compared to nowadays, so a human life would have been viewed as less intrinsic property value, overall.
(P.S. I am not suggesting that the book of Job is an actual historical account.)