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To: A_perfect_lady
Re: Book of Job

Charming story, isn't it?


It's interesting to me that in public school I was made to read the usual American/English lit, and we sat around and studied the deeper meanings, symbolism, etc.

Yet with the Bible, so many people either reject study outright, study it in a very misguided way, inventing their own meanings.
103 posted on 05/19/2013 2:19:39 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: PieterCasparzen

A good commentary could explain the intellectual side of Job easily enough. There is not a whale of a lot of controversy about that. We are not talking about interpreting specifics of, say, the almost psychedelic book of Revelation. It’s the heart that lags the intellectual understanding, and a wise heart begins to understand that yes, it does lag. It needn’t be embroiled in shame for the lag, in fact that would be generally harmful, but it needs to take the lag into account.


106 posted on 05/19/2013 2:23:54 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: PieterCasparzen

Studying Hebrew stories about their god is particularly useful when juxtaposed against Greek stories about their gods. You start to notice how much their gods resemble one another, and them: jealous, capricious, arbitrary, moody, vengeful, trivial, greedy... and then you realize: Man created God in his own image.


119 posted on 05/19/2013 2:43:55 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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