Friday, May 23, 2008

Job's a god un

Halleujah. Job is a parable!!
Thrid century Rabbi Resh Lakish has suggested that the Biblical character Job, ''Never was, and never existed''.
Oh the freedom.
It frees me anyway from the problems that Job gives us in terms of God's morality. I for one want no part in a God who wagers a man's life with Satan himself.
If the book of a Job is a parable then, these details may be overlooked and the truths of the book of Job become clearer.
But it also offers me a head ache. In refuting the negative aspects of God in Job, we must surely refute the positive ones too, that is God's response in Job 38 and 39, possibly one of the greatest portions of literature ever written.
I guess what we might be able to cling to is at least Job 38 and 39 seem to fit with what we know about God in other bits of the Bible, whereas God placing bets with Satan....isn't.

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