Fillerguy
Veteran
How so? His opinions and faith in God never changed. Oh and that piece on stripping ourselves of material things
In what theological or metaphysical schools of thought are Humans defined as simply material things.
What Do Yall Think About The Story Of Job In The Bible
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In what theological or metaphysical schools of thought are Humans defined as simply material things.
How so? His opinions and faith in God never changed. Oh and that piece on stripping ourselves of material things
actually it is stripping away of our desires for material things or specifically a life being dictated by the desire for material things
God was kinda an a$$hole for this. Destroying an man's life to prove a point to the ultimate troll. Just seems like a dikk move to me.
JoelB
All Praise To TMH
Story just displays the ego of GOD. Human life is pretty much worthless in the eyes of your creator...kind of like a kid with an Ant Farm.
Let me kill off your fam and hit you with a debilitating disease just for the fukk of it..er...I mean to test your faith (even though I'm omnipotent and already knew
)
but dont be upset i merked ya family, I'll "bless" u by giving u some more....because family members are just replaceable like that
The End
If thats the personality of GOD, I see why Lucifer was like
and tried to dip with 1/3 of the angels.
Let me kill off your fam and hit you with a debilitating disease just for the fukk of it..er...I mean to test your faith (even though I'm omnipotent and already knew
)but dont be upset i merked ya family, I'll "bless" u by giving u some more....because family members are just replaceable like that
The End
If thats the personality of GOD, I see why Lucifer was like
and tried to dip with 1/3 of the angels.....nobody can be that stupid to not see the point of job's story is the symbolism, u can replace his family with anything one can hold dear(family, career, material things), the point is so the lord giveth, he can taketh away, so u gotta take da god wit da bad & keep pushin...nikkas on dat fuk god shyt probably be da 1st ones losin they principles & sellin they soul when shyt hits da fan...u can pply this story to anybody that every reached some level of success, they will say there were times it felt like their world was crashin down & they asked these same questions & might have lost faith not jus in god but in themselves but the trials they went thru made them the people they are today...
There is no indication that he was much stronger spiritually. He just helplessly accepts his condition and realizes his impotence in dealing with a celestial bully like God.
Huellz Santana
Shocking
i didn't like that story at all. we went over it in bible study and they tried to rationalize it
at the end of the day tho, i realized that I'm just human and there's no way i can comprehend God's plan or intentions/ nor question them
but at least im real. as a HUMAN BEING, all that stuff was uncalled for. anybody else that's a human trying to justify it doesn't really know what they're talking about.
all this "well God was trying to show.." or "well God meant..." is
to me.
just be honest like me and say "I have no idea why God did all that, but who am I to question Him?"
at the end of the day tho, i realized that I'm just human and there's no way i can comprehend God's plan or intentions/ nor question them
but at least im real. as a HUMAN BEING, all that stuff was uncalled for. anybody else that's a human trying to justify it doesn't really know what they're talking about.
all this "well God was trying to show.." or "well God meant..." is
to me.just be honest like me and say "I have no idea why God did all that, but who am I to question Him?"
JoelB
All Praise To TMH
Julius Skrrvin
I be winkin' through the scope
As an outsider to Abrahamic religions, this story has always horrified me. In other religions Gods are capricious, and often play with the fates of mortals.... But this story always struck me as awful because of how God and his supposed arch enemy did that to Job on what essentially amounts to a whim. I suppose the story exists to show the power of belief, but how can you be inspired by such a blatantly unethical God? Just because he's God?
I dont get it
I dont get it
WhiteDawg3000
Pro
As an outsider to Abrahamic religions, this story has always horrified me. In other religions Gods are capricious, and often play with the fates of mortals.... But this story always struck me as awful because of how God and his supposed arch enemy did that to Job on what essentially amounts to a whim. I suppose the story exists to show the power of belief, but how can you be inspired by such a blatantly unethical God? Just because he's God?
I dont get it
I hear what ur saying
just curious, what's ur ethnic/religious background?
Julius Skrrvin
I be winkin' through the scope
Indian, raised Hindu. My parents are essentially atheists though, and when we were old enough admitted as such and basically let their kids do what they want. My sister stayed a hindu, my older brother believes in god on his own terms, and im basically an agnostic (but not antireligious).
I didnt stutter....u can write in english so I can assume u can read in english too...use ur reading comprehension skills..if a man that didnt value his family & was stuck on material possessions lost his fam & his house in a fire, he wouldnt give a fuk bout da fam but would be tramatized about losing all his possessions & go thru the same stages of grief...like I said before...u can replace a guy losing his family with anything, like a star athlete tearin his acl in high school, its just an example...I can respect u as a man, but have enough respect for ur self to understand what you're talking about before you speak
JoelB
All Praise To TMH
How the fukk do you replace a human life? If I crashed your car, I could replace it with the same make and model.
If you have a daughter, and i end her life, but allow u to have another daughter...the first daughter was NOT replaced. She isnt an inanimate object that can be replicated. Once your children are gone, they are GONE.
and this was all done for what? To have a sparring match with Satan? A being that is inferior to you?
You are better off just saying "GOD works in mysterious ways" than saying silly shyt like that.
If you have a daughter, and i end her life, but allow u to have another daughter...the first daughter was NOT replaced. She isnt an inanimate object that can be replicated. Once your children are gone, they are GONE.
and this was all done for what? To have a sparring match with Satan? A being that is inferior to you?
You are better off just saying "GOD works in mysterious ways" than saying silly shyt like that.
dr. pill biden
All Star
It's obvious symbolism. In person's life, God WILL take your loved ones away from you. You WILL get sick. You WILL lose a job. Not all at once, but this is a story here and you have to take artistic liberties to get a point across. But, in all these things happening to you, sequentially or not, maintaining your faith in God is what will help you suffer these inevetibilities easier.
The mind that is still trapped in it's silly human frivolities will read this parable see it as God being evil, or egotistical, or whatever. It's like a child reading Animal Farm and he thinks it's just about some animals on the farm.
The mind that is still trapped in it's silly human frivolities will read this parable see it as God being evil, or egotistical, or whatever. It's like a child reading Animal Farm and he thinks it's just about some animals on the farm.
JoelB
All Praise To TMH
It may be obviously symbolic to you, but the vast majority of fundamentalist christians take this story, as well as the other books of the Bible as literal instructions.
Same goes with Adam & Eve and the talking snake, same goes for Lot's wife turning into a pillar of salt when they were instructed to leave Sodom & Gomorra, same goes for Jonah living in a whale, or in Matthew where he describes tombs being opened and dead people being raised up and chillin with friends and family.
"In the beginning was the word, and the word was with GOD and the word was GOD"
Is the bible the voice of GOD in written form, or is it simply Aesops Fable, created to just simply teach u a lesson? Christians cant seem to agree on what it is.