RE: Theists i want a quick forum chat with you
July 24, 2015 at 8:25 pm
(This post was last modified: July 24, 2015 at 8:27 pm by Wyrd of Gawd.)
(July 24, 2015 at 11:30 am)dyresand Wrote:
Quote:Job was a victim of a bet.The crap that happened to Job is exactly the same crap that happens to everyone at some point in their lives. All you have to do is read the newspapers or watch the tv news.
Job kept worshiping god even though he kept getting punished to see if he world break and pray to the devil. He didn't break
and he pleaded with god asking he he was doing this horrible acts. The guy lost his wife and children that is more than enough to
completely break someone you wouldn't know what it is like to loose a child and in this case in the story it is a big spit in the face
considering Job never got his original wife or family back afterwards. That should be a big hint considering god of the bible doesn't value
human life at all.
The Job story suggests a way a person might handle such troubles without spinning completely out of control. At one point it seems as if Job might fall into a well of depression and give up on life. He was able to retain his core values and went on to recover and enjoy life once again.
If anyone seriously believes that the God and Satan characters made a bet over Job's faith then he should also believe that the God and Satan characters are real and that they are making bets on everyone in the world.
Everything that happens to people has already happened to millions of others. There was no God and Satan involved in Job's life and they aren't involved in ours, other than as superstitions.
The relevant question is will we be able to carry on in a sane manner once we get doused with a bucket of crap from out of the blue? Most people need some type of religious crutch to make it through the hard times. Some throw up their hands and jump off of a cliff. No one really knows how they will handle hard situations because things are always changing. What might have been true just last week might be completely different today. Consider all of the people who have been murdered and injured in the past month. I'm sure that their survivors felt completely differently before their disasters. Will they be like Job and recover or will they fall into fatal depression?
