Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxn!pez From: pez@pyuxn.UUCP (Paul Zimmerman) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: Re: The Book of Job and the value of human life Message-ID: <349@pyuxn.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 08:48:38 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxn.349 Posted: Tue Sep 17 08:48:38 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 18-Sep-85 04:22:13 EDT References: <2225CJC@psuvm> <1553@umcp-cs.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Piscataway, N.J. Lines: 29 First, may I thank Carolyn Clark for some truly excellent articles on the Book of Job and other examples of the evils of God. Charley Wingate claimed that her retort ``doesn't even begin to scratch the surface,'' but it seems to me that it hits the nail right on the head. And it addresses issues Charley and his fellow God whorshipers seem to ignore. Charley's ultimate defense of God is this: ``the morality of God's actions is unquestionable by man.'' Certainly this is an example of how God has convinced people like Charley that whatever His actions, whatever He does to them, He is ``good.'' Blindly accepting an idea like that is frightening, isn't it? Yet people do this in the name of the evil Damager-God all the time. Isn't it strange that it is claimed that the Book of Job is an exception to the other books in the Bible? Charley says that, unlike the other books of the Bible, THIS one should not be taken literally. Why the sudden exception to the rule? It seems that the desire to claim that this one book is an exception to the rule, the rule of the Bible as inerrant factual historical word of God, is based on a wish to justify God's evil. Charley seems to be saying ``In this case, don't believe that these really represent real things God did, because we are unable to justify them after the fact as well we have done for other actions.'' Charley, why would you seek to go out of your way to justify the evil of the Damager-God in such a distorted way? Be well, -- Paul Zimmerman - AT&T Bell Laboratories pyuxn!pez