The Debate Is Up!

[Super Cow]

Chrawnus. When I say Job didn't lose his children, I mean that they are still there and he will see them in the resurrection. He did not get twenty kids in the end. He got ten more. Ten + ten.

I've actually had a problem with the book of Job for some time. It seems to be written more as an instructional parable than a historical event.

[JonathanL]

yep. Dan makes the mistake that if something is a metaphor or hyperbole than everything is. No, it's not. And you can tell by the context. How does Dan get through the day if he thinks that if someone uses hyperbole then everything they say is hyperbole? Nick answered him well on this with his comment about being so hungry he could eat a horse. When you bother to study the culture of the ANE, you will learn many of the idioms used during that time and manners of speaking. Dan just tries to interpret everything form a modern perspective and takes everything literally merely to dismiss it.

You can pretty much tell that he hasn't learned a thing since his preacher days. If the way he interpret the Bible today is the way he interpreted it when he was a preacher I feel (and fear) for the people who had to be subjected to his sermons. I just hope God was (and is) gracious enough not to let his hearers be too affected too adversely by his faulty and nonsensical hermeneutics.

At least in this case Nick was there to at least temper his foolishness to some degree.

[tabibito]

I've actually had a problem with the book of Job for some time. It seems to be written more as an instructional parable than a historical event.

As Asimov said - (paraphrasing) it doesn't really matter. There have been enough people in history who have suffered enough to qualify as Jobs.

[One Bad Pig]

Chrawnus. When....

You do this just to annoy me, don't you?

[JonathanL]

One Bad Pig. What other reason could there be?

[Cow Poke]

Chranus. Is it true that you use Selsun Blue shampoo?

[tabibito]

One Bad Pig. What other reason could there be?

None so thoroughly rewarding ...








or valid, come to that.

[Cow Poke]

Chranus. Is it true that you use Selsun Blue shampoo?

rats - CHRAWNUS, not Chranus.

[JonathanL]

Cow Puke. No, that is factually incorrect. I actually use:


anti-dandruff shampoo


apple fresh
for a clean fresh scent

[JonathanL]

Cow Punk. You are forgiven for spelling my username incorrectly.

[rogue06]

Cow Puke. No, that is factually incorrect. I actually use:


anti-dandruff shampoo


apple fresh
for a clean fresh scent

I too woulda bet you used

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[firstfloor]