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Dialogue Between Satan and God in the Book of Job

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Fosdick 
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12-17-2006 12:17 PM 		Reply to: Message 3 by Chiroptera
12-17-2006 9:34 AM

Chiropter, you wrote:
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I always found Job, with God and Satan trash talking, to be interesting. It seems to me that
(1) Job is a moral fairy tale, not meant to be taken literally,
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(2) Job is an old story, from a time with a more anthropomorphic God, before the Hellenic transcendental God became de rigeur, or
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(3) both, an older concept used to make a contemporary (to the writer) story.
I agree with you. But there is a fourth possibility: Job actually was tortured that way, in some Hebraic context, and thus the Bible provides Absolute Truth about the what God really stands for”covert terrorism with a monstrous appetite for souls.
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”Hoot Mon
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Fosdick 
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12-17-2006 1:48 PM

"...Oh, you tireless watcher! What have I done to you?
That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true?"
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(from Joni Mitchell's "The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song)"
  
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