It's like that mafia game a couple of months ago in which I refused to post and so people refused to vote me out until it was too late and I ended up winning as mafia. They're in antispew mode.
*Lot's wife. C'mon Lex get it right
Funny you point that out. And I agree. Don't worry, we're getting to that... just waiting on the response.
I'm sure we're both sad that the order of the universe and life are not designed as we wish. General trend seems to be it gets worse and worse over time until you check out. God, in the biblical sense you go over, is going to wreck and destroy and melt every single person and every single thing regardless of righteousness. That general truth is unavoidable with or without your spiritual tormentor. All there is left is to decide how to address that reality and what to do with it. Job does redeem God as God redeems his suffering, making something decent out what was going to be pain regardless.
Of course it was on her. God made that **** abundantly clear.
Ultimately, what Job teaches is that we are all pawns in the bigger game. You can have faith, or not and either way God doesn't owe you ****.
Every now and then there's a new minister trying on their uncomfortable Methodist fire and brimstone "God could destroy you," our most recent one said. All I was sitting there thinking was "Could? Will." Job isn't supposed to be feel good. Job explains how the world works to the righteous man. The call for action for Godly morality, if you add it on, comes with the New, not the Old. Despite the fact that we wind up with the world we have, not the world we would want.
Shaking hands without gloves in a crowded place is very risky, you never know how many other hands have already shook that hand before the moment.
That does not work/make sense. As has already been pointed out. The simple, easy, obvious and correct way to express that is for Republicans/Conservatives to say, "Republicans are bad. Democrats are worse." They are well aware of this. So there is a reason that they instead choose to say "both sides are bad" and it is because they want to express equal badness, for all the reasons that I and others have laid out. You're blaming WW2 and the Civil War on Biden???This is the 2020 election thread. Please state the wars that you're blaming on Biden.
OK so you're going with the Iraq War, fine. The American deaths in that war are around 4,000, so even putting aside that Biden was never President during that war, Trump's 197,000 coronavirus American death toll clearly dwarfs anything you can blame on Biden. Even if you add Libya, Syria and Yemen their American death tolls are much smaller by comparison, so it doesn't move the needle. Trump is way worse.
Again... thanks for pointing that out Patine.
Dude, your country is just the northern end of South (and soon to be majority Latin) America now. It hasn't sunk in yet, but that's what it is, sadly.
Yeah, that God guy definitely a sociopath.*Lot's wife. C'mon Lex get it right
And it wasn't for "looking back" it was, in a general sense, for "disobedience" because she was specifically instructed by the angels to run away from the city and not to look back. But more specifically and perhaps more esoterically, it was because they were fleeing a city of naughtiness and wickedness, where people were doing evil things like having sex with whoever the eff they wanted, being homosexual, gambling, drinking and basically having too much fun... and also failing to worship the one true god blessed be his holy name...
But she, devil-woman that she was... didn't really want to leave, she, unbelievable and incredible as it sounds, had the temerity to actually regret having to leave her home and belongings in that wretched hive of scum and villainy... so in a moment of regret and despair, she looked back to see her home burning to the ground... which demonstrated that she wasn't fully faithful, her heart wasn't fully invested in what she was ordered to do. So as punishment, god killed her, and that right soon.
Now Job's wife... she was the one who encouraged her husband to "curse God and die" as a result of the heavenly father having elected to allow Satan to slaughter Job's entire family, except his wife, including killing all 10 of his children (along with all his vast herds of assorted livestock) and afflict Job with a horrific disease that caused boils and blisters all over his body... All over a bet that the almighty had with Satan, that Job only worshiped god and was a good servant, due to him being rich and blessed.
This is the point where in response to his wife's admonition, Job delivers his famous line "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away... let the name of the Lord continue to be blessed". So then a reward for his faith, Job was given a bunch of new children and livestock and such, so I'm sure that totally made him get over the dead ones. No harm, no foul.
So hopefully that clears things up, demonstrates your error... and totes redeems god.
