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From: CJC@psuvm.BITNET
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: The Book of Job and the value of human life
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Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 00:05:51 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 11 00:05:51 1985
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In article <397@scgvaxd.UUCP> dan@scgvaxd.UUCP (Dan Boskovich)  writes:
     
> In article <2137CJC@psuvm> CJC@psuvm.BITNET writes:
> >    Then read the Book of Job and consider the deaths of Job's seven sons
> >and three daughters and of his very many servants - struck down not for
> >any fault of their's, but merely for a petty show of power.
>
>     You haven't read the book of Job or you would understand the valuable
>     lesson that Job learned from all of it.
     
Is Job's lesson-learning good and sufficient cause for the deaths of so
many people?  Is this your value of human life, that it doesn't matter
how many "common people" die, just as long as one of "God's chosen"
benefits in some fashion?
    It is possible to read an entire book and then concentrate on one
part of it; I have done so often, and I have read the Book of Job.
I don't see that he learned so much: if a "blameless and upright man"
suffers greatly, losing all that he has, and then endures long tirades
from his 'friends', then if he calls in desperation on his God, God
will answer that He has all power and all knowledge and man may not
question Him. *This* is a "valuable lesson" worth the lives of all of
his children?
     
     
     
                                         --Carolyn J. Clark
     
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