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Anonymous Sun Sep 5 23:45:11 2021 No.18990384 [Reply] [Original]

The book of Job is the most overated book of the bible. Athiest and midwit Christians are mysteriously attracted to it. The ending is fine but what I am annoyed by is the prevalent idea that it

"was a heckin paradigm shift bro, before Job people assumed that if bad things happened to you you were a bad person!"

The book doesn't disprove this at all, God frequently punishes people and cultures in the bible for their sins, and the reason given by the text is retarded if that's what the message is supposed to be? God made a bet with Satan but are the thousands of people suffering terrible misfortune in their lives supposed to assume that God has just been making thousands more bets or something?

Also the actual story is just boring and dragged out, Job has these huge monologues which is just him saying brooooooo i didn't do nuffin whyyy and his friends saying um you probably did though...

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Anonymous Sun Sep 5 23:52:26 2021 No.18990428
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>>18990384
>are the thousands of people suffering terrible misfortune in their lives supposed to assume that God has just been making thousands more bets or something?
Yes.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 5 23:53:44 2021 No.18990433 >>18990384 The book of Exodus is truly the most overrated and it makes Jews seethe when you tell them none of it is real and their history is made up

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 5 23:55:34 2021 No.18990446 midwit atheists like Ecclesiastes tho, it’s the biggest tell they haven’t read shit in the Bible.

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Anonymous Sun Sep 5 23:58:23 2021 No.18990459
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>Faith for Gain is the Beginning of Atheism
As the Book of Job reveals, Job was a pious man who claimed that he would not abandon his faith in God no matter what trials he faced. Then the devil said to God “even pious Job would lose faith in God if he experiences so much unhappiness” and he brings unheard of unhappiness to Job. The devil kills all of Job’s livestock, kills his family, and makes Job ill with disease. Finally Job begins to hate God.

Then God says to Job “do you know how the world began? How I created Man and how I created the world? You don’t. So you have no right to pass judgment on God.” This point is very important.
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In the end, most religions are becoming more centered on the gain of the individual, and people believe in it if it profits them, but don’t if it does not. This is where atheism begins. People feel as if God betrayed them if their faith didn’t bring gains. They think they believed and prayed, but unhappiness fell upon them anyway, and therefore ‘God ignores us’, ‘God is silent’ and ‘God is dead’.

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Anonymous Mon Sep 6 00:04:57 2021 No.18990492

>>18990384
>Don't fret Job, I was merely proving a point to satan, I'm proud of you and will reward you greatly!
I never doubted you lord, does that mean you'll bring my family back from the dead?
>Lol no, they're dead forever and there's no afterlife. But I will give you a bigger and better family!
B-but i miss my old wife, and my kids.
>Bro its fine, your new wife will be way hotter with huge tits. Your new kids will be super cool too.
Oh... thanks. Praise be to God I guess.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 6 00:17:32 2021 No.18990534 >>18990446 true, that's definitely the athiests or cryptoathiests favourite, but they like Bob as well >>18990433 Exodus is a pretty entertaining and has some exciting and le epic moments though

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 6 03:40:07 2021 No.18991162 >>18990384 >The book of Job is the most overated book of the bible. No one, and I mean no one, who knows more than a tiny bit about literature thinks this. The striking poetic originality of Job compared to the rest of the Bible cannot be denied.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 6 11:11:42 2021 No.18992567 >>18990459 Wordy cope to distract from the obvious fact that no gods exist.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 6 11:21:45 2021 No.18992613 >>18990459 I think you've been blinded by Eastern mysticism. The Bible states that God does in fact reward the righteous, and Job was indeed given back ten times what he had lost. There is nothing wrong with expecting a just reward.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 6 11:23:58 2021 No.18992622 >>18992567 Anon, you missed the whole point

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 6 11:24:10 2021 No.18992624 >>18990492 Let's not pretend that we don't prefer certain people over others. If God says she was better for him, then she must have been truly better for him.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 6 11:26:01 2021 No.18992632 >>18992622 That the people who wrote the Bible couldn't come up with a satisfying explanation of why terrible things happen to good people, so they sockpuppeted God as saying "I don't have to explain anything"?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 6 11:27:20 2021 No.18992639 >>18992632 Anon you are going further and further from the point. The hell are you doing

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 6 11:27:48 2021 No.18992641 >>18990384 I like it but God's explanation at the end is rubbish >Bad things happen because, uh, I said so

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 6 11:28:05 2021 No.18992642 >>18992639 I'm making my own point, are you going to engage or just observe?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 6 11:32:09 2021 No.18992661 >>18992567 Dumb nigger

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 6 11:33:16 2021 No.18992665 >>18992661 Whiter than you, cleetus

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 6 11:40:27 2021 No.18992699 What’s the most UNDERrated book in the Bible?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 6 11:41:22 2021 No.18992704 >>18992642 I'm here pointing out you missed the entire point of what that other anon said. You are trying to makeal a point but that point could not be more unrelated to what your originally replied to

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 6 11:42:23 2021 No.18992711 >>18992704 damn, I hate posting from a phone.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 6 11:43:06 2021 No.18992717 >>18992704 You've pointed out I've missed something three times now. Are you ever going to point out what it actually was?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 6 13:32:46 2021 No.18993329 >>18992699 Probably Numbers or one of the really short ones, although Song of Solomon tends to get ignored by most churches for obvious reasons.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 6 14:22:55 2021 No.18993653 >>18990384 Just another person filtered. I will just add that the Protestants are dimwits for dropping the seven books, Tobit and the two Maccabees are some of my favourites.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 6 14:25:08 2021 No.18993667 >>18993329 >Numbers No way. I'd personally say Daniel. And Jonah can't be overrated, it's too good.