Far Side Of the Moon
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Also , the story of job isnt to teach us to annoy God till he fixes what's broken..simply put in this world..anything can happen, no one lives forever..and our family and friends and all the connections we make do mean something to us but things happen. They just do...and when they happen what will you do? I think Job just teaches us to stick close to God in the face of adversity as much as possible. Just my opinion.Parts of the BOOKS (the Bible is a collection of Books, not a single book) were written by prophets who were divinely inspired. God did not write these books, and there is a difference between inspiration and narration. To confuse the two is grave indeed, and has empowered vultures control over masses falsely. Christ himself rebuked this practice on numerous occasions.
Do you know that the word of Heaven before it was translated was "ouranos"? Uranus is the god the sky. Do you know where the name Jupiter comes from? "Deus Pater", or "Sky Father", as well in certain texts & religions. Do you know what "Amen" means? Amen is the Egyptian God of Truth. Have you heard of Aman-Jupiter? Look it up.
Jesus lived during the pagan roman times, and it was stripped later from the texts by using obscure translations.
The book of Job was canonized in a compilation of books by groups of men. This is not a question, this is an historical fact; choosing to believe this does not compromise your faith, but it is supremely blasphemous to claim that the men who compiled the different books into what is known as "The Bible" were God.
I will argue nothing else about this, but I will say that trauma specifically needs to be treated & recognized.
Having faith in God wasn't going to save Job, and this folklore is not something to base your faith on. The society he belonged to was not going to help him. Additionally, neither was God; and after God had murdered innocent women & children it was not until Job was so beat down by the people around him and the excruciating withdrawal of love in life with paralyzing grief that he screamed and argued and fought and annoyed God that God decided to help him.
No. You do not base your faith in God around this story. If anything, the story stands to teach us to NOT have faith in God but rather to annoy Him until He fixes what is broken.
Our spirits, our family, our lives: They mean something. Ripping everything away from someone has been known to even physically cause heart attacks and deform the mind & heart.
What happened to Job was a very poor folklore to illustrate the need to love and heal people when they have lost what they love. There is nothing divine or benign about the tale of "God" in this story. God is not like this.
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