Chapter One, Job and his Family
Jul 18, 2024 19:31:47 GMT -8
Post by The Ninevite on Jul 18, 2024 19:31:47 GMT -8
The Book of Job is a good place to start if you need to smooth out some of the church language that flies around. One notable fact about church attendance is that most of it is a matter of public speaking, and in modern churches, there is often a joke. Tony Campolo and Leo Buscaglia pioneered the church joke, and other sociology and psychology based public speaking evangelists such as James Dobson and Doug Batchelor are famous for it. Family psychologists and televangelists whose main course sermons come after a campfire song and a children's story on the program often kick off with a feel-good anecdote about the funny things children think about Bible Stories, and I know part of it is simply due to the fact of that required Public Speaking class they take their sophomore year. In spite of the fact that church humor is irreverent, a laugh is on the basis of wordplay, and language arts matter quite a bit to theology, which does require logic and involve very heavy doses of poetry as well as music. There is a man in the Old Testament named Job, and if you spell his name with a lower-case j, it is pronounced slightly differently. The Book of Job is either a biography written by an associated scribe, or a third person autobiography. In common with Daniel, who is also the character subject of a longer Old Testament prophetic book, it both details spiritual visions and describes the hero's life and times.
Many members of the American churchgoing public have attended linear evangelistic series and seminars comparing Daniel to Revelation as prophecy, this is Job, a book for the rest of us to contrast to the Book of Daniel. Both Job and Daniel were overrun and enslaved by the Aliens (Egypt, the Babylonians), but where the record of Daniel focuses on dreams as the driving force of the action, Job describes personal motives of character. A comparison of these two men as people will be much more interesting than a simple comparison of the Screen in the Dream Theater, and we can also simultaneously read the life story of John the Baptist.
"There once was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. The man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from Evil. There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and very may servants; so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east. His sons used to go and hold feasts in one another's houses in turn; and they would send and invite their three sisters to drink with them. And when the feast days had run their course, Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, "It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts." This is what Job always did."
What most people see in Job is that he had property. This is common among Bible readers, that's why Jesus warns us so often in his parables! But Job also had a family, and in his heart, loving them, and knowing wisdom well enough to understand the definition of a fool and to discern one from the wise, he hoped sincerely that his children would not curse God in their hearts and say, "In my heart there is no God." Job was motivated by his regard for posterity in his daily prayers and sacrificing. There are many mystically inclined people today who read the Bible for mental health and stability, and fans of Napoleon Hill and his followers since the 1800s often search the scriptures daily for inspiration on how to get rich. It is a well-known fact that the story of Abraham, Jacob, Esau, Laben, Leah, and Rachel contains both the agricultural and spiritual knowledge about this important subject! It is also known that insurgency was practiced against Job, who had a myriad of servants. Labor sabotage and industrial espionage, like heard immunity from coronavirus, both rely very heavily and possibly entirely on massive waves of population motions, together with equitable education stipulations in shop classes especially, where new people can go into manufacturing plants or join construction crews for new development projects and after having mixed with the machines and blended in with the workers, come out with both resume portfolio and validated paystubs.
Job prayed for his children on the High Holy Days in case they were fools. This fact is pertinent with relevance to education, as both parents and teachers know that education is received pedagogy. If you teach your children or someone else's children something that you are certain you know, like how to recite the Lord's Prayer and Shepard's Psalm or how to preform and check all four numerical operations, that's pedagogy. But no matter how smart you are, you can't teach a member of the class to silently affirm in his heart that there is no God, while playing football at recess, making colors turn in the Chemistry Lab, or drafting machine parts in shop. Job as a leader both celebrated the memorial feasts with all of his family on the appointed days, and made personal sacrifices with intercessory prayer to God, in case his children had secretly sinned and cursed God secretly in their hearts.
One day the heavenly beings came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan also came among them. The Lord said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered the Lord, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it." The Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and turns away from evil." Then Satan answered the Lord, "Does Job fear God for nothing? Have you not put a hedge around him and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face." The Lord said to Satan, "Very well, all that he has in in your power, only do not stretch out your hand against him! So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
There are both serious and silly theologians. This is well known for having been the basis of the Eighteenth Amendment, which was inspired by the fact that certain congresspeople were aware that the Civil War was a metaphysical occurrence. Why was the civil war metaphysical, well not because it had spiritual and religious causes, the fact is that death is a metaphysical event. When you transition from life to death, and your soul leaves your body, that is metaphysics. Although not commonly practiced in the United States today, in the late 1800s it was usual for a church which served Last Supper communion to use alcoholic red wine in the ceremony, and in the confusion of the holocaust, some Elmer Gantries who had copies of the Bible began to set up storefront facades and advertise themselves for spiritual services. They had bibibg establishments. now "wine biber" is a technical term, it does have a meaning. What is a wine biber? A wine biber is a professional charlatan who pretends to transubstantiate red communion quality wine into the bold of Christ in an establishment similar to a palmist's shop, a psychic medium's storefront or a crystal gazer's bordello. A wine biber is a blasphemer, and is for religious purposes identical to a prognosticator, which is a fraudulent medium or a fortune teller.
The United States has good intentions, but sometimes congress makes mistakes. As to whether in the starry heavens it was a mistake for congress to try to combat and eliminate wine bibing and blasphemy by making the distillation, sale, and transport of potable alcohol against the law is a deep question. It is both deep and wide, as the children's song says, and its worthy of philosophical study. Was the eighteenth amendment a mistake? Well, Jesus was a carpenter. One example of a mistake a carpenter might make is to use a blunt instrument when a sharp instrument was called for, a hammer instead of a chisel, or a saw instead of a drill. The United States did take it back by repealing the eighteenth amendment.
One day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the eldest brother's house, a messenger came to Job and said, "The Oxen were plowing and the and the donkeys were feeding beside them, and the Sabeans fell on them and carried them off and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; I alone have escaped to tell you." While he was still speaking, another came and said, "The fire of God fell from Heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants with the edge of the sword; I alone have escaped to tell you." While he was still speaking, another came and said, "The Chaldeans formed three columns, made a raid on the camels and carried them off, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; I alone have escaped to tell you." While he was still speaking, another came and said, "Your sons were eating and drinking wine in the elder brother's house, and suddenly a great wind came across the desert, struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead; I alone have escaped to tell you." Then Job arose, tore his robe, shaved his head, and fell on the ground and worshipped. He said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord." In all this God did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing."
What does chapter one of Job say? First, it says that a part of faith in God is to both pray and offer sacrifices, which are set out in Deuteronomy, for close people who might not be religious with you. This citation is part of the anti-divorce rhetoric in legal argumentation. Job presupposes that even if your spouse (women also sacrifice from their own possessions) or children might only be going through church motions like a pack or ravening Democrats in an agenda filled back room, sober and serious prayer will actually mitigate the trouble, and sacrifice will ameliorate your home atmosphere, granting real world community peace. With all of your discipline, add the real love of God. It also states, in contravention of both the Russellites theology and commonly taught generalized anti liberal pablum, that God himself is nowhere on trial in the letter of the Biblical Cannon. If you began to question God yourself because of the alleged agreement here between him and the devil, you will need to begin to research other passages of cursing reported in the Bible, for example, Cain, Ham, Ballam, and some Psalms, also Revelation. God has not been cursed by Job and blamed for Job's trials by Job.
Many members of the American churchgoing public have attended linear evangelistic series and seminars comparing Daniel to Revelation as prophecy, this is Job, a book for the rest of us to contrast to the Book of Daniel. Both Job and Daniel were overrun and enslaved by the Aliens (Egypt, the Babylonians), but where the record of Daniel focuses on dreams as the driving force of the action, Job describes personal motives of character. A comparison of these two men as people will be much more interesting than a simple comparison of the Screen in the Dream Theater, and we can also simultaneously read the life story of John the Baptist.
"There once was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. The man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from Evil. There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and very may servants; so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east. His sons used to go and hold feasts in one another's houses in turn; and they would send and invite their three sisters to drink with them. And when the feast days had run their course, Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, "It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts." This is what Job always did."
What most people see in Job is that he had property. This is common among Bible readers, that's why Jesus warns us so often in his parables! But Job also had a family, and in his heart, loving them, and knowing wisdom well enough to understand the definition of a fool and to discern one from the wise, he hoped sincerely that his children would not curse God in their hearts and say, "In my heart there is no God." Job was motivated by his regard for posterity in his daily prayers and sacrificing. There are many mystically inclined people today who read the Bible for mental health and stability, and fans of Napoleon Hill and his followers since the 1800s often search the scriptures daily for inspiration on how to get rich. It is a well-known fact that the story of Abraham, Jacob, Esau, Laben, Leah, and Rachel contains both the agricultural and spiritual knowledge about this important subject! It is also known that insurgency was practiced against Job, who had a myriad of servants. Labor sabotage and industrial espionage, like heard immunity from coronavirus, both rely very heavily and possibly entirely on massive waves of population motions, together with equitable education stipulations in shop classes especially, where new people can go into manufacturing plants or join construction crews for new development projects and after having mixed with the machines and blended in with the workers, come out with both resume portfolio and validated paystubs.
Job prayed for his children on the High Holy Days in case they were fools. This fact is pertinent with relevance to education, as both parents and teachers know that education is received pedagogy. If you teach your children or someone else's children something that you are certain you know, like how to recite the Lord's Prayer and Shepard's Psalm or how to preform and check all four numerical operations, that's pedagogy. But no matter how smart you are, you can't teach a member of the class to silently affirm in his heart that there is no God, while playing football at recess, making colors turn in the Chemistry Lab, or drafting machine parts in shop. Job as a leader both celebrated the memorial feasts with all of his family on the appointed days, and made personal sacrifices with intercessory prayer to God, in case his children had secretly sinned and cursed God secretly in their hearts.
One day the heavenly beings came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan also came among them. The Lord said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered the Lord, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it." The Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and turns away from evil." Then Satan answered the Lord, "Does Job fear God for nothing? Have you not put a hedge around him and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face." The Lord said to Satan, "Very well, all that he has in in your power, only do not stretch out your hand against him! So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
There are both serious and silly theologians. This is well known for having been the basis of the Eighteenth Amendment, which was inspired by the fact that certain congresspeople were aware that the Civil War was a metaphysical occurrence. Why was the civil war metaphysical, well not because it had spiritual and religious causes, the fact is that death is a metaphysical event. When you transition from life to death, and your soul leaves your body, that is metaphysics. Although not commonly practiced in the United States today, in the late 1800s it was usual for a church which served Last Supper communion to use alcoholic red wine in the ceremony, and in the confusion of the holocaust, some Elmer Gantries who had copies of the Bible began to set up storefront facades and advertise themselves for spiritual services. They had bibibg establishments. now "wine biber" is a technical term, it does have a meaning. What is a wine biber? A wine biber is a professional charlatan who pretends to transubstantiate red communion quality wine into the bold of Christ in an establishment similar to a palmist's shop, a psychic medium's storefront or a crystal gazer's bordello. A wine biber is a blasphemer, and is for religious purposes identical to a prognosticator, which is a fraudulent medium or a fortune teller.
The United States has good intentions, but sometimes congress makes mistakes. As to whether in the starry heavens it was a mistake for congress to try to combat and eliminate wine bibing and blasphemy by making the distillation, sale, and transport of potable alcohol against the law is a deep question. It is both deep and wide, as the children's song says, and its worthy of philosophical study. Was the eighteenth amendment a mistake? Well, Jesus was a carpenter. One example of a mistake a carpenter might make is to use a blunt instrument when a sharp instrument was called for, a hammer instead of a chisel, or a saw instead of a drill. The United States did take it back by repealing the eighteenth amendment.
One day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the eldest brother's house, a messenger came to Job and said, "The Oxen were plowing and the and the donkeys were feeding beside them, and the Sabeans fell on them and carried them off and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; I alone have escaped to tell you." While he was still speaking, another came and said, "The fire of God fell from Heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants with the edge of the sword; I alone have escaped to tell you." While he was still speaking, another came and said, "The Chaldeans formed three columns, made a raid on the camels and carried them off, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; I alone have escaped to tell you." While he was still speaking, another came and said, "Your sons were eating and drinking wine in the elder brother's house, and suddenly a great wind came across the desert, struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead; I alone have escaped to tell you." Then Job arose, tore his robe, shaved his head, and fell on the ground and worshipped. He said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord." In all this God did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing."
What does chapter one of Job say? First, it says that a part of faith in God is to both pray and offer sacrifices, which are set out in Deuteronomy, for close people who might not be religious with you. This citation is part of the anti-divorce rhetoric in legal argumentation. Job presupposes that even if your spouse (women also sacrifice from their own possessions) or children might only be going through church motions like a pack or ravening Democrats in an agenda filled back room, sober and serious prayer will actually mitigate the trouble, and sacrifice will ameliorate your home atmosphere, granting real world community peace. With all of your discipline, add the real love of God. It also states, in contravention of both the Russellites theology and commonly taught generalized anti liberal pablum, that God himself is nowhere on trial in the letter of the Biblical Cannon. If you began to question God yourself because of the alleged agreement here between him and the devil, you will need to begin to research other passages of cursing reported in the Bible, for example, Cain, Ham, Ballam, and some Psalms, also Revelation. God has not been cursed by Job and blamed for Job's trials by Job.