God was not in the book of Job, Job does not belong in the Bible

[FreeThinkingChristian]

No one know who wrotte it. It's older than all the books in the Bible.

Nowhere else in the Bible does God make deal with the devil at the expense of good people.

If God let the devil kill my kids as a test, I'd expect Him to resurrect my kids instead of letting me have more kids. that would happen anyway.

God isn't the trustworthy god of the rest of the Bible in that book. It stinks of man.

Also it was re-written in 700 BC. It originally ended with Job dying when he said he was undone. The end, where he gets everything back, was added in aramaic.

[Spencer T.]

Where did you find that last part about it being re-written in Aramaic in 700 B.C.?

[FreeThinkingChristian]

I learned this in college in Western Civ at Indiana University. It wasn't re-written. It had a happy ending tacked onto the end of it. The first part was unchanged.

[Bostuc]

It is really??

[skeptic griggsy]

Yes,indeed that Yahweh should not have let His friend Satan have killed the children.That is left out of commentary generally. But Yahweh in Isaiah said He was the creator of good and evil.Look at His murdering all those people in the Deluge and ordering all that genocide.He woudl be in an asylum for the criminally insane!

This post has been edited by skeptic griggsy on April 06, 2007 10:16 am

[skeptic griggsy]

I favor Dawkin's description of Yahweh! Apologists should accept that the Bible is full of errors,contradictions and poor morality. Archeoloists and historians have found that it is ahistorical.
One rationalizes Yahweh's behaviour. The above Christian makes a good point about the book of Job , but it applies to all the books of the Bible.
See what Bishop John Shelby Spong has to say about the book of books!

[skeptic griggsy]

Rather than embracing the irrationality of the parable of Job that alll is for good -Panglossian - one should see that the imperfectons and evils here show at most a limited god : one should follow Robert Price's suggestions in 'The Reason-Driven Life" and what Albert Ellis has to say in his many works.
We should not bow down before omniptence: might does not make right unlike waht Yahweh in Job brays1
We know of the foundations : we need no ultimate mystery as the ultimate explanation!
The presumption of naturalism holds; the presumption of faith is irrational!