On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:58:15 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > Sam,
> You didn't read *all* I said ... > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 19:33:17 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: >> On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:04:44 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > <snip> >>> However, none of the arguments the "Young Earthers" come up with seem to >>> offer any reason why a Creator would pull that sort of BS on creatures >>> S/He loved and made guardians of said Earth.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > ^^^^^ > One who loves you does not tease, does not set tests of faith with the > hope that you should fail. Yep, I agree. > As far as Job goes, he asked for it ... He was bound and determined to > be "holier than just about anyone" and if I were god he would have > pixxed me off too! Job was not a hyocrite. He was a typical and average good guy and strongly dedicated to his family and in being steadfast to moral principle. He was inclined to be good and to have a perfectly natural disposition to live an upright and virtuous life. The story of Job is the story about how some very bad things can happen to good people and about how good people can deal with what happens. If Job were a hypocrite he would have turned out to be a loser even in the things that matter the most to him. BTW, as a point of trivia, and according to what I have been told by some biblical scholars, the story of Job is the story in the Bible for which we have the most ancient extant manuscripts. > As for Abraham and Isaac, I'm surprised the ram > showed up because that particular IQ test was badly flunked. The deal wasn't set up as an IQ test. It was a test of faith, not a test of IQ. I don't know what would have happened if that ram hadn't come wandering into the thicket and gotten entangled in it by his horns just in the nick of time. <snip> Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/
