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Bible In Our Everyday Life
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What is the importance of the Bible in our life? How does learning the importance of the Bible affect our life?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Atheist //The OT I don't like or know well.//
Well that's honest . I can recommend say, the Book of Job, which is not only restricted to Christianity, but used as an important lesson for life by Jews, Muslim's & others too.
It isn't simply 'a story', it emphasises endurance and long-suffering patience portraying manly virtue.
Read by many facing adversity, - there were not many atheists in the trenches, so it was said.
Well that's honest . I can recommend say, the Book of Job, which is not only restricted to Christianity, but used as an important lesson for life by Jews, Muslim's & others too.
It isn't simply 'a story', it emphasises endurance and long-suffering patience portraying manly virtue.
Read by many facing adversity, - there were not many atheists in the trenches, so it was said.
Khandro; I've heard criticism of the 'message' of the book of Job, but I haven't read it, so I can't comment. I'll try to find time to read it and form an opinion. I must say that the idea that it might approve of "endurance and long-suffering patience portraying manly virtue" sounds a bit odd to me. Reminds me of religious people saying that the suffering of the Jews and others was acceptable because it enabled lessons to be learned about the virtue involved in acceptance of pain and yielding to the ineffable wisdom of the creator.
//I can recommend say, the Book of Job, which is not only restricted to Christianity, but used as an important lesson for life by Jews, Muslim's & others too.
It isn't simply 'a story', it emphasises endurance and long-suffering patience portraying manly virtue.//
It also emphasizes a 'Satan' ...who was supposedly thrown out of heaven and awaiting eternal doom...presenting himself before God as though they were eternal buddies.
(As naomi has often pointed out)
Satan (in this story) cannot be an enemy of God.
(He's been thrown out of Heaven, remember, and yet presents himself in Heaven and has a friendly chat with God)
God agrees to let Satan afflict Job in all sorts of ways, ending up with him losing his family.
He then blesses Job with more sons and daughters.
Can anyone tell me HOW having more children can make up for the ones that have died??
For a wager between God and an angel that sacked him off??
It isn't simply 'a story', it emphasises endurance and long-suffering patience portraying manly virtue.//
It also emphasizes a 'Satan' ...who was supposedly thrown out of heaven and awaiting eternal doom...presenting himself before God as though they were eternal buddies.
(As naomi has often pointed out)
Satan (in this story) cannot be an enemy of God.
(He's been thrown out of Heaven, remember, and yet presents himself in Heaven and has a friendly chat with God)
God agrees to let Satan afflict Job in all sorts of ways, ending up with him losing his family.
He then blesses Job with more sons and daughters.
Can anyone tell me HOW having more children can make up for the ones that have died??
For a wager between God and an angel that sacked him off??
Atheist //The quote about atheists and trenches is simply an assertion made by those who disapprove of atheism. No evidence of it, just a pithy soundbite to support religious beliefs.//
That may be true or not, but then, you've never been in a muddy trench in hourly fear for your life have you? - and before you ask, neither have I, but I have been so in other circumstances.
Do read Job, it's freely available online. :0)
That may be true or not, but then, you've never been in a muddy trench in hourly fear for your life have you? - and before you ask, neither have I, but I have been so in other circumstances.
Do read Job, it's freely available online. :0)
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