Job 29-31

[wolfpurplemoon]

Job has decided that he deserves his punishment, and his rather gruesome afflictions, because he may have at some point not been quite nice enough to someone he was superior to.

And this is the best thing I've heard so far in Job: "The words of Job are ended." Does that mean something will actually happen now?

Comments

[morgian-le-faye.livejournal.com]

I don't see how living in a way unpleasing to a deity would make my parents unhappy. And what is unpleasing to your deity? Every single person interprets the bible s differently that what you see as unpleasing and what one of my equally devout friends sees displeasing are completely different. So that problem does not help. Secondly, if god had wanted to heal this marriage, he wouldn't have allowed it to happen in the first place. My dad happens to be a sociopath. That is not something that cn magically be fixed and no drugs can fix it. The marriage was doomed from the start, but my mother didn't know that because she did not know my dad was a sociopath. tI'm not saying my dad is a bad person (and anyone who thinks that all sociopaths are bad people are completely wrong. Sociopath just means they cannot feel emotion). So to tell me that a deity can magically fix this is just insulting to my intelligence.

And yes, there is a certain responsibility and self-sacrifice to love. However, to sacrifice one's entire happiness because one's husband cannot and never will love her is too much of a sacrifice. To me, that sacrifice is more immoral than staying in the marriage because ultimately, it is a lack of respect to oneself. We cannot respect others until we learn to respect ourselves.

Regarding black and white, clearly your ideas of what's right and wrong are different from mine. They are also different from many of my devout Christian friends who do believe in the bible and that the bible is the word of god. This is not something we will ever agree on, and you can continue to argue it, but at this point, isn't it better to just let sleeping dogs lie? I am responding mainly because I thought I should make it clear that not all marriages are as fixable as you seem to think they are. However, I think I shall bow out now as we will continue to run circles and we will never see the other as correct.

I will say, I am confused as to why you continue to post on wolfpurplemoon's blog. As a guest here, I strive to be respectful. However, I am seeing less respect and more pushing of beliefs. I have yet to see anything constructive from your posts. They seem to bring up a point of how we don't read with a proper view and then attack some idea you don't like and attribute it to atheists. I find it sad that you find a need to preach to a group of people who do not believe your arguments and never will believe your arguments unless you come up with something we've never heard before. As it is, we could play a game of bingo with you responses.

I don't mean to come across as rude, and I apologize to wolfpurplemoon for all that I'm writing and saying on her blog. However, I think you really need to address if you are doing any good here.