Job 40-42

[wolfpurplemoon]

God is describing monsters, fire breathing(?) monsters. But whatever it was it convinces Job that God is great and then God gives him back twice as much stuff as he had at the beginning.

I'm not sure you require faith in a God that pops by for a chat (not blind faith anyway), in fact Job says that it is the fact that he's seen God that has convinced him to take back any of the mean stuff he said.

And so Job lived to 140 and had a great rest of his life, glad it turned out OK in the end...

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[vequenor.livejournal.com]

Ah, that reminds me. Since you were kind enough to tell me a bit about your background, I should probably reciprocate. I was raised by an associate minister of what could be called a highly conservative church. They were kind enough to stop just short of full-fledged fundamentalism, thank goodness. Then I went to college, discovered that several other concepts made much more sense than what I had been raised with, realized that determining the nature of the universe and beyond is a somewhat difficult task, and therefore began to style myself as an agnostic. I know that was probably more detail than you wanted, but I'm a wordy fellow.