02-13-2008, 02:33 AM | #21 | |
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As my teacher put it, it's as if there are two accounts of the story. Our Western linear minds have a hard time with that. He wore a blue shirt to church one week. |
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Why don't you ask your Old Testament teacher what he thinks of God killing a man because of coitus interruptus (spilling his man gravy) because he didn't want to impregnate his new wife (his brother's widow)? |
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It is easy to pick on Job with some funny one liners but I really think many people miss the point of the book. Job taken as a whole provides very important theological balance to other books in the Old Testament. It provides particular balance to the "Wisdom Literature" in the OT such as proverbs where Retributive Theology is the primary theological viewpoint. Job provides a remarkable counterpoint to the "Wisdom Literature." People get hung up on the fact that the narrative is told in a very stylistic way. But the highly stylized narrative adds to the punch of the dramatic theological counterpunch. Job is a masterpiece.
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Genesis 38:6-10
The husband of Tamar died. Judah told Onan that he had to marry Tamar, his brother's widow. Onan "wasted his seed on the ground." God killed Onan because God was displeased. Onanism=the withdrawal method. Highly unreliable. I don't recommend it. One of my best friends and his wife had an unplanned pregnancy because of this. |
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Yes, many people have hypothesized that there is editorial activity combining multiple accounts together and we are seeing evidence of editorial seams in those verses.
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1) Written by ancient non-prophets who were describing and interpreting awful events AND/OR 2) Pure mythology that speaks to every human being's desire to understand why life tends to suck from time to time But when people ponder what these stories tell us about God, then I tune out, because these stories aren't about God. I think these stories are about people writing stories. They might be entertaining stories, and they might tell us something about humanity, and they might even be beautifully written...but that doesn't make me embrace them as theology. I can't discuss this crap with Lingo because he's too far gone. |
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