From 144f1be4ffaa18240455bba61d0dfd9b56a9badd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madison Scott-Clary Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 22:05:07 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update from sparkleup --- writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/1-framing-devices.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/1-framing-devices.md b/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/1-framing-devices.md index 48195e1c..423dd1c7 100644 --- a/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/1-framing-devices.md +++ b/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/1-framing-devices.md @@ -54,7 +54,9 @@ Job having a new family (some of them even have names!) and twice the wealth bef This centers God's response as the sticking point. He spends four chapters responding to Job the conversations that have taken place between him and his friends. While these conversations make up the majority of the book,[^1conversations] His response solely in the context of this framing device (which, we must remember, is an older folktale which has been re-cast as a framing device for the rest of the book) gives us a particular flavor of 'God works in mysterious ways' with more nuance than one commonly finds when that phrase is employed. -God appears to Job and his friends and expounds on the fact that none of them do --- nor indeed can --- possibly understand the ways in which he works. They're not just mysterious, they're vast and incomprehensible. If He is outside time, then, from our point of view, those ways stretch both forwards and back. If they envelop and pervade all things tangible and intangible, then they are +God appears to Job and his friends and expounds on the fact that none of them do --- nor indeed can --- possibly understand the ways in which he works. They're not just mysterious, they're vast and incomprehensible. This makes the most sense in a panentheistic view. If He is outside time, then, from our point of view, those ways stretch both forwards and back. If they envelop and pervade all things tangible and intangible, then they are beyond even our causal domain. + +Even in a grounded, Jahwist, immediate and physical view of God (He is, after all, there in the form of a whirlwind), his entrance comes off as bizarre and unnerving. He passes through the physical plane as the Sphere does through the Square's planar existence. Even in so physical a form, He proves His very incomprehensibility. [^1revelation]: I don't care about the book itself, I should add. There is much that falls out of its existence that I care very much about, of course. I care about the way it is used, and while I care about the way that Job is used, I also care about the text, which is not something I can say about Revelation.