zk/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/index.md

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%title The Elevation of Unknown Things

Something like "Seasons" except about growth through the death of the self and how Job fails in that.

  1. Framing devices
  2. Interpolations NB: switched below
  3. Friends and "Friends"
  4. Unknown things (theodicy)
  5. Should all things be known (what if the pals really did solve theodicy)

Rewrite for side-by-side:

  1. Framing devices
    1. Personal
    2. Academic
  2. Interpolations
  3. Friends and "Friends"
  4. Unknown things (theodicy)
  5. Should all things be known (what if the pals really did solve theodicy)

Timeboxed third attempt for academic in footnotes:

Workshop notes

Pals quotes:

  • Job and his quote-unquote friends
  • Narrative/moral/commercial failure (~13 mins)
  • Inverse Pascal's wager (impossible to distinguish between God's wrath and God's indifference) even if you believe, this could still happen (~14mins)
  • (Hunt for Vanessa Zoltan's dad saying "If God is not dead, he is not welcome in my home") (~15mins)

Chesterton quote:

Job puts forward a note of interrogation; God answers with a note of exclamation. Instead of proving to Job that it is an explicable world, He insists that it is a much stranger world than Job ever thought it was.

G. K. Chesterton https://www.chesterton.org/introduction-to-job/

On forgiving one's Elihu:

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theology points