<li>Inverse Pascal’s wager (impossible to distinguish between God’s wrath and God’s indifference) even if you believe, this could still happen (~14mins)</li>
<p>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.</p>
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<p>G. K. Chesterton https://www.chesterton.org/introduction-to-job/</p>
<divclass="codehilite"><pre><span></span><code><spanclass="err">\</span><spanclass="n">footnote</span><spanclass="err">{</span><spanclass="n">I</span><spanclass="s1">'ve heard said in the past that "forgiveness is releasing the hope for a better past" \parencite{wakefield} but it'</span><spanclass="n">s</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">more</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">complicated</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="k">than</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">that</span><spanclass="p">,</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">isn</span><spanclass="s1">'t it? That quote itself is more complicated than that:</span>
<spanclass="s1">\begin{verse}</span>
<spanclass="s1">There are ways around being the go-to person \\</span>
<spanclass="s1">even for ourselves \\</span>
<spanclass="s1">even when the answer is clear \\</span>
<spanclass="s1">clear like the holy water Gentiles would drink \\</span>
<spanclass="s1">before they realized \\</span>
<spanclass="s1">forgiveness is the release of all hope for a better past</span>
<spanclass="s1">\end{verse}</span>
<spanclass="s1">Primed as we are to take text out of context, wrap our own needs around it, and pretend that it is in all ways applicable to all situations (for did I not already bring up mistaking accidental, individual symbols for universal ones?), it'</span><spanclass="n">s</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">so</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">easy</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="k">to</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">misremember</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">that</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">the</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">better</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">past</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">we</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">hope</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="k">for</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="k">is</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">just</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="ow">some</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">dream</span><spanclass="p">,</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="ow">some</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">thing</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">we</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">cling</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="k">to</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">long</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="k">after</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">the</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">us</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">that</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">lived</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">that</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">past</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">has</span><spanclass="w"></span><spanclass="n">died</span><spanclass="p">.</span><spanclass="w"></span>