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<h1>Zk | 1-framing-devices</h1>
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<p>At best guess, there are no two more hotly contested, more thoroughly discussed books in the Christian bible than those of Job and Revelation.<sup id="fnref:1revelation"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1revelation">1</a></sup></p>
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<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>\parencite{intro-to-job}</p>
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<p>At best guess, there are no two more hotly contested, more thoroughly discussed books in the Christian bible than those of Job and Revelation.<sup id="fnref:1revelation"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1revelation">1</a></sup></p>
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<p>Perhaps it is the dire nature by which both approach the world. Job takes a look at the world, heaves a weary sigh, and says, “I suppose this is it. This is the lot we have been given in life.” While Revelation looks at the world and growls deep in its through, a sound coming from the belly, and says, “This must not be it. This cannot be the ways in which the world works.”<sup id="fnref:1works"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1works">2</a></sup></p>
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<p>Or perhaps it is the way in which they view death. While Job looks on death almost fondly, Revelation reiterates the Christian sentiment that death has been defeated. It is no more, and while there is everlasting life beyond it, it is worth considering, worth focusing on.</p>
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<p>While doubtless Jews may have a dim opinion of Revelation, given its relative irrelevance in their lives, Job has been the subject of both rabbinical teaching and Christian exegesis for centuries now. This, perhaps is where it outstrips Revelation in its interest.</p>
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<p>And if He does not exist? The folktale and the book as a whole do not depend on the existence of God in their interpretation. They still work to repudiate the idea that, if bad things happen to you, it is because you’re a bad person.</p>
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<p>These interpretations are doing a lot of heavy lifting, however. They accept at face value Job’s capitulation in chapter 40, where, after being thoroughly excoriated by no less than God Himself, he says, “Look, I am worthless. What can I say back to You?” (Job 40:4, Alter) and “I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but will proceed no further.” (Job 40:5, NRSV)<sup id="fnref:1versions"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1versions">8</a></sup></p>
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<p>Who can blame Job? God is quite frankly terrifying. No matter how strongly I might call God to account, I strongly suspect that I, too, would fall flat on my face and do what I could to have so terrible a gaze move away from me.</p>
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<p>But one must wonder just how much longer that desire to call God to account must have lingered in Job’s heart afterwards. He lived another 140 years; did he forget his ten children? Did he forget those thousands of heads of livestock? For doubtless he had favorites! Did he still think of his great abundance of slaves? Did he think of these late at night even though he had ten new children, new favorite sheep, a new abundance of slaves? He must have. For our sakes, he must have.</p>
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<h1>Zk | 4-unknown</h1>
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<h1 id="the-elevation-of-unknown-things">The Elevation of Unknown Things</h1>
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<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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<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>
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<li>(Hunt for Vanessa Zoltan’s dad saying “If God is not dead, he is not welcome in my home”) (~15mins)</li>
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<p>Chesterton quote:</p>
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<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>
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<p>Page generated on 2022-04-26</p>
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