From d342c5f6e6b351da6b4d062cc1c8fadfc3f6da53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madison Scott-Clary Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2023 09:05:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update from sparkleup --- writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/younes.html | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/younes.html b/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/younes.html index aca268da0..b181d3f54 100644 --- a/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/younes.html +++ b/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/younes.html @@ -32,7 +32,6 @@

Enter Younes.

Looking back, coming up with a character that looks male, has that plausible deniability of masculinity, yet

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We know that it’s much more complex. We have the benefit of the framing device to keep in mind. Elihu speaks of wisdom yet lacks the knowledge. He can claim to have one and yet still not know that he lacks the other.

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    This unspoken and unspeakable, unknown and unknowable language is the only way we can possibly move within the world under the guidance of God. Here, however, he falls back into the common theme of Job’s reprovers, that he surely must have done something wrong that he feels the need to call for an advocate before God — an ally rather than an adversary, perhaps — “For a man’s acts He pays him back, and by a person’s path He provides him,” Elihu reasons. ↩

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    Strangely, Elihu, for all his talk on wisdom, seems to lack the wisdom required to understand the first part of his proposition, that the workings of God are so far beyond human understanding that we cannot know them well enough to call Him to account for his actions. He immediately falls back on the comforting assertion that cause must precede effect. Of course Job is experiencing such hardships! If he is experiencing such effects, then there must be a cause, and that cause must be the most rational one: an offense against God. ↩

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    Strangely, Elihu, for all his talk on wisdom, seems to lack the wisdom required to understand the first part of his proposition, that the workings of God are so far beyond human understanding that we cannot know them well enough to call Him to account for his actions. He immediately falls back on the comforting assertion that cause must precede effect. Of course Job is experiencing such hardships! If he is experiencing such effects, then there must be a cause, and that cause must be the most rational one: an offense against God.

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    We know that it’s much more complex. We have the benefit of the framing device to keep in mind. Elihu speaks of wisdom yet lacks the knowledge. He can claim to have one and yet still not know that he lacks the other. ↩