tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50609355816776618222011-10-02T08:47:48.722-04:00Tad Davisnoreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060935581677661822.post-4387852723631037502011-01-28T15:55:00.001-05:002011-01-29T15:59:27.605-05:00

Moving on to Psalms … One of the first things that strikes me is that Job and Psalms are definitely not painted with the same brush. The very first Psalm says: whatever the good person does will prosper; the wicked are like chaff the wind blows away.Of course, there are many Psalms and many different viewpoints. Theology isn't a strong suit here, or at least not the main point: the Psalms mainly

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Job says some shocking things about God.He oppresses me without mercy, says Job. He won't let up for a minute; he won't even give me time to spit. And the attention he gives me is unwelcome: constantly judging, constantly weighing, constantly condemning. Why did you create human beings, says Job, if all you plan to do is criticize them to death and then leave them in the world of the dead?One of

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I've been spending a fair amount of time lately reading the Bible. In some ways it's an unusual activity for me: I'm an agnostic, and I like to believe I'm agnostic on principle (I don't believe it's possible for human beings to know the Truth, with a capital "T", about anything). But I came from a deeply religious family, and although the spirit drained out of the experience for me, the emotion

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