Job
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Absurdities
Science and History
Injustice
Contradictions
Cruelty and Violence
Good Stuff
Family Values
Women
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Job: Injustice

  1. God makes a bet with his son, Satan. God tells Satan to do nasty things to Job to see if he can get him to curse God to his face. 1:6-12

  2. God gives Satan power over all that Job possesses. 1:12

  3. To start off God and Satan's gruesome game, Job's slaves and animals are burned to death or killed with swords. Then Job's children are killed in a windstorm while partying. 1:13-19

  4. God kills (or allows Satan to kill) Job's children, but Job doesn't "foolishly" blame God. Since God was responsible, why would it be foolish to blame God? 1:20-22

  5. God and Satan play a little game with Job. God allows Satan to torment Job, just to see how he will react. 2:3-6

  6. God and Satan play a little game with Job. God allows Satan to torment Job, just to see how he will react. 2:3-7

  7. "So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown." 2:7

  8. Because of God's cruel wager with Satan, Job curses the day he was born. 3:2-3, 11

  9. "The arrows of the Almighty are within me ... the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me." 6:4

  10. "Thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions" 7:14

  11. Does God pervert Justice? Well, if you believe the Bible he sure as hell does! 8:3

  12. God multiplies wounds without cause, destroys the perfect along with the wicked, laughs at the trial of the innocent, and hides the truth from judges. 9:17, 22-24

  13. "Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands?" 10:3

  14. Speaking of God, Job says: "He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth." 16:9

  15. The bible is wrong about ostriches being cruel and inattentive parents (39:13-16). But if they were, whose fault would it be? Why would God deprive them of the tools that are needed to do the job right? 39:17

  16. "All the evil that the LORD had brought upon him"
    All of Job's troubles were brought on by God. 42:11

  17. After God (or Satan) kills Job's first set of kids (1:19), he is given an even better set -- with even prettier daughters! 42:13-15