Re: [asa] On Job

>
> Vernon commented: "Can such passages as Job 1:6-12 =
> and 2:1-7 be 'interpreted' to mean something different from their
> account of actual meetings, actual discussions and actual consequences?
> And if, in your view they must be accepted as real events, what might we
> usefully glean from them?"

The discussion of the genre of Job somewhat misses the point. Historical
accounts in the Bible are included because of what they tell us about God
and the relationship between man and God, not to supply historical annals.
Non-historical accounts tell us something about a God Who does act in
history.

We might glean that, although Satan is actively malicious, he
cannot overcome God's purposes. The idea that Satan has been free to
manufacture a wholly misleading appearance of geology and astronomy thus
seems unlikely. Besides, surely he has worse things to do than mess with
rocks.

Even if the physical appearance of the earth and skies was maliciously made
to look old by Satan, that doesn't justify making false claims that they
look young.

-- 
> Dr. David Campbell
> 425 Scientific Collections
> University of Alabama
> "I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"
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