The Quest:Book 18 - Job

the book of Job is briefly discussed...thanks for watching and again,please fill all gaps i may have missed in this or any of these videos.

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[ScrapGoldBass]

SHE ASSES--:) I thinks its cool that Job is in the Bible. Some think that God wont stand for any questioning of Him. But, Job ended up questioning God's goodness.God sort of set job straight at the end......

[stonedcommander]

i love she asses!

[SonistheFatherofMan]

I thought he did get upset with G-d at one point.

[stonedcommander]

please point it out.

[SoftwareEngineer3]

GoodGuy4life199, clearly you haven't been following the series, or read the book. This is the first time The Satan is mentioned as a cause of pain. Even here it is only by God's permission and rules.

God, the Mafia boss.

[SoftwareEngineer3]

@GoodGuy: Genesis talks about a snake, not Satan. The snake's punishment does not fit in with your view. Genesis "explains" why snakes are hated, and why they don't have legs. The Satan has his legs intact, no?

You bringing up the census and the "6305 years" claim make me have to call Poe's law on you.

[jakespop67]

This is my favorite book !

[gorillamummy]

Here's a quote from Polo's writings, detailing a creature he encountered in Asia: "Here are found snakes and huge serpents, ten paces in length and ten spans in girth [50 feet long; 100 inches in girth]. At the fore part, near the head, they have two short legs, each with three claws, as well as eyes larger than a loaf and very glaring. The jaws are wide enough to swallow a man, the teeth are large and sharp, and their appearance is so formidable that neither man nor animal can approach them."

[coolintruddle]

I'm well versed in Alexandrian literature.But you make my point.Herodotus describes small winged lizards living in frankincense trees.I have no problem with that.There are many lizards that can glide between trees.you're putting spin on what he says.Marco Polo though?I'm not as well read on that one.Wasn't he in the 13th century? You can't say there were dinosaurs in the 13th century.

[gorillamummy]

Ah, there's the point. What if they have been written about all along, but only dismissed in modern times in order to protect scientific orthodoxy? I say this because historic literature is replete with references to such creatures. Even Marco Polo, Herodotus and Alexander the Great wrote about seeing them. They didn't use the word "dinosaur" of course because it hadn't yet been coined, but the references are clear. Have you ever read-up on this subject , just out of curiosity? It's interesting.

[coolintruddle]

What other ancient studies do you mean?It's not an effort to dismiss the possibility.There is no evidence to support the possibility.Look,we're not talking about 50,000 years ago here.We're talking about 3500years at the most.We had writing then.Some one would have written about them is all I'm saying.

[gorillamummy]

coolintruddle: You say, "There is absolutely no way you can take something drawn 10-12 thousand years ago and put our modern mindset to it." But do you notice that we do not impose that limitation on ourselves with regard to any other field of ancient study? There is a tremendous effort underway to dismiss even the possibility of human/dinosaur co-existance, and I believe it is intellectually dishonest. Not you, of courrse. I'm speaking in general.

[coolintruddle]

What you're proposing is akin to Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods.There is absolutely no way you can take something drawn 10-12 thousand years ago and put our modern mindset to it.When dinosaurs were around,mammals were little rodent like things. The earliest writings we have pre date the OT by around 2000 years.I would think they would talk about giant man eating (or crop eating) animals.The evidence is just not there.

[gorillamummy]

I think that when taken along with the rest of the description of Behemoth it's clearly talking about a very large tail. Regarding when dinosaurs did nor did not exist, one has to admit that the abundance of dinosaur-like images in ancient art and literature is at the very least interesting. It doesn't prove anything, but honest exploration begins with recognizing that there might be something to learn.

[coolintruddle]

Ya,um,that passage is open to a huge amount of interpretation.I'm from cedar country.Mountains covered in them.The sway rather easily in a nice breeze.Kind of like an elephants tail while swatting flies.All I'm saying is there were no dinosaurs 3-4 thousand years ago.