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Originally Posted by Quahom1

"...Have you considered my faithful servant Job?"

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Isn't that Job story a kind of a parable. And the Jews of the OT are aware that trials are supposed to test their faith; there are other such stories to strengthen the faith of Jahweh's people. And Jobs in real life know that they just have to play the script and pass the test just like Abraham also, and they will get back everything and more.

Job got back everything and more, didn't he in the story?


Here is a project for believers in the Old Testament (did I mention this to you in some other thread or here...?)

Approach OT scholars who are really recognized authorities of OT language and history.

Ask them to form themselves into a committee to work out the list of OT doctrines and precepts, and to assign after voting on them, scores respectively ranking each doctrinal proposition and each precept of religious moral observance.

Yes, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 the highest, meaning the most certain to be propounded in the Bible, and the most compelling in mandatory force.

This kind of a tabulation from scholars of universally recognized worth will be very useful for believers in the Old Testament to come to some kind of a consensus in their advocacy of OT doctrines and precepts.

How? Well, they will then know from that tabulation established by scholars of universal worth, even atheistic but genuinely conversant with OT lnaguage and history, which doctrines and which precepts are the most certain, for scoring 10, and the lesser convincing for not scoring a perfect 10.

But I can see a downside here, namely, that doctrines and precepts scoring a perfect 10 might turn out to be incompatible among themselves.

In which case the believers in the Old Testament will learn the fact that they can't just take everything or anything there with any kind of absolute unquestioning adherence.

For unbelievers such a tabulated list with ranking will serve them well in any debate with believers, to show how believers don't necessarily have the doctrines or precepts with the most certain and coercive strength, that is, having scores of 10.

Do you know of any such tabulation?


I am inviting also people here to start a thread on working for earthly goods in one's religion, is that unworthy?

Pachomius2000