Tuesday, March 22, 2005

This Is me Putting off Hebrew

Tonight I made a theological statement. "GOD . . . he's got his crap together!" Today in my class, "Job and the Literature of Faith and Doubt" we discussed the play Prometheus Bound by Aeschlyus. In it we discovered that Zeus is a selfish, sadistic, capricious, oppressive, vindictive, et cetera, and et cetera. After having spent the past 14 weeks discussing the book of Job it was impossible to not compare God to the gods. By comparison, God really does have his crap together. While one would not necessarily call him 'cuddly' after reading Job, we do at least get the picture that he genuinely cares for the world he made and the creatures he put in it. Unlike the eternally wise Zeus, God does not use his sovreignty over the world to dominate it, but to care for it.

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