[July 2006 journal entry]
Does the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm expect/demand the cowering and the silence implied by the ‘scrapheap’ Job (6:5-7) and demonstrated by the prologue Job as well as the whirlwind section’s ending? Yes. They might respond initially in defiance, but a individuals and communities committed to seeing world events and human experiences through the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm expect (pressure) the ‘scrapheap’ Jobs eventually (1) to accept the pain/suffering – however tragic and profound -- as the intent/will of ‘God’ and, therefore, as just and as beyond question and (2) to repent of the initial defiance.
Does the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm expect/demand the cowering and the silence implied by the ‘scrapheap’ Job (6:5-7) and demonstrated by the prologue Job as well as the whirlwind section’s ending? Yes. They might respond initially in defiance, but a individuals and communities committed to seeing world events and human experiences through the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm expect (pressure) the ‘scrapheap’ Jobs eventually (1) to accept the pain/suffering – however tragic and profound -- as the intent/will of ‘God’ and, therefore, as just and as beyond question and (2) to repent of the initial defiance.
