The ‘scrapheap’ Job -- #286

[July 2006 journal entry]
There are two ways within the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm to assess one’s spiritual status –

1. to reason inductively from observable behavior to conclusions re being among the righteous or the unrighteous or
2. to reason deductively from life circumstances re being blessed or being cursed to conclusions re being among the righteous or the unrighteous.

Painful experiences may initially be classified as misfortune and set aside as analogous to statistical anomalies that do not melt or hollow out or ruin the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm. If the wicked (as determined by observable behavior) are not cursed, at what point does the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm begin to break down?