[Skywalk]

LOL It's words on a page, it's not inscrutable. If these texts were meant to be unintelligible, they'd never have been WRITTEN DOWN. A lot of devout types will start to run in circles with their logic in order to defend their view, much as Muslims do when they say "Muslims could not have done this, because it is against the teachings of Islam."

In this case, after I demolish(and a very poor job of it, there are far better skeptic arguments, i just give a sampling) the morality of the lessons in Job, you respond by saying I cannot comprehend God's word. That's the old appeal to authority. "you cannot divine the Will of God" is not a valid counter to the many arguments skeptics make. You'll have to come much stronger than that, and avoid the logical fallacies.

Being someone who was once religious, I've heard the justifications. Perhaps I realized the rationalizations were garbage, and this may have swayed me, ya think? Heck, there's an entire book that simply LISTS(not much editorializing) of inconsistencies, inaccuracies and immoralities in the Good Book. Yes, I own it, and facts be facts. Sorry...

[LaineyDee]

*chuckle* I have heard all the rhetoric from unbelievers also about the inconsistancies in the Word. They didn't hold water when put to the test. The problem is faulty research techniques. Instead of researching with an unbiased opinion, they look for things to back up their pre-determined hypothesis...leaving out what doesn't "fit" with what they want the outcome to be.