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If you read it the right way, the book of Jonah reads like a really weird episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
What’s the book of Job then? A you tube prank channel run by man-babies?
Arrested Development
"Sorry about your wives and kids, have some new ones. It was just a prank bro."
A narcissistic asshole gaslighting its victims into believing they’re not really victims because the narcissistic asshole made a bet.
It’s supposed the be an explanation for how evil can exist despite a benevolent creator… but it sums up as a sock puppet to which the explanation is “you wouldn’t understand”
It's also completely undermined in Isaiah.
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Isaiah 45:7. Evil exists because God creates evil.
pretty sure Isaiah didn't conceive of a benevolent god.
pretty sure Isaiah's god (all four isaiahs, in fact,) was a pretty freaking angry god.
The Bible is nothing if not inconsistent.
Pretty much yeah. I was going to say an episode of Fear Factor but same thing.