In article .com> "Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD" > writes:
> convicted neighbor Cary Kittrell wrote:
> > Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, wrote:
> > > convicted neighbor Cary Kittrell wrote:
> > > > Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
> > > > > convicted neighbor Cary Kittrell wrote:
> > > > > > Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
> > > > > > > convicted neighbor Cary Kittrell wrote:
> > > > > > > > Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
> > > > > > > > > convicted neighbor Cary Kittrell wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > > convicted neighbor Cary Kittrell wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > > > Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > http://groups.google.com/group/sci.m...aa521e992d0f2?
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > "After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD made him prosperous
> > > > > > > > > again and gave him twice as much as he had before. All his brothers
> > > > > > > > > and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with
> > > > > > > > > him in his house." (Job 42:10-11)
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > > After the test, GOD restored all that Job had lost and multiplied this
> > > > > > > > > > > > > by two.
> > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > The kids and the servants were still dead.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Incorrect.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > "... and **everyone** who had known him before..." would include his kids
> > > > > > > > > and servants.
> > > > >
> > > > > **emphasis** added.
> > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > So Job losing his children, in order that God might get a
> > > > > > > > > > couple of one-upmanship points in his aimable little
> > > > > > > > > > bet with Satan ws no tregedy?
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Most assuredly, without doubt, I know GOD to be kind, just, and right
> > > > > > > > > in all things.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Securing the eternal defeat of satan is right and Job was rewarded
> > > > > > > > > when all that he had lost was restored to him times two. This
> > > > > > > > > included the resurrection of all who died.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > So Job got all his original kids back, raised from the dead?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Correct.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Untterly, completely, and entirely without Scriptural basis.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Job 42:10-11 is Scripture.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Scripture which nowhere says that the used kids were raised
> > > > > > from the dead.
> > > > >
> > > > > See **emphasis** above.
> > > >
> > > > So: every person Job had ever known in his life?
> > > > Grandfather, childhood playmates, people who had
> > > > passed through but were now in distant lands,
> > > > everyone he had ever met one time in his entire life
> > > > but who had since gone on about theirs, GOD rounded
> > > > up all of the thousands of people Job had ever met in
> > > > his long life, from wherever they had gone, and <POOF!>
> > > > dumped them all down at Job's place?
> > >
> > > Yes.
> >
> > Geez, that's too bad then: I had thought that Job's torment
> > was supposed to be over by that point.
>
> Sad to read that you would consider friends and family a torment
Oh, that part would be fine.
It's the every-single-person-he-had-ever-met,-however-briefly,-over
the-entire-course-of-his-lifetime,-starting-from-day-one
part that I had in mind.
Yep, that would be a pretty decent definition of "torment".
Try telling your wife that six thousand people will be dropping
by for dinner, perhaps she can explain it to you.
-- cary