War and suffering are treated by the Jerusalem faction as spiritually useful because losing everything can make people rediscover God, as in Job.
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War and suffering are treated by the Jerusalem faction as spiritually useful because losing everything can make people rediscover God, as in Job.
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Key Notes
Goethe's Faust rewrites Job from a fear-inspiring story about God's unquestionable mystery into an optimistic Enlightenment story about curiosity.
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"...the glory of God. Okay? So, think of the book of Job. Job is a character in the Bible who is very wealthy."
"...Maybe he's only faithful to me because he's very wealthy. So, Job loses everything. And this heightens his faith in God. Okay? So, that's..."
"...of Faust it's based on another book called the book of Job which we find in the Bible. In the book of Job it's..."
"...kill him. Okay. That's the only condition. So Satan basically makes Job's life a living hell. All his children die in accidents. He loses..."
"...question me. Okay. And then what God does is he restores Job's health and wealth. Okay. So it's a very strange story. And it's..."
"...East Asia, South Korea and Japan... need to do a better job of keeping China in check. Okay? That's point two. Point three is..."
"...on with their lives and they care about their families, their jobs, their futures. What message have you got for them?"
"...basically became very depressed. Failure? Yes. Meaning I didn't have a job, meaning I didn't have much income, meaning I didn't have much hope..."
"...for him. And so what happened was that I got a job as a high school teacher. And then I started to make these..."
"...control our money supply and they haven't done a very good job of it with the herky -jerky inflation. And so, I think this..."
"Because we, then at home, we've got jobs to take care of. We've got kids to take care of. And this is part of..."
"...just slides right off yeah that's a toxic chemical doing its job and then doing its other job is poisoning you slowly that's why..."
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