Job vs Paul

[Richard Fiero]

Terrance wrote
> > Depends on how you define "more intense" I guess.  I
> > don't think anything gets much more intense than
> > Abraham's faith in God which leads him to sacrifice
> > Isaac, a story that features prominently in Pynchon.
>
>Simple I know and silly, but A man's aborted sacrifice of his son to
>god, when god intervenes to prevent the man from murdering his son and
>makes a covenant with the man, is quite different from that god
>sacrificing his son to save the man. What's the REASON for this change
>from the OT to the NT? Is it that GOD is now more reasonable? Or  is it
>a matter of Faith? Both? Man's faith in God? God's FAITH in man? Both?
>God sacrifices his son so that man may have LIFE eternal. Is that
>reasonable?

Yes, it is perhaps REASONable.
We have:
1. Garden of Eden.
2. "Lucifer" from Old English from Latin "light-bearing."
3. Eating of the Tree of Knowledge.
4. Flaming Sword preventing return and perhaps symbolizing the 
knowledge process and even issuing out of the mouth of God as 
the Divine Logos, the Word, and creating the cosmos.
After deifying the problem, we then have
5. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
was God." John 1:1.
6. The Son sacrificed along with the products of binary 
rationality (REASON) the good and bad thieves. Or perhaps they 
symbolize the integrated Twin nature of the Hero - Mithra and 
Varuna, Mason and Dixon.


>In GR, Man sacrifices man. Father kills his son. What is his reason for
>doing so?
>God doesn't intervene. Does nothing to prevent it. And the sacrifice is
>not to god and is not about Life is it?
>NO, It's about DEATH.
>Poor man, always trying to find a Reason for death.
>Keeps trying till he puts all his reason and all his faith in Death.
>But Life, scatterbrained and meshed up in the mysterious rings only God
>can know,
>goes on all around YOU.

Okay.