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ORIGINAL: Milesnmiles

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ORIGINAL: Wayward5oul

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My understanding of Job is that everything that happens (including the weather) is too God's fault as that whole book of the old testament makes it clear that God is deliberately tormenting the poor bastard to prove a point to Satan. He says as much when he finally deigns to answer Job's very justified tantrum towards the end, doesn't He?

Once again I'm amazed that people who want to criticize the God of the Bible, will do so on hearsay and not on what the Bible actually says. If you were to actually read the account you reference, you might notice that God not torment the "poor bastard".

The bible is hearsay from hearsay.

Do you even know what hearsay is?

Actually, he is correct.

And to you I ask the same question; "Do you even know what hearsay is"?

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Assuming you're not using the legal definition, hearsay is information received from somebody else which cannot be substantiated.
How this isn't descriptive of the Bible's content I'd be intrigued to know. Even if you accept that it's on the level, the whole book is composed of second or third hand accounts of stuff other people or celestial entities did, is it not?

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Assuming you're not using the legal definition, hearsay is information received from somebody else which cannot be substantiated.
How this isn't descriptive of the Bible's content I'd be intrigued to know. Even if you accept that it's on the level, the whole book is composed of second or third hand accounts of stuff other people or celestial entities did, is it not?

Do you consider everything you read to be hearsay, after all you didn't directly experience it did you?

Personally, I used the term to describe what people are doing when they have not read the Bible and have no personal knowledge of what the Bible says and use what they have been told about what the Bible says rather than being knowledgeable about what the Bible actually says for themselves. Which to me is pretty much the definition of hearsay.

As for the Bible being hearsay, I guess it depends on what you believe. If you believe, as you seem to do, that "the whole book is composed of second or third hand accounts of stuff" then yes, I can see why you would believe it to be a book of hearsay. But if you believe that the Bible's author is God and that those who wrote it were merely scribes writing what God "inspired" them to write then, no, it is not hearsay.