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To: HPilot who wrote (708310)	10/21/2005 3:19:16 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

You need to look at the entire exchange: When the patriarch Job was complaining about his affliction and pain, he made the statements to God that he wished he had never been born. He said: “Let the day perish in which I was born. ... Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from my eyes. Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when I came out of the belly? ... Or as an untimely birth I had NOT been; as infants which never saw light.” Job 3:3, 10-11, 16 That last verse, Job 13:16 tells us very much about how Job saw the matter of being a fetus. He saw it as “not having being,” or as we would say, “not having existence.” That is exactly what the text says and that is what any common sense person would accept as the teaching of Job. But some might object and say that thought was simply Job’s opinion on the matter. No doubt this is true, but God himself stated that Job spoke of God and divine matters in a proper way: “And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, ‘My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends: for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.’” Job 42:7 The simple truth is, when Job was still a fetus within the womb of his mother and had never seen the light of day, that fetus was reckoned as “NOT HAVING BEEN” — and that is how God and the Bible defines the status of the fetus....