Just to clarify my thoughts (since I've had a number of people ask me about it) re: Job and cursing God. There's a big difference between cursing God as used in Scripture and how we generally would think of cursing at God today.
Cursing someone, in the Bible, has a lot of depth to it. It's not just saying "screw you " in anger, it's got a sense of forsakenness to it. It's the opposite of a blessing, a removal of blessing. If the blessing is presence, your face shining on the person you're blessing, then a curse is absence. In some translations, Job's wife tells him to "renounce God and die," which I honestly think makes a lot more sense to modern ears.
Job says a lot of unpleasant things to and about God in his anger and grief. So do the Psalmists. A number of the Prophets. So can we. God can take it if we come to him with honest expressions of our emotion, including those not-so-nice ones directed at him. I don't think there's anything wrong with getting mad at God and saying, "How dare you, you bastard" when you suffer unjustly. You can say much worse, I think, without sinning, though I don't feel particularly inclined to give examples. But as long as it's an honest expression of your heart, I think you're doing exactly what prayer is for. You're presenting him your heart with an open hand. He can use that. Opposite of love is not hate but indifference, etc.
Job doesn't renounce God. Neither should we. But I think when you're truly suffering, you're gonna have those feelings toward God either way. He'd rather you address them with him directly than try to avoid them. Cursing at God in the modern sense is actually a great way to keep the relationship strong and not end up cursing/renouncing him in the Biblical sense.
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Drew literally a boatload of women over the past two weeks or so! All these lovely ladies belong to my mutuals on Instagram!
Beatrice- @ hysteria.harbor
Onyx- @ghoulghostly
Rose- @mushroommans-cache
Elaine- @knightlyknight-art
Flynn- @irradiatedrosegarden
Angie- @grease-weasel
Six- @valkyrieylva
Val- @satiricalkat
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Hadley- @ honeycombwe
Susie- @ _sxm058_
Lillie- @serknighted
Erin- @ dandypork
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i think its very funny how my mom hates the anime boob posters i have in my room but says nothing when she sees my drawings of scantily clad men with equal if not larger boobs.
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In my humble opinion we need to start making every character fat. To heal the world
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Thrawn on the beach. Do Grand Admirals even get leave?
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