For most of Job, I really had no questions for Ted. We settled on the fact that Job was thoroughly lamenting his circumstances, meanwhile proclaiming his innocence. His 'friends' were thoroughly convinced that Job was a "shell" of good behavior, displaying his innocence publicly, meanwhile he must be committing great sin "behind the scenes." They could come up with no other explanation for God's persecution of Job.

My questions began again in Chapter 41:
God is describing a leviathan which is notated as possibly being a crocodile. Do you think these lines are literal or symbolic:
"Firebrands stream from his mouth; sparks of fire shoot out. Smoke pours from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over a fire of reeds. His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from his mouth." I don't believe in fairy tales, but that sounds like a dragon?

Ted: Well, i don't think it sounds like a crocodile either, and a crocodile doesn't breathe out fire. There have been many opinions about what the leviathan is and most say, "well, we KNOW it couldn't be a dragon...." Personally, i lean toward believing that it was a dragon, or something similar to a dragon. It looks like a dragon, sounds like a dragon, and acts like a dragon, so why can't it be a dragon, which now is extinct? I have absolutely NO problem believing that God could create such an animal.




And what about the behemoth? I think the footnote saying it's a hippo or elephant sounds reasonable, or maybe something more akin to a mammoth?

Ted: Well, i tend not to think that it was a mere hippopotamus or elephant. I think it was more than that.