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Jacob or Job?

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Recently I was reading in the Old Testament about a patriarch named Jacob whose name, not surprisingly, meant “deceiver”; Jacob was an “if-then” kind of guy. In Genesis 28:20 Jacob makes a conditional vow saying “IF God does certain things for me THEN the Lord will be my God” I was a little surprised to see God didn’t smack him in the back of the head. That’s what my Father woul...

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