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The Truth About Job: Does “Unclean” Mean Born Depraved?

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The book of Job is a poetic masterpiece that explores the justice of God, the depths of human suffering, and the undeniable frailty of man. Advocates of the depravity doctrine have leaned heavily upon verses found in Job 14 and 15 as evidence for their teaching. The text reads:

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one! (Job 14:4)

What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he could be righteous? (Job 15:14)

Why is the bat listed with birds? | Answering the Atheist

Inquiry:

Answering the Atheist, bat

The bat is not a bird! In Leviticus 11:13-19, we read, “And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, the ossifrage, and the osprey, and the vulture, and the kite after his kind; every raven after his kind, and the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, and the little owl, and the comorant, and the great owl, and the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.” Again, Deuteronomy 14:11-18 declares, “Of all clean birds yet shall eat. But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagles, and the ossigrage, and the osprey, and the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, the little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, and the pelican, and the grier eagle, and the cormorant, and the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.” Is there a contradiction?