Have you ever read the Bible?

Kermit.de.frog · 23-08-2019 11:30PM #1

I have never read and know next to nothing about it.

I don't know if I'm missing out or not.

Is it any good, worth while picking up?

Trump says it's his favourite book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERUngQUCsyE

If you have read it tell us what you think? Sell the experience.

I'll prob pick up the book tomorrow, sure why not?

23-08-2019 11:34PM

Not a patch on The Communist Manifesto.

Pints? · 23-08-2019 11:40PM

I glanced at it. Boy cries wolf, has a few laughs. Forget how it ends.

1o059k7ewrqj3n · 23-08-2019 11:41PM

I've never read the Bible, but there was a lad who was a Jehovah witness in my primary school class who always brought his bible into school. It had loads of pictures and was really vivid - it was like whoever made the original Doom making a version of the Bible - loved looking at it. I'd say at this stage now even though I was baptised, done communion and confirmation, that I am probably more Jehovah witness than Catholic.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 23-08-2019 11:41PM

I've read most of it.

corner of hells · 23-08-2019 11:42PM

Worked with a Born Again Christian , she quoted bits of the Bible any chance she got , so I didn't need to read it

Things go a bit much , when she started getting religious hallucinations and had to draw them out later with markers and crayons.

There's only so much bollix anyone can put up with .

Ninthlife · 23-08-2019 11:45PM

Spoiler Alert

He dies in the end

ILoveYourVibes · 23-08-2019 11:46PM

Not your bible well not properly. Well I have probably have a tiny bit from somewhere. From your bible i have read the sermon on the mount.

I'm Jewish so i have read parts of the Tanakh. Obv not all of it. I used read talmud a lot. I didn't like order tractates though.

Song of songs.song of solomon is my fav part of the tanakh. Its one of the Scrolls (megillot) of the last third section (ketivum) of the Tanakh.

Victoria Hannah put part of it to music.

I really like the sermon on the mount from your bible

It's very jewish.

kneemos · 23-08-2019 11:46PM

Catholics don't traditionally do the bible very well.
Protestants read and study the thing a lot more.

Ninthlife · 23-08-2019 11:48PM

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

Not your bible well not properly. Well I have probably have a tiny bit from somewhere. From your bible i have read the sermon on the mount.

I'm Jewish so i have read parts of the Tanakh. Obv not all of it. I used read talmud a lot. I didn't like order tractates though.

Song of songs.song of solomon is my fav part of the tanakh. Its one of the Scrolls (megillot) of the last third section (ketivum) of the Tanakh.

Victoria Hannah put part of it to music.

I really like the sermon on the mount from your bible
It's very jewish.

I was hoping your book was called Jewmanji

L1011 · 23-08-2019 11:48PM

Yes. The early bits are amongst the most murderous, violent and hideous texts you're likely to find in a primary school and then it gets EXTREMELY boring.

And what you get can be very different depending on the translation.

Atheist, raised as sort-of-RC-sort-of-COI-sort-of-nothing, reading it had no affect on me. People who attribute life changes to reading it were generally coming down off something when they did so.

Tammy! · 23-08-2019 11:50PM

No I've never read it. Im not religious but i've heard it's a great book to read.

gozunda · 23-08-2019 11:55PM

Read it from cover to cover as a teenager - some interesting stuff for sure. In the beginning there was a lot of begatting going on. Jonah got his fish or rather the fish got him. Job got a raw deal as did the lady who got thrown to the bandits by her husband to stop them robbing the house. Jesus was probably the first new age hippy type. Fair play to him for setting the trend but he did leave a lot of unanswered questions. Revelations was a revelation. My favourite line from the Bible is "Thine eyes are like the fish pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon looking toward Damascus.". Pretty much describes the wife tbh. I'm waiting for the next installment to be released though I'm starting to loose hope at this stage ...

Othe intersting reads I got through include

The Book of Mormon
The Q'uran
The Bhagavad Gita
And The Tibetan Book of the Dead

I still have nightmares occasionally....

Snotty · 23-08-2019 11:55PM

It's not a book to be read front to back, saying that I have read all of it and the teaching of all bar the most extremely zealous Christian religions are just a cherry pick of what suits for the modern age.
If you wanted a church that followed all teachings of the bible..... I don't even know what that would look like.

For the record, I don't belive in organised religion, it's caused more harm that good.

ILoveYourVibes · 23-08-2019 11:56PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

I don't know if I'm missing out or not.

Is it any good, worth while picking up?

Song of songs.Its a dialogue between a woman and her lover who is god. Its also about human love. Which god has ordained as heavenly. Not just between lovers but as how madly and passionately we should all love each other.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth--for thy love is better than wine.

I am come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

They are right to love you.
5 I am dark, but lovely,
you daughters of Jerusalem,
like Kedar’s tents,
like Solomon’s curtains.
6 Don’t stare at me because I am dark,
because the sun has scorched me.
My mother’s sons were angry with me.
They made me keeper of the vineyards.
I haven’t kept my own vineyard.
7 Tell me, you whom my soul loves,

Victoria Hanna really gets the longing.

Pretty sure its part of the christian bible too.

Raconteuse · 23-08-2019 11:57PM

God yeah they were mad for the begetting.

Heroditas · 24-08-2019 12:02AM

Ninthlife wrote: »

Spoiler Alert

He dies in the end

EVERYONE dies in the end!! It's like a Spaghetti Western!

uck51js9zml2yt · 24-08-2019 12:04AM

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

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I really like the sermon on the mount from your bible
It's very jewish.

Considering it was a Jew who spoke the words, it's not very surprising that it would've Jewish.
Problem is, we read it with s Greek mindset

Been reading it over 30 years

ILoveYourVibes · 24-08-2019 12:04AM

Heroditas wrote: »

EVERYONE dies in the end!! It's like a Spaghetti Western!

Its blazing saddles without the swearing!

gozunda · 24-08-2019 12:06AM

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

Its blazing saddles without the swearing!

There's a fair amount about taking the lords in name in vain and getting stoned. Must have been some fairly good parties back then for sure...

Itssoeasy · 24-08-2019 12:08AM

Years ago in school I read one of the gospels(might have been Luke) but honestly no I’ve not willingly read the Bible to any great extent.

ILoveYourVibes · 24-08-2019 12:14AM

Alexis Massive Hardware wrote: »

Considering it was a Jew who spoke the words, it's not very surprising that it would've Jewish.
Problem is, we read it with s Greek mindset

Been reading it over 30 years

Roman mindset more so I think. Think about it ..vatican.

ILoveYourVibes · 24-08-2019 12:16AM

gozunda wrote: »

There's a fair amount about taking the lords in name in vain and getting stoned. Must have been some fairly good parties back then for sure...

True

You don't have the talmud to go with it though.

Heroditas · 24-08-2019 12:18AM

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

Its blazing saddles without the swearing!

Dunno about that. Jesus is bandied about a lot

HorrorScope · 24-08-2019 12:19AM

Read a bit of it, loved the car chase in chapter 6.

Wibbs · 24-08-2019 12:42AM

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

Roman mindset more so I think. Think about it ..vatican.

More Greek, on a few levels.

ILoveYourVibes · 24-08-2019 12:44AM

Wibbs wrote: »

More Greek, on a few levels.

The logos ...plato etc??

I not sure ...its you guys bible!

gozunda · 24-08-2019 01:01AM

Wibbs wrote: »

More Greek, on a few levels.

Indeed.
Blessed are the Greek @2:30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGI4IisWASU

jaxxx · 24-08-2019 01:10AM

Read? No. But going back eons ago when people used old traditional fires, was out of coal one night and it was freezing so chucked on the closest thing I could find which just so happened to be a bible.

paleoperson · 24-08-2019 01:12AM

Can't be any more drawn out and irrelevant than that Wheel of Time lark.

Atlantic Dawn · 24-08-2019 01:14AM

Reading a comic would have the same relevance.

Have you ever read the Bible?

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