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08-08-2007, 05:32 AM | #31 |
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Pretty much in order:
Mark - the earliest synoptic, and you can almost see a human Jesus hidden in there somewhere Revelation - one of the major causes of me giving up Christianity Genesis - Great early telling of all the "why is it so" questions that kids ask their parents. Daddy, what is a rainbow, why don't snakes have legs, hoiw come some people talk different...(admittedly Kipling did it better) Exodus - "Tall tales and true of a legendary past" (and I don't even remember which TV show that quote came from - could have been Wyatt Earp) Job - God and Satan having a friendly bet over coffee makes me laugh, although the morality of the whole thing is pretty sick. I don't mind dipping into Proverbs either - but not to "read", just to look up the odd... uuummm... proverb. Norm |
08-08-2007, 06:55 AM | #32 |
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Song of Solomon always made me giggle.
I wonder what a certain lady would say, if I used parts of it as compliments in intimate moments: "Oh baby, your teeth is like a flock of sheep". "...What?" "You know, they're tight and in place?" "WHAT?" "And-and-and they're all white, I mean there's no black ones or anything and..." *THWACK* |
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I have always found Revelation a bit hard going maybe it should be read having taken drugs on an industrial scale though. Ruth and then Judith I would say ,Judith in particular being a decent enough "spy story" really (but not all Bibles appear to have that one in them ) |
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Seconded. I thought Ezekiel had some fairly nifty and evocative imagery, until I read Revelation. Hot. Damn. |
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