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Psalms and Lamentations are prettiest. |
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I am soooooooo for this. There are beautiful poems in the Bible, but it is also the Holy Word of God |
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Some of it is. |
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You have a point. Funny that the original version was crude and not watered down. "had sex with"
instead of "slept by" from the watered down KJV. I like a lot of Greek literature. Fascinating
things they be!
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The Bible is the finest literary masterpiece in the whole world. It is a stunning accomplishment of
humanity and our first major written accounts.
To be fair, every religious text, from the Bible to the Rig Vedas, are literary masterpieces, as
they define and capture the deepest human desire: The belief that there is something greater than us
and by following the path we will reach God |
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If you take out Leviticus I can go for that. I don't know if you have read the whole bible but there
are strange, wonderful, and often horrifying stories throughout. It probably deserves at least a pg
13 rating though. |
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There are many beautiful things written in the Bible. Furthermore, it's immense age, size,
complexity, which were created at a time novels did not exist yet and peoples' cultures were so much
more simple makes it a marvel.
I do have to say though it's full of lots of flotsam and jetsum, historic artifacts which mean
little in the present day, and confusing messages. People who attack the "masterpiece" label from
that standpoint have valid points. Check out this website:
Http://www.cracked.com/article_16546_6-raunchiest-most-depraved-sex-acts-from-bible.html . Yes it's
blowing a few stories up in scandalous ways, yet it is true those stories are inside this
"masterpiece".
The Bible is a major historic document of tremendous impact and value to the world, but it was
written by people for people, and it does have its flaws. We can still draw tremendous inspiration
from it, and yes there are some lovely quotations and lessons. |
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The bible is filled with extraordinary context; it is, and it inspires, astounding literature. |
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Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Marvelous work God. |
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The Eddas (Norse mythology, like Beowulf) and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are literary
masterpieces. The buybull (because one must buy the bull to believe
it) is litter and misery to all it has been inflicted on.
At least the aforementioned Norse and Greek fables have a moral tale and literary purpose. The
buybull is nothing but a book of blood. As I heard it aptly said, "Half the buybull is nothing
but who to kill and how to kill them."
If these books were movies, the Norse and Greek films would be considered classics and the buybull
would be slasher movies, like "Friday the 13th", "Hallowe'en" and "Nightmare on Elm Street" rolled
into one. Actually, that's a pretty good analogy: The trinities of Michael Myers, Jason and Freddy
Krueger are just as bloodthirsty as the mythical "father", "son" and "holy ghost". |
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