/lit/ - Literature

The Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, According to: Saint John.

>>13790171
Best of the old.
>>13790179
Best of the new.

Ecclesiastes is, but Job is in the top five for sure. John is also good as an earlier anon said.

>>13790179
Yuck. Mark all the way.

>>13790199
Just kek. Why anyone would chose Mark over Matthew unless to be a contrarian.

>>13790399
Mark is shorter and has a more interesting style. Less bullshit in Mark.

>>13790179
Based and Logos pilled

>>13790408
Based

>Job
>Ecclesiastes
>John

Definitely. All the reasons you could have for being an atheist are laid out right there by Job himself

>The Book of Job
>main character immediately becomes unemployed

>>13790198
I'm glad to have a fellow Ecclesiastes fan on board.

Why is there no third testament yet? Or a prequel testament?

>>13790399
>>13790408
Mark's also older.

>>13792980
Ironing.

>>13793003
Wait for Disney to buy the rights.

>>13793003
>what is the Quran?

Acts of the Apostles. As a Classicist and a Seminarian, it's an exciting read.

>>13790171
Book of Jonah

>>13790171
>Best book of the Bible
That would be Ecclesiastes, anon.

>>13790179
based

>>13793117
A fanfiction with a lot of fans.

>>13790171
Yes, reading Job really reassured me that the Christian god isn't a huge dick.

>JOB, I MADE THINGS! LETS SEE YOUR THINGS YOU PRESUMPTUOUS PIECE OF SHIT. HOW DARE YOU NOT GIVE ME CREDIT FOR BTFO YOUR FAMILY. BUT I GUESS I'M A NICE GUY SO HERE IS AN ENTIRELY NEW FAMILY!

>>13790179
OP is right on Old Testament, FP is right on the New Testament. Excellent thread

>>13793003
that's the book of mormon

The true patrician choices are Luke for NT and Samuel (I & II) for OT

>>13794025
That’s why fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

He will fuck you up.

Rank the gospels
>Matthew, Mark, Luke, John

>>13794052
>Raised Christian, no clue what it means, certainly not more important than parents
>Start questioning reality, Christian worldview doesn't explain how imma get this bread
>Realize getting bread is not the key to a fulfilling life, become blackpilled
>Continue questioning reality. Realize there is likely an all-powerful creator who controls everything. Become terrified
>Return to Christianity to make sense of this feeling. Turns out All-Powerful creator loves YOU for some reason despite ignoring him and looking for all explanations except His until now
Why is God so based?

>>13794050
the story of King David is so good

>>13794052
Seems more like a reason to be an antinatalist than anything.

>>13792998
Ecclesiastes is almost a meme here.

>>13794071
God is love and love is the most powerful force.

>>13790179
Based and fpbp, nothing beats the gospels

>>13790171
Job is nice too, gives insight into a lot of things, like how Satan is subordinate and had to get permission from God to torment Job. I like Genesis since it's packed with so much stuff.

>>13794150

>>13794214
not an argument

>>13794483
It is a polytheistic death cult.
Jesus’ love is *conditional* and therefore limited.
It is as rank as islam and all the rest of Abraham’s cult

>>13794504
You don’t have a good understanding of scripture or you were informed by Protestants. Can you name a better gift than free will?

>>13790171
Broke: Job and Ecclesiastes
Woke: Leviticus

>>13794561
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>13794214
> Love is peaceful
you need to get out more, anon

>>13794504
>Jesus’ love is *conditional* and therefore limited.
modern unconditional love is spelled indifference

>>13794214
Man, this dude really does show up every time Christianity is mentioned. Why are you so butthurt 24/7, buddy?

>>13794117
It's the part of the Bible with the most literary value. Very kino story

>>13796387
Because I care
Care enough to point out the evil of this terrible cult

>>13796404
But you sound like a broken record. You don't see me sounding like a broken record do you?

:3

>>13796387
>Why are you so butthurt 24/7
Trannyfly is a tranny and trannies love the darkness rather than the light.

>And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

>>13794025
>>13794052
Many people seem to have missed the point of the Book of Job.

The point isn't that God will fuck you up so you better fear him, or that he was in any way vindictive towards Job. The point is that God has been around forever and is literally perceiving every single thing at once, so the concept of divine justice is all-encompassing and completely alien from the human idea of justice. That's why he shows him Leviathan and Behemoth; to humans, they are gigantic monsters, but to Him, they're creations, pieces of the puzzle. In that way they're representative of chaos: sure it might step on your family, but not because God hates you, maybe it was just on its way to do something more important and you happened to be in the way.

Ultimately Job doesn't get an answer for his suffering and is not rewarded because of his repentance, but because of his acceptance that we are merely drops of water in the wake of God's path through the cosmic ocean. Once you accept that fact, and that you are bound to suffer because of it (even if God doesn't specifically hate you), you'll be a much happier person.

Once you start taking the holy texts allegorically and not literally they open up a whole new world of meaning.

>>13796589
imagine reading the bible and not taking it literally

>>13794025
It's a story dude

>>13796387
She has a lot of skin in the game

The point of Job is in the dialogue between Satan and God. Satan's viewpoint is that no human could possibly be good and God's viewpoint is that humans have the potential to be good. Apparently they've been having this debate for a while, and God uses Job to challenge Satan's point. Satan responds with the certainty that Job will crack if enough pressure is applied to him, implying that this would mean his righteousness is false.
It's all deeply symbolic of the human condition of course. Job is not a real person but the epitome of a spiritual man ("the greatest of the men of the east"). Job's wife is his own sense of intuition just as Eve was to Adam. Job's children are his construction of space and time and therefore reason (seven sons, each son had his day, three daughters).
Satan and God themselves are the offerers of the two principal points of view for humanity as they so often are in other texts. God's point of view ultimately leads to salvation. Satan's leads to nihilism.

>>13796589
but why would god hurt himself re: demorphism

>>13794059
John > Matthew > Luke > Mark

>>13790408
Based

>>13794214
pic not related stupid tranny

>>13796589
The book of job seems to me like a pretty solid basis for cosmic horror.

>>13798036
Honestly yes. It has giant monsters and human insignificance.

>>13797756
Why Mark is so underrated?

>>13799693
97% of the content in Mark is also found in either Matthew or Luke or both.It's ending(16:9-20) has been used to justify a lot of garbage theology (tongue-speaking and snake passing).
And the reason why people on here rate it lowly is probably because it is the least literate of the gospels in terms of writing style.