/lit/ - Literature

>>21623873
Most people will say Job or Ecclesiastes. Hard-core Christians will say one of the Gospels. Schizos will say Revelation.

Book of Sirach (prots don't have it for some odd reason)

Ecclesiastes

1 corinthians 13 or romans 8. paul was an incredible writer.

>>21623873
The Psalms of course!

If we're going by literature, the verses of the psalms and the song of songs are above the rest. Epistle to the Hebrews has the best prose, especially in Greek.

>>21623928
>prots don't have it for some odd reason
Jews don't have it in their canon, due to Akiva refusing it as inspired. It is against Pharisaic/rabbinic notions of the law, recognized wisdom as above torah, prepared the theory of hypostases, and had ethical advice not in line with later Judaism. Pr*ts are best goyim so they follow their masters (sometimes desperately invoking St Jerome).

>>>/x/
>>>/his/

>>21623873
All of it

>>21624309
Going with this.

Psalm 23

>>21623928
>>21624363
Tedious

>>21623873
John 8:7 is incredibly kino. The Pharisees tried to back Jesus into a moral corner by bringing an adulterous woman and asking whether to punish her or not, the catch being either answer would not suffice. Instead, Jesus shuts them down and they can't help but leave
>So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her

>There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
Ezekiel 23:20

THE HOLY BIBLE IS SACRED SCRIPTURE, NOT LITERATURE.

>>21623873
Job 38 (and 39 too, for its credit):

>Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;

13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.

15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.

16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?

17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

18 Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.

19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

20 That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?

21 Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?

22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,

23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

24 By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?

25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;

>>21625486
(cont.)

26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?

30 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?

33 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?

34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

35 Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go and say unto thee, Here we are?

36 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?

37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,

38 When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?

39 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

40 When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

41 Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.

>>21625486
>>21625489
Some context: Job laments his suffering to God after God allows satan to bring calamity down on him, and when Job cries out to God while on a ship at sea, God reproaches him from the clouds with this incredible speech.

>>21623873
1. Gospels ( matthew is my fav)
2. Genesis
3. Job
4. Ecclesiastes
5. Psalms

Im atheist btw

I'm reading Matthew for the first time because of /lit/.

I was driving today and passed an 18-wheeler. Written in dust, on the back was "Matthew 11: 28-30." This is the exact line I stopped at last night.

>>21625283
It IS literature; Sacred Scripture and literature are not mutually exclusive. It's because the Holy Bible is so profound that it is the highest echelon of literary achievement. Let Noah Webster illustrate exactly why the Bible is literature and why that's a good thing.

>>21623892
This is a good list and captures their demographics accurately too. But I have to shout out Lamentations and Psalms for poetry bros too. Best emotional content.
The Song of Songs is also underrated, but not really the best of anything. My favourite thing about it might be the Christian apologeticists' mental gymnastics to explain how when the song is talking about how great this girls' nipples are during sex, it's actually Christ talking about the Church somehow.

>>21623873
Jonah

>>21623873
It’s all greek to me.

>>21625523
Do you think God wrote that on the truck? What was He trying to say to you?

Psalm 51

>>21625920
Chapter 3 of Lamentations for that gear shift halfway through. Hits me like a ton of bricks. Also Psalm 73:16-17 in the KJV is similar.

>>21625992

>>21626155
KJV, for all its faults, definitely shines when you're looking for the beauty of words used. The NKJV has my favourite version of Ecclesiastes' repetitious phrase: "vanity of vanities, all is vanity under the sun."

>>21623873
Bible isn't literature

>>21625532
As a piece of literature Bible is barely coherent THOUGH

i just the bible start to finish (in audiobook format). i want to read of the books again namely, job, proverbs, the psalms, ecclesiastes. anything else i should add?

>>21626242
Should be vapour.

>>21623928
>>21624363
Sirach is wonderful

>>21623873
Why is this trash on top of the US constitution?

>>21625250
https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/09/12/thousands-of-donkey-penises-seized-in-smuggling-operation-between-nigeria-and-hong-kong
two continents in urgent need of depopulation (Central/South America too, unless they stop abusing the rain forests)

>>21623873

All of it is the Word of God, all of it is perfect and radiant above the fleeting words of mortal beings.

>>21623892
And patricians will say Isaiah

>>21624309
>MAGA hat
>picture of young self
>little flower
Based shelf