/lit/ - Literature

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>>8594761
new testament philosophy is tip tier broo

It disintegrates in your hands.

>>8594761
This is a good version if you'd like to read the bible without the distractions of verse numbers and annotations (i.e. like prose fiction)

It will fail to hold up as prose fiction when you start to realize that it is the Truth

>>8594761
Not as "prose fiction" exactly, because there's a good chunk of it that's poetry, but it works really well as a mythic work alongside Homer, the Eddas, etc.

>>8594794
Yes, dear

>>8594761
I read it as a mix of myth and history, like the Iliad. Did this happen? Why did a man 2,500 years ago want to believe it did?

>>8594761
>>8594771
do you guys really think the whole Bible is 2,000+ pages of just shilling their brand of God?
There's 66 books in there. It covers such a wide spectrum of themes, history, poetry, philosophy, character stories. So much of it has literally nothing to do with religion, and the parts that do are only better for it.
If you don't think Job or Ecclesiastes or Proverbs or The Gospels hold up on their own, idk what to tell you.

>>8594833

>>8594761
Theology guy here. It's all bs.
I don't believe that a book that old has everything exactly like the first time it was written. We don't even know 100% what happened and we learn what we are told to learn. The history is manipulated.
The religion is trying to teach about being good and stuff, and that's ok, but how come is bad, for exemple, to be gay? It doesn't make sense why if you love another person of the same sex it's a sin. When you love you can't do anything bad, because love is good.
Not to mention the stories in the Old Testament. Geez. Those guys were crazy or they ate some mushrooms and wrote all that. There is a story about a man who had superpowers 'cause of his beard and without it he would be a ordinary man.
What I said it's not even 1% of the stuff written there.
Or everything's fake or the people who put all this info together manipulated the content making it by their rules and tradition, that's why everything good is considered a sin.
You shouldn't feel good, you should feel bad. Wtf is this for real?

>>8594921
Is this ironic?

>>8594921
God's ways are not man's ways.

>>8594929
No. Why?

>>8594833
Meme choices

>>8594930
We can modify the DNA with CRISPR and change the genetic structure of every living being on the planet and you're talking about God?

>>8594930
If God is love we just have to be good. We don't need churches, priests and all that. Just pray in your heart in peace and you'll be forgiven.

>>8594948
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church –
I keep it, staying at Home –
With a Bobolink for a Chorister –
And an Orchard, for a Dome –

Some keep the Sabbath in Surplice –
I, just wear my Wings –
And instead of tolling the Bell, for Church,
Our little Sexton – sings.

God preaches, a noted Clergyman –
And the sermon is never long,
So instead of getting to Heaven, at last –
I’m going, all along.

>>8594948
God is love, love is not God. And at any rate, that's not what God himself has said.

>>8594940
But we can't give them free will.

>>8594940
i'm not seeing your point

Free will doesn't exist.
You good = heaven.
You bad = hell.
If you're doing good you're rewarded and you must not do bad things unless you want to burn in hell for eternity just for what you did in your human life.
Doesn't make any sense.

>>8595126
See Calvinism I guess

>>8594961
One is Nine
Nine is Two
Holy God and Holy youth
Nine is God
God to come
God to breathe inside your lungs