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What are your 3 favorite books from the Bible? I want the best it has to offer

>> No.20020816

>>20020811
You just can't have a top three. Samuel, Psalms, Job, Daniel, John, Revelations, etc. Too much greatness.

>> No.20020817

Genesis
John
Romans

>> No.20020820

>>20020811
Job, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon

>> No.20020855

>>20020811
>Old Testament
Genesis, Exodus, Job
>New Testament
Mark, Matthew, Luke

>> No.20020988

>>20020811
>old testament
Genesis, ecesiastes and job
>new testament
John, acts and revelation

>> No.20021049

>>20020811
Listen to Jordan B. Peterson's biblical series where he reads Genesis from a psychological perspective. My favorite is Cain and Abel. If you read it yourself it can appear to be a simple story but it has a profound depth to it that is often missed.

>> No.20021191

>>20020811
>Ecclesiastes
>Ecclesiastes
>Ecclesiastes
Nothing else resounded so much

>> No.20021226

>>20020855
This, fuck John - he's a larping fanfic faggot.

>> No.20021237

>>20021049
Dude everything Peterson said is like C-tier Biblical exegesis. Just pick up a study Bible or another scholarly work analysing the Bible instead, they'll provide Peterson's ideas with greater nuance and more accurate details/context, as well as several other alternative and/or complimentary readings.
Especially look at Jewish exegesis, those dudes have spent millenia masturbating over these writings.

>> No.20021248

>>20021191
Ecclesiastes is an absolute banger.

>> No.20021284

>>20021248
But is it also based and, dare I say it? Redlilled....

>> No.20021391
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>>20020811
The ones with the most sex in it

>> No.20021635

>>20021391
Genesis, Esther, and Ruth.

>> No.20021640

>>20020811
Isaiah, The Book of the Revelation of John, and Proverbs

>> No.20021645

Job, Psalms, and John.

>> No.20021739

>>20020811
Psalms, Proverbs, and Job.

>> No.20021840

1 Kings
2 Kings
John

>> No.20021841

>>20021237
any recommendations for good study bibles?

>> No.20021971

>>20020811
Genesis, Exodus, John, Romans. Can't keep it to three but I can get it to four.

>> No.20021982

Genesis, Ezekiel, John

>> No.20023043

>>20020811
post link to full video
i know it's miss alice

>> No.20023235

Acts
Acts
Acts

The main character died and all of the side characters and other believers gained powers. The villain named Saul undergone character development became the MC. I fucking love this part of the bible. Peter is also based here.

>> No.20023395

>>20020811
Kings II, Matthew, Revelation. all three put together explain the history, the essence, and the future of christendom in a nutshell.
>>20020820
that combines the bloomer, doomer, and coomer choice
>>20021840
judges and kings are best books of the OT

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20023496

apocryphon of john, hypostasis of the archons, sophia of jesus christ

>> No.20023522

>>20020811
Genesis, Isaiah, Matthew

>> No.20023535

>>20020811
matthew, proverbs, john

>> No.20023553

>>20023496
based, but apocryphs deserve their own thread

>> No.20023623

>>20020811
Job, Mark, Ecclesiastes

>> No.20023740

>>20021226
Justify!

>> No.20024283

>>20023623
based

>> No.20024450

>>20020811

Acts of Thomas
Acts of John

>> No.20024604

>>20020811
I like a Bible in its entirety. I wish there was more known of the gospels of Mary and Thomas, and that they were included in standard bibles.

I am currently reading KJV front-to-back, and am now at Ester 3. Esther 2 was a ride, I made some assumptions as to what Ahasuerus did with the virgins in his room but thought that I am not the one to make assumptions about it, as 'I've been around', as Tupac Shakur would say. The concluding part of Esther 2 bothered me a bit because killing people by hanging is against the Law of Moses.

This exemplifies a theme of the Bible: Rulers and people who forget founding laws and guidances. It's something every person can connect with on an individual level, because how many times do we have to be steered onto the correct path before we understand and can change our behaviours? In a certain sense, when you look at it from an evolutionary perspective, every time we abide to God's earliest laws we change in a way as to come closer to God, so it helps to keep reading Bibles, whichever version, and remind ourselves of the journey and what we can do to stay close to God.

Books/chapters of the Old Testament that draw my attention are currently Genesis and Exodus, because those contain the primary rules for diet and society. I like the New Testament in its entirety, I like reading.

I also like reading Bibles in different languages. The Dutch HSV has a book called 'Hooglied' which is about marriage, and is not found in the KJV. It is interesting to read for a not-married man, and provides hope for the future.