Now that the dust has settled, what did /lit/ think of the Holy Bible?
'the voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me unto the ground' the prose is so good
Genesis 15:9 - The Lord answered, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a she-goat, three years old, a ram three years old, a turtle dove and a young pigeon.”
Was God just a temperamental artist?
>>8266124
I tried reading the old testament, forced myself to get through like a quarter of it, just couldn't go on. It's so fucking boring. And I don't remember a thing I read.
I'm gonna try the Koran. Maybe things will actually happen.
>>8266540
I promise you, you will find the Koran ten times as boring. Also
>Finding the bible boring
>>8266539
god is a creator. creator-creative.
god made us in his own image, meaning we are all artists, or if you take the opposite, we made god as an artist prone to old testament-level mood swings as artists often do. parallel noah's ark and the Great Flood with james joyce's attempted burning of 'stephen hero', which later became portrait of the artist. an artistic creation that lost favour with its own creator, forcing him to destroy it in benevolence, for its own wellbeing. it survives through its own merit, noah and joyce's prose being entities worth saving, worth pulling from the flames and the towering seas.
didn't like the constant naming 'and the sons of ham were thus...' for so long.
More like The Okay Book.
What are the best written and most interesting parts of the bible?
Started at Genesis and it was awful. Couldn't bother to read more.
I mostly wanted to read the bible to better understand my Christian friends. Is there a part of the bible particularly useful for that?
>>8267653
>I mostly wanted to read the bible to better understand my Christian friends.
I wouldn't start with the Bible then if that were my goal. I recommend instead Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton, Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, or any of the Gospels.
Shit.
