What's your most liked Biblical story?

Question

I have many:
Old Testament: Adam & Eve, Tower of Babel, Noah's Ark
New Testament: Jonah and the Whale, Anything having to do with Jesus and his miracles, Jesus' Crucifixion, and His Resurrection
--probably more I have forgotten...

Answer 1

His resurrection. There is no other God who have done that. He is the one who can save us. Eternity is a long time.

Answer 2

I would have to say when God told Noah to build the Ark. People did not believe Noah. They found out to late. Anything that has to do with Moses and the Ten Commandments.

New Testament would have to be all the miracles that Jesus did. When he was giving the sermon on the mount. His crucifixion..

It is hard to pick from the Bible because it is all truth. But I will have to say the story of Moses and Pharaoh was very interesting and very complete. Pharaoh learned but yet again it was to late. Especially when Moses held the rod in the air and God split the sea with just the breath of his nostril. my oh my!!!!

Sad to say many people will miss out on that. The first time I saw the ocean that was the first thing I saw with my minds eye. When non-believers look, all they see is the water. I saw much more than that. God bless............

Answer 3

If I consider the Bible as literature rather than for its theological content, most of its stories, looked at one way or another, tell of (1) a younger son who comes into his own, (2) a sterile (or virginal) woman who is granted a child, and/or (3) a stranger in a strange land, or someone who is treated as an outsider. There are four such stories that have always been my favorites--from childhood through a long adult life, two from the Hebrew scriptures and two from the Christian scriptures. (Actually, there are many others, including the book of Ruth, but they have already been mentioned.)

(1) Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. I borrow the title from the musical because it captures the drama, the humor, the suspense, the sensationalism, and the most important image of the story. A younger brother, the son of a sterile wife, becomes a (heroic!) stranger in a strange land.

(2) The Story of David. The first great novel, and still one of the greatest novels of all time: from David the shepherd lad (a youngest son) to David the renegade, pursued by King Saul, an outsider in his own land and among the Philistines, usurper on the throne, a conquering king, a rejected love and an illicit lover, a despot unjust to his loyal warrior, a sinner forgiven, a father rejected by his own sons (except the favored younger one, Solomon), an old man living past his time, warmed by the sensual Abishag, a poet and singer of psalms. Wow, what a great miniseries or eight-hour drama or classic opera that story still would be.

(3) The Good Samaritan. Jesus (treated as an outsider in his own land) communicates his message to his followers primarily through stories. This one is the classic story of the outsider. The victim of robbers is persecuted as if he were an alien, and he is succored and restored by someone whom his people considered an alien. So there are three outsiders in this multi-layered story: the victim, the Samaritan, and Jesus the storyteller.

(4) The Prodigal Son. This is the root story of the Judeo-Christian tradition (and many other folkloric traditions also). The younger son, gone wrong but eventually welcomed home. Just think of all the "prodigal" sons in the Bible: Cain, Shem/Ham/Japheth, Abram who leaves his family and lives most of his life as a homeless wanderer, Isaac/Ishmael (the younger son and the disfavored older brother), Jacob the runaway, Rachel (OK, some of them are daughters), Joseph/Benjamin the spoiled sons of Jacob/Rachel, Moses the abandoned son and inarticulate brother, Samson, Ruth the younger daughter-in-law, David, Solomon, etc., etc. The list goes on. Even Jesus is seen by his family as a "prodigal," forsaking his responsibility, wandering about the countryside, perhaps not in his right mind. And archetypally, Adam is the oldest son, Jesus the youngest, or the Abrahamic and Mosaic laws are the older brothers, Jesus the "anointed one" ultimately the favored Son of the Father. Notice that almost all of these "prodigal" younger brothers eventually become "outsiders," usually in their own land, and many of them are the promised children given to sterile or virginal women, and/or they become fathers of favored sons born to sterile or virginal women.

These are all great literature in the classic sense -- and they all have enduring theological signficance after all. But the story comes first. The Bible is an anthology of stories, all of them fascinating; but it turns out to be One Story. If only we readers, in all our diversity, could become as One!

Answer 4

under no circumstances seen any quite evidences, with or without citation marks. I heard they got here across a chariot wheel on the bottom of a few sea although. and anybody knows the in worry-free words way chariot wheels should be got here across on the bottom of a significant naval commerce direction is that if Pharaoh's military chasing down Moses is swallowed through the sea. That aside, i'm especially confident a minimum of the Ark of the covenant existed, and contained countless holy texts and relics. that's merely no one has got here across it yet. the different stuff, nah.

Answer 5

The story of the woman who rubbed perfume on the feet of Jesus, an act of selfless love. I also like the story of Peter walking on the water, what a guy, you can walk on water, Lord, I want to try it too. Then there is Israel struggling with GOd, why is it some people can look God in the face and say, I think I can take him? I love that.

Answer 6

The book of Job; not because of any particular message, but because this Jewish text says that Job (a non-Israelite from Uz) was the perfect follower of God. How egalitarian of the writers. It also says that Satan came "among" the "sons of God". (Job 1:6) More than one son of God? In the first six verses this book thus undermines Judaism and Christianity.

Answer 7

The whole book of Ruth. A very good story of love of a daughter in law for her mother in law.

Answer 8

I like the four Gospels because they tell the story of Jesus. I have read them all many times and I quote scripture from them often.

Answer 9

Numbers 31:17 - Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.18:But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

I think this one. It is one of the stories that helped me realize that the Bible god is the most evil character in all of fiction.

Answer 10

I like the story about Jesus in which he talks as an infant and tells people that he's a prophet.

Answer 11

The love story of Jacob and Rachel.