What is your favorite part of the Bible?

Question

I've read it. Don't like most of it. But the Beatitudes are one of my favorite works of literature all the same (I'm not a Christian). Earlier I asked what people's least favorite part was, and some said the whole thing. Come on guys, there is a good part in every book...So I felt it was only fair to ask this question.

Answer 1

the bit where the hero gets killed.

Answer 2

Parable of The Sower

Try reading another version.

The Holy Bible Douay-Rheims Version

With Challoner Revisions 1749-52
1899 Edition of the John Murphy Company

IMPRIMATUR:
James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899.

Pope Damasus assembled the first list of books of the Bible at the Roman Council in 382 A.D. He commissioned St. Jerome to translate the original Greek and Hebrew texts into Latin, which became known as the Latin Vulgate Bible and was declared by the Church to be the only authentic and official version, in 1546.

The DR New Testament was first published by the English College at Rheims in 1582 A.D. The DR Old Testament was first published by the English College at Douay in 1609 A.D. The first King James Version was not published until 1611. This online DRV contains all 73 books, including the seven Deutero-Canonical books (erroneously called Apocrypha by Protestants). These seven books were included in the 1611 KJV, but not in later KJV Bibles.

The whole Douay-Rheims Bible was revised and diligently compared with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749-1752 A.D. The notes included in the text were written by Dr. Challoner.

The DR Bible was photographically reproduced from the 1899 edition of the John Murphy Company, Baltimore, Maryland, by Tan Books in 1971. Eventually, this edition was optically scanned to produce a large text file which this publisher used for creating this website, with the aid of text-processing software.

One important goal of this project was to preserve the original text "as is", without making any changes in the wording, because the original text had the Imprimatur of James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, dated Sept 1st 1899.

The text file was checked quite thoroughly by software written by the publisher for punctuation errors and verses out of order. The index was humanly checked for misspelled words and the corrections were made to the text. However, some spelling errors may still be present in the text. Many verses were out of order in the original file. These have been corrected.

Every effort was made to ensure that this online version is an exact match to the original printed version. No words were added or ommitted from the text, except for correcting errors caused by the scanning process. No words were rearranged. No verse numbers were changed, except in the case of Psalm 9.

Psalm 9 originally contained 21 verses and there were 2 versions of Psalm 10, numbering 1-18 and 1-8. This obviously caused a conflict, so it was decided to make the first Psalm 10 as the last part of Psalm 9 and renumber the verses 22-39. This retains the same numbering as all the Douay Rheims. Note, in the Protestant Bibles the numbering of Psalms 10 through 146 differs by one.

Answer 3

The whole book is interesting. Whether you like it or not is irrelevant. It is The Book! Which other book can generate this much conversation. And even more interesting is most people have never read the whole thing even though they talk like experts about it. If you don't like it why discuss it at such length. Obviously it peaks your interest or you wouldn't be here discussing it.

Answer 4

Genesis 1:26.

"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."

I like it mainly for the fact that it says, "Let US make man in OUR image, after OUR likeness." That's very interesting to me. Christians will often say that it refers to the Trinity, but that can not be the case as this is the Old Testament which was recorded long before the time of Christ.

Answer 5

Well, i change my mind all the time. at the moment I'm really fixed on this verse...listen to song of Solomon8:7-

Many waters cannot quench love, nor will the rivers overflow it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, they surely would despise him.

(the hebrew is much more passionate. When I read that part in my language 'despise' is actually 'laughed at'.Only God can get that passionate about love!!)
wooowa, that's nice

Answer 6

Ecclesiastes is the greatest book of the Bible. Especially chapter four verses eight through eleven:

"There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail. Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?"

I'm a lonely guy and I'm looking for my fellow.

Answer 7

Well, I like the first chapter of Luke, but that's mainly because I always hear Linus in my head as I read it!

I like a lot of the psalms, the peaceful, praise-y one.

And I like parts of Isaiah. 55:12 is very powerful: "You shall go out with joy, and be led forth in peace, the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing and the trees of the fields shall clap their hands!" Very appealing imagery to a pagan like myself!

(I know, I know--even the devil can quote scripture! I've been told that before!)

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Answer 8

Proverbs 17:22: A merry heart doeth good like a medicine

Answer 9

Song of Songs......and I'm not even christian. But I have read the Bible and I must say that is a good book.
I guess I do like a good love story.

Answer 10

The gospels of Matthew,Mark, Luke and John. I love reading how Jesus spent His life on earth teaching the rest of us.

Answer 11

The word Whosoever.

It is the greatest thing God ever said to humanity. It means that no one is excluded. The only qualification is belief.