Non-Christians-What is a Bible verse that you admire?

Question

I know that many of you despise the Bible ,but is there anything in there that you actually like?

Answer 1

I don't despise the bible, as long as it doesn't claim to be historically accurate.

.....The second is this, 'You shall love your neighbour as yourself.'....

If only more people (christians and non-christiaas alike) paid attention to this today.

Answer 2

I don't despise the Bible. It is the source of much wisdom and often beautiful poetry, such as the Song of Solomon. I don't believe that it is the divinely inspired word of God, however.

I read Shakespeare, and Donne, and Hopkins and find wisdom and beauty there as well.

I recently read "Why We Believe What We Believe," by Andrew Newberg and was moved to consider belief and spirituality in an entirely new light.

My favorite verse in the Bible is: This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Answer 3

I can only speak for Muslims - we do not despise the Bible. In fact it is a tenet of faith that we believe in the Holy Books.

A favorite verse - well I don't really have one but I remember one that I learned as a rap in Bible camp.
John 14:27
Pease I leave with you
My peace I give to you
Not as the world gives
Do I give to you.
Let not your hearts be troubled
and neither let them be afraid.

Answer 4

Sure, there are a few. They don't drown out the murder, incest, pain, anguish, empty promises and inane bronze age mythological stuff, but that doesn't mean it isn't without some merit. Hell, even "Freddy Got Fingered" got me to laugh a few times. We needen't ever throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Here are two for ya:

Ecclesiastes 9:5
"For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten." (Basically, there is not afterlife, not heaven, also see Ecclesiastes 3:19 and 9:10 to confirm this viewpoint.)

Ecclesiastes 8:15
"Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry"

I like Ecclesiastes quite a bit.

Answer 5

We as Muslims know the Gospel to be revelation from God, but the current Bible is not 100% representative of what was originally revealed.

But I like this verse.

Numbers 23 Verse 19

God is not a man, that he should lie,

Were waiting for Jesus (peace be upon him) as well

Answer 6

I don't despise the Bible, I despise those who misinterpret it and give it a literal meaning. My favorite verse is this one:

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Answer 7

I'd have to say this is a doozy

Kill Man, Woman, Infant

"Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ***." (I Samuel 15:2-3)


No matter how one can justify possible crimes from adults, suckling infants have no means of acting out crimes. And what evil against God could the animals have possibly performed? Only an evil entity could kill innocent infants and animals, no matter what their parents and owners may have done.

Answer 8

Mat 4:10

Answer 9

I don't despise the bible. I have studied it and read it at great length. I just don't believe all that is written in it.

One of my fav verses is from Song of Solomon my fav book in the bible.

"I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me. "
Song of Solomon Chapter 7 verse 10

Answer 10

"At Midnight the lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who sat in the dingeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock as well. Pharoh and all his official and all Egyptians got up during the night and there was loud wailing for there was not a house without someone dead."