What is your favourite story in the bible? (excluding Jesus life) and why?

Question

Of course Jesus life is interesting. I always admired Paul. And David. Since both weren't perfect. They did many things wrong..and some right. Who or what story do you admire.

Answer 1

One of the top ones is Sampson. It's so interesting to me what God chose to tell us about. And it's so encouraging to me the kind of people He used to do amazing and inspiring things to better His kingdom: He used misfits and losers, people who are constantly messing up. That just rocks!
Reminds me of that Jerry Maguire quote: "I love him for the man he wants to be and I love him for the man he almost is. I love him!"
God sees what we're going to be and what we are to Him through Jesus and He has declared it worth His divine effort to love us.

Answer 2

I don't exactly have a favorite story but the story that caused the biggest impression on me is near the end of the book of Judges.

It starts in chapter 19 and goes all the way to the end.
It deals with a married couple.
After the wife commits adultery her husband goes after her. On there way back home she gets ganged raped and dies. He finds her body at the front door of where they where staying.
He cuts her body into 12 pieces and sends one piece to each Israelite tribe.
The tribes go into war against the tribe that is protecting the men who did this. They almost erase the tribe from existence.

They swear not to give there daughters to them in marriage, but then realize that this will cause them to disappear.
So they tell the men of the tribe of Benjamin (the tribe that lost the war) when ever you notice the other Israelites Having a party go there and kidnap the women you want as your wives.

The story ends with this statement." In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes."

I also like Ruth, Esther, David, and Songs of Solomon.
Yea I like Josephs story too.

Answer 3

Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Gospel in accordance to St Matthew. Made in 1964, by potential of the Italian Marxist. The communicate is regularly taken without delay from the Gospel, as Pasolini felt that "pictures might want to not in any respect attain the poetic heights of the textual content." it really is a stark movie, yet with sparkling-headed interpretative characteristics that stay away from the same old cliches. This Christ change right into a political animal, offended at social injustice. it really is a classic, b&w and a critics accepted.

Answer 4

This is a hard question to answer.
Able proved it was a heart condition that wins God's Favor. Enoch had the difficult job of witnessing all the evil in the world and preaching about it's destruction.
Noah, living in a wicked world of some 5 to 10,000 people and seeing his own brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews reject God and drown.
To focus on the positive side of all of this, There are some, not all, who sincerely seek out God's will, do it and are blessed for it.
So my favorite bible story must be of Jesus, sitting there in front of the crowd and starting out saying "Happy are those conscious of ther spiritual need, since the kingdom of the heavens belongs to them." Mathew 5:3-12

Answer 5

Prodigal son is my favorite.

If you Just read the parable of the prodigal son.
It tells us in no uncertain terms that God is unconditionally loving.

This goes against all of the nonsense about Judgment and punishment and vengeance disguised as justice in the rest of the bible.

If you actually get bible believer to read it, at first they repeat what they have been told to think and say that it is a story about forgiveness.

If you point out that nowhere in the story does Jesus ever say that the Father judged the son in any way there is a long silence.

A few have the presence of mind to say that you need to interpret it in the larger context of the bible. In other words you need to borrow some judgment from some other part of the bible to see it the way they want you to see it.

Meaning I assume that Jesus made a mistake and you need to correct it for him. I personally don't think Jesus made any mistakes.

I think it says exactly what he always intended for it to say. That God loves us unconditionally, no matter what we do or don't do.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 6

The Old Testament is a lurid tale of trickery, jealousy, lust, rape and murder with magic thrown in the mix for good measure. It's all there, a bestseller.

I like when Jacob dresses up in animal skins and tricks his father into believing he is the older brother. How hairy was that guy? Was he an ape?

Another good one is when Lot's wife is turned to salt for looking behind her as Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed. Lot then proceeds to procreate with his daughters. The Bible puts a psycho spin on these happenings as if the wife was a shrew and the daughters were sluts and poor Lot was just a victim of circumstance.

Finally the best one is when King David breaks almost every friggin commandment but God still loves him. No matter what this guy does, he is golden. Poor Lot's wife, turns her head, zap, salt. David, commits adultery, kills, covets neighbor's wife, etc. and God blesses him. Pretty twisted if you ask me.

Answer 7

The only story that really stuck with me after all these years is the one about Jesus driving the demons into the herd of swine and then they run off the cliff. As a child (well, I still am) I was an animal lover and that story really upset me.

Answer 8

I love the story of Joseph and his brothers. This is such a great story about a son, who belonged to many brothers, brothers that were jealous of their fathers love towards Joseph. Joseph was the last son from his father, and this is why his father loved him so much and Joseph was also the second son to his mother who also bore his full brother Benjamin, the rest of the brothers were half brothers from another mother. Joseph receives prophetic dreams in symbols that show him, he will rule over his brothers, this is thought of as arrogance, and makes his brothers hate him more, but in actuality it is his destiny. A destiny that is to serve as a awakening for people of all cultures and unite two lands, Canaan and Egypt. Long story short, Joseph is sold into slavery by his brothers, his father thinks Joseph was eaten by a wild beast. Joseph uses his dreams to foretell the future to Egypt's Pharaoh and later the Pharaoh makes Joseph king of Egypt, and Joseph saves Canaan where his family, brothers and fathers live, despite the fact that they forsaken him,he shows them, mercy,love and forgiveness, he is humble at all times, and never abused his power, only submitted to gods will.

Answer 9

I'm with you Susie, Paul is a fascinating person to me. But my absolutely favorite story in the bible is when Jesus forgave the woman who was about to be stoned because she had been caught in the act of adultery. I loved the way he protected this woman, and with a simple statement, caused those who were about to kill her to look to their own sins instead. I am a woman who has been forgiven much, and I relate to this story and thank our merciful God for his forgiveness and restoration.

Answer 10

I love the Story about David remembering his friendship with Jonathan, after Jonathan had died and David had become king. He remembered his friendship by honoring his son with a set at the royal table. Jonathan's son name was Mephibosheth. He was crippled. Here is an portion from the story in 2 Sam. 9:3-8:

3 The king asked, “Is there no one still left of the house of Saul to whom I can show God’s kindness?”

Ziba answered the king, “There is still a son of Jonathan; he is crippled in both feet.”

4 “Where is he?” the king asked.

Ziba answered, “He is at the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar.”

5 So King David had him brought from Lo Debar, from the house of Makir son of Ammiel.

6 When Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he bowed down to pay him honor.

David said, “Mephibosheth!”

“Your servant,” he replied.

7 “Don’t be afraid,” David said to him, “for I will surely show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.”

8 Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should notice a dead dog like me?”


What a beautiful story or mercy, grace, commitment, and love.