2007-08-23 10:45:20 · 39 answers · asked by jamoca 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't think so...it has love stories that are just beautiful....it has murder....it has wars...it has great stories of friendship...it has stories of hero's....of obsession...mystery....stories of greed and wonderful acts of kindness.......and of course the wonderful story of redemption by a Savior who loved us so much, he gave his life for us.
2007-08-23 10:54:47 · answer #1 · answered by dreamdress2 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well there's bound to be a lot who won't even compare it to literature, and some will probably even vent their vehement bitterness...but...
I've tried to hand out Karl Marx at the prisons...I keep getting asked for Bibles. (don't get it)
I've tried to hand out Sagan's "Cosmos" at the hospital, so they would finally understand, this is all there ever was, is, or will be....and I keep getting asked for Bibles...
But the one thing I really can't understand... is why over the decades, and over the centuries, from one continent to another, from one country to the next...there have been so many people willing to martyr themselves and be killed, just so they could either smuggle in the Bible, or have one for themselves.
Now...when folks start doing that for Shakespeare or any other author, then I'll start putting those writings on the same level as the Bible.
2007-08-23 23:49:25 · answer #2 · answered by Last Stand 2010 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Is there any book in literature that can rival the Bible?"
'Rival' the Bible in what way? As 'history,' oh, yes, many. As writing? Hamlet, Othello, Lear, Macbeth, The Tempest, and in our time, Moby Dick, Leaves of Grass, War and Peace, Miller's The Crucible. I speak of the KJV, which, put to pen during the era of Shakespeare and other stellar scribbling chaps of Elizabeth and James I's reigns, is a winning piece of literature, and no mistake. Its purpose was, and is today, to wrap the human mind in fear and dread and wonderment--as that, it does the job. That it is a 'best-seller' is irrelevant; so are any number of crime/detective novels, including eight written by...
2007-08-23 10:53:50 · answer #3 · answered by Yank 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wrong question...
Is there any book in literature that the bible can rival?
THAT is the question.
For positive answers...
Ooh... I think there's one that the bible rivals...
"All Tutus Should Be Pink" by Sheri Brownrigg. It has a graded reading level of 1.8.
I know... I know... it's a little higher than the bible, really... but I think with some effort, you might be able to understand it.
2007-08-23 11:07:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yep. Anything by William Shakespeare, William Blake, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, Jules Verne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sophocles, or heck even Piers Anthony, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Stephen King.
2007-08-23 10:56:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Rival the bible in what way?
There are holy books from every religion under the sun.
Are you forgetting the Koran, the Bhagavad Gita, the Talmud, the Guru Granth Sahib and so on...?
You've go to consider the billions who live in non-english speaking areas of the world when evaluating such things.
2007-08-23 11:00:59 · answer #6 · answered by C-Man 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Dr. Seuss
at least the good Dr's books contain some Truth and are realistic, unlike the bible BS. lies and deceptions.
Go beyond the bible and religion and DO this:
Create Your Relationship with Our Creator
and have UnConditional Love and Peace in Your Life.
2007-08-23 10:52:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Mahābhārata
1.8 million words
90,000 verses
Bhagavad Gita
Tao Te Ching
The Dhammapada
2007-08-23 10:53:46 · answer #8 · answered by Shawn B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Course In Miracles (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace). It must be the Foundation for Inner Peace version.
2007-08-23 10:50:32 · answer #9 · answered by Doris G 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
2007-08-23 10:49:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Well, not just one alone but I have a good collection of Superman comic books I would be willing to put to the test.
2007-08-23 10:56:36 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋