What is your favorite book of the Bible?

Esther

If for whatever reason I was in some apocolyptic situation that involved every Bible everywhere to explode into a ball of flames and I could only save one of the 66 books I would probably choose Ecclesiastes

why?

Well it's a letter written by King Solomon to his countless sons (he had a thousand wives and concubines) about how to live. He figured most of his kids would be rambunctious shitheads so he passed on a short book of knowledge he felt was most important.

It's not a perfect synecdoche of the Bible, but it's all a man needs in life.

sounds like i want to be king soloman, a thousand wives and concubines you say?

also can post some of you favorites?

haha yeah. Solomon is definitely the most interesting figure in the Bible imo. Not just within the bible, but in other writings.

This is mine

Romans, the Gospel of John

>Ecclesiastes

/thread

The Gospel of John is pure beauty.

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Nahum (this one was major to me, I think it's very underrated)
Micah
Ezekiel
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Song of Songs
Psalms
Gospel of John
Galatians
James
Jude
Apocalypse

No, it has a great opening, but then turns into a disjointed hodgepodge.

The one where God happens

Revelation. But I'm a guy obsessed with snails and human skulls.

>favorite OT book
Psalms
>favorite NT book
the Gospel of John

>John turns into a disjointed hodgepodge
(I'm not the user you're responding to, but) John is far more structured and cohesive than you realize. Part of it has to do with how the stages of action are presented, which has mostly to do with discrete levels of conflict. There's also attention to chronology (moreso than in the Synopticvs), as well as to geographic progression from Galilee to Samaria and then to Judea. There's also the prominent use of the number seven in the book, in particular with the number of miracles (σημεῖα signs) depicted (along with the specifics of what they signified, and so on).

Wasn't actually written by King Solomon, stylistic analysis shows it to be written during the Hellenistic period.

I really like Ecclesiastes, but I struggle to see how it fits into the bible given how starkly different its message is.

Song of Songs. I have fapped to it.

Songs of Solomon
Revelations

I'm not even a christfag, the books are just nice to pick up and read.

Looking to buy my first bible. Which version should I get? Don't want anything too plebeian.

I have a bad experience with extremist religion because I was born and raised in a cult that abused kids back in the day. But proverbs, psalms, the book of job, and Ecclesiastes really resonate with me.

King James. It is quite Patrician. Not a perfect translation, but the language is stellar.

the part with evidence

I don't get you. Some books of the bible are poetic and aphoristic and you're asking for evidence that they provide?

Job
“Who is this that obscures my plans
with words without knowledge?
3 Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.
4 “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone—
7 while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels[a] shouted for joy?
8 “Who shut up the sea behind doors
when it burst forth from the womb,
9 when I made the clouds its garment
and wrapped it in thick darkness,
10 when I fixed limits for it
and set its doors and bars in place,
11 when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;
here is where your proud waves halt’?
12 “Have you ever given orders to the morning,
or shown the dawn its place,
13 that it might take the earth by the edges
and shake the wicked out of it?
14 The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;
its features stand out like those of a garment.
15 The wicked are denied their light,
and their upraised arm is broken.
16 “Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea
or walked in the recesses of the deep?
17 Have the gates of death been shown to you?
Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?
18 Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?
Tell me, if you know all this.
19 “What is the way to the abode of light?
And where does darkness reside?
20 Can you take them to their places?
Do you know the paths to their dwellings?
21 Surely you know, for you were already born!
You have lived so many years!
22 “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow
or seen the storehouses of the hail,
23 which I reserve for times of trouble,
for days of war and battle?
24 What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed,
or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?
25 Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain,
and a path for the thunderstorm,
26 to water a land where no one lives,
an uninhabited desert,
27 to satisfy a desolate wasteland
and make it sprout with grass?
28 Does the rain have a father?
Who fathers the drops of dew?
29 From whose womb comes the ice?
Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens
30 when the waters become hard as stone,
when the surface of the deep is frozen?
31 “Can you bind the chains[b] of the Pleiades?
Can you loosen Orion’s belt?
32 Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons[c]
or lead out the Bear[d] with its cubs?
33 Do you know the laws of the heavens?
Can you set up God’s[e] dominion over the earth?
34 “Can you raise your voice to the clouds
and cover yourself with a flood of water?
35 Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?
Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

Acts of the Apostles or Book of Revelation.

Probably Psalms.