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I'm thinking about reading the Bible. I mean the Old Testament. It seems to have great stories... Like, I was reading about Job and it really caught my interest.

Have you ever read the Old Testament (or parts of it)? Is it worth reading?

>> No.996694

Jesus dies.
HAHAHA fucking ruined for ya.

>> No.996696

Sure is /b/ in here

>> No.996699

it's good

ecclesiastes is like taoist

psalms, beauty

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>>996694
>Old Testament
>Jesus

>> No.996705

>>996696
I was serious...

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>> No.996710

job is fucking boring. r

>> No.996711

>>996699
>ecclesiastes is like taoist

You either don't understand Ecclesiastes or you don't understand Taoism.

My guess? Both.

Uppity plebeian.

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>>996705
>Jack O'Neill: You read the bible Teal'c?
>Teal'c: It is a significant part of your western culture. Have you not read the bible O'Neill?

It's never too late to read the Bible. There is so much shit inspired or based on it, you have no idea. It's definitely a must read, and I'm an atheist.

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>> No.996724

Job is quite possibly the most misanthropic story ever written.

>> No.996737

>>996711

you would be wrong...

>> No.996744

Parts are good, but most of it is boring.

>> No.996747

>>996724
How so? His life went to shit and he kept on trucking.

>> No.996762

>>996737
Really. Enlighten us, please.

>> No.996777

>>996747
no....he didn't keep on trucking, he went back for more punishment from his dear god

>> No.996787

>>996762

both emphasis the cyclical/seasonal nature of life

discourage contentiousness, etc.

you should read them...

>> No.996796

>>996787
Do you have any idea how many things you could slap a "Taoist" label on, if you you followed that shaky logic and applied the term so loosely?

BROTIP: Understand Eastern religions before you namedrop them. Or at least namedrop something like Jainism, so that informed people are less likely to call you on your bullshit.

>> No.996802

>>996796

you're the one who's namedropping...(the other thread)

they are quite similar..i've read the tao ~ dozen times

you're a contentious, pretentious idiot

>> No.996827

I've read to Isaiah in the OT and some of the minor prophets. It's really repetitive.

>> No.996839

>>996802
I've read "The Wasteland" dozens of times. Doesn't mean I can make head or tail out of it. Your argument doesn't hold water.

Also, who's namedropping?

>> No.996873

Book of Job in a nutshell: Satan makes a bet with God that if He pisses in a man's face long enough, he'll renounce Him. God won the bet.

>> No.996883

>>996873

It's important to note that Satan in the old testament sense in not Satan in the modern sense.

>> No.996886

>>996839

reading something repeatedly leads to becoming familiar with it

becoming familiar with it leads to making heads or tails of it

talking about argument not holding water

you fail at logic

>> No.996901

>>996883

The book of Job is set in a time period before Satan/Lucifer/whatever was cast out of heaven.

>> No.996905

>>996886

No. Being familiar with something doesn't mean you understand it.

>> No.996915

>>996901

No. You are stupid. EVERYTHING after Genesis is after Satan getting tossed out. But the guy you quoted was right, the Jews view Satan differently than the Christians

>> No.996920

>>996883

This is very important. Do what I did, read the bible as if you know nothing about it! You will learn some cool shit, like how the church basically makes shit up to cause fear in the public, and have people run to them.

Having read the bible, I would like to think I can call myself Christian. I still follow science (not a creationist by any means) but I believe the morals taught in the book are still relevant today and the God figure is a dick in the old testament.

I just think it's a really bad-ass story if you read it for what it is.

>> No.996926

>>996905
This. What a blithering idiot.

Next he's going to come in and say the myth of Scylla and Charybdis is "LOL SO BUDDHIST" because the protagonist is cautioned to avoid two extremes. What am imbecile.

>> No.996924

>>996901

lolno

It's just that God gave Satan power in the world and lets him do mischief with God's permission.

>> No.996931

>>996915

So why does Satan return to heaven and the presence of God in Job 1:6 if he has been cast out already?

>> No.996934

>>996926
>>996905

not necessarily, but it helps

umad trip... haha

>> No.996938

>>996684

It's immensely interesting but also quite a hard read.

You need to know a lot more than just what is written specifically in there to even understand wtf everyone is talking about.

>> No.996946

>>996926
Wow, calm the fuck down, you fucking faggot, and go back to /mu/.

>> No.996989

>>996931

I'm not familiar enough with the Bible but it's probably some sort of parable with a message; the central point of which is the complete faith of Job in God.

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The old testament is 100% the opposite of the new one and sunday schools spend a lot of time explaining to little kids why the old guy changes so much in the middle of the book.
Christianity did well as long as 99.9% of christians couldn't read :)
But you should go with the jewish holy books. They are more classy and contain much more lulz. Really old-skool 'kill the other tribe' stuff. There's a reason why Alex in 'Clockwork Orange' lieked it so much.

>> No.997400

>>997395
What's a sunday school??

>> No.997408

Honestly, there's no reason not to read the bible, both testaments. Can you name a more important book in the history of Western Literature? I can't.

However, the best way to really learn it is to suffer through a lifetime of bible schooling and church, and grandmothers reprimanding you over the dinner table.

>> No.997427

>>996747

To elaborate on my point:

Satan (who in the Hebrew Scriptures is not God's enemy by any means; rather, just one among his servants) is given permission from On High to relentlessly destroy not only one man's property, but also his health, his livelihood, and the lives of his children. Illness after illness, death after death, meaningless pain after meaningless pain, Job continues to worship the God who damned him just to make a point.

The end of Job is essentially the end of 1984.