Zone1 Favorite Book(s) of the Bible

[SweetSue92]

What are your favorite Book(s) of the Bible?

At one time I would have said "none of them". Then, maybe just a couple. Now it's "How to choose?". I can't take credit for growing to love the Bible. God did that!

Anyway, here are a few of my favorites in no particular order:

Genesis: The beginning of God's work in the world. Mysterious and exciting.

Proverbs: Proverbs is both wise and funny. The "sluggard" is the chief comedic character

Esther: A great book illustrating how God works behind the scenes. "If I perish, I perish"--a true queen.

Daniel: Prayers, competence and defiance, the Lion's Den. Apocalyptic language. It's great.

The Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John): Can't choose just one, really

Acts: Pentecost! Shipwrecks! Snake bites! Treachery and redemption!

(At this point I could pretty much list all the rest of the books, but I will end with):

Hebrews: This is a sermon and in many ways it's a good encapsulation of God's redemption story through the Old and New Testament.

Please share you favorite books below!

 

[Woodznutz]

Genesis, sets the table for the rest of the Bible.

 

[DudleySmith]

Job, Isaiah, Genesis, Exodus, in the OT, top 4, and for the NT John, Galatians, and Luke.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Sadly, the Book of Job. In New Testament it is the Gospel of Matthew.

 

[DudleySmith]

Sadly, the Book of Job. In New Testament it is the Gospel of Matthew.

Why 'sadly'? William Safire has an excellent exegesis of Job you might like.

The First Dissident: The Book of Job in Today's Politic…

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Everything in the Bible is meant to be relevant to people of all times and places. It succeeds pretty well at that.

 

[BULLDOG]

Song of Solomon has a pretty long section about blowjobs.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Song of Solomon has a pretty long section about blowjobs.

So that's your favourite book then? Telling...

 

[Meister]

Philippians
Judges, I enjoy the story of Gideon.

 

[mamooth]

Ruth.

"Whither thou goest, I will go."

Lovely little friendship story.

 

[SweetSue92]

Job, Isaiah, Genesis, Exodus, in the OT, top 4, and for the NT John, Galatians, and Luke.

I really had to consider adding Job to the list....

 

[SweetSue92]

Philippians
Judges, I enjoy the story of Gideon.

The "Books of History" are my most challenging by a longshot. Remembering which king and which prophet did what is always difficult for me.

Philippians is wonderful--did a study on it a few years ago.

 

[SweetSue92]

Ruth.

"Whither thou goest, I will go."

Lovely little friendship story.

Agreed, yes. And also, how God saves "outsiders"

 

[DudleySmith]

Hebrews: This is a sermon and in many ways it's a good encapsulation of God's redemption story through the Old and New Testament.

Hebrews is actually the only NT book with a questionable provenance, but they included it because it was indeed an excellent writing.

 

[BreezeWood]

The beginning of God's work in the world.

as an example of what jesus taught in the 1st century ...

Then God said, “Let us make life in our image, in our likeness, the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky the livestock and all the wild animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground.”

liberation theology flourish for so short a time -

then after those willing to die for the truth were all but removed - they wrote the moses based c-bible in the 4th century, abandoning the work of jesus altogether returning to the familiar corruption that has persisted from that time to the present day.

 

[SweetSue92]

Hebrews is actually the only NT book with a questionable provenance, but they included it because it was indeed an excellent writing.

It was a near thing for me to even name a NT book as favorite tbh