Even if you don't believe the bible is literally true, do you still admire it as a piece of literature?

Im a Muslim but I admire the King James Bible for the beauty of its language. Many Arab speaking Christians/Non-Muslims feel the same about the Quran though they dont believe in it.

Whoever insults anothers religion belittles his/her own and only a person devoid of spiritually doesnt find beauty in other religions even if he believes the whole truth is only in his/hers

I would, because its just such an amazing piece of ancient literature and history! Nothing ever, has compared to it. Just a little bit of interesting info...Most everyone is familiar with Shakespeare, correct? Well, did you know, that there is not ONE complete manuscript of his stories, plays, or poems, all in one piece, anywhere? They had to "fill" in the missing parts, for what they thought he "meant".... That is not uncommon, as original manuscripts are hard to come by. The bible, in all its separate books, has SO many manuscripts, and was written SO much earlier than Shakespeare. Some are totally complete, and readable. Amazing! Notice, that no one doubts shakespeare's existence either, like they do Jesus. Just pointing some things out.

As an example of Elizabethan poetry, I agree the bible has few equals. Some of the language is beautiful. I still don't believe any of it, but there are some nice passages. It's a wonderful book of stories. But I would never read it to the kids.

Oh, yes. Especially Proverbs, some of the Psalms, and the Song of Solomon. I love the parts where Wisdom is personified as female.

Not really. There's no plot... there's a metric ton of filler (like genealogies... ech), and all the characters are painfully one-dimensional.

Yes. Despite the hate it sometimes causes, there are some good stories there.

Alot of mythology is well written.

I believe it is literally true....and so did Jesus...He believed the Old Testament literally.



"Search the scriptures ; for in them you believe you have eternal life and they are that which testifies of me"- Jesus

night and day according to illumination doe no longer require a sunlight or a moon, it in basic terms demands gentle and darkness. There are different assets of sunshine (as stipulated in Genesis a million:3).. while the sunlight gadgets i do no longer in basic terms sit down around in darkness mourning the sunlight hours, as you curiously do, I turn a swap and function ligth -from yet another source than the sunlight. The earth is unquestionably fixed in a sequence trajectory around the sunlight - you should call it an orbit. as a result those scriptures are literally ultimate - and hundreds of years in the previous modern technological awareness figured this (hint: If something does not make experience, pull out a lexicon seem up the Hebrew or Greek observe - as a result fixed exhibits unwavering and could only as easly stick to to course or trajectory as place. Aristotles regulation of non-contradiction - if there's a denotation that doesn't create a contradiction this is the denotation that ought to be used. you have 2 distinctive statements right here so i'll handle each and each in my opinion Daniel exhibits the tree is seen to the ends of the earth - (eretz) Earth (Eretz) can advise planet, or only undeniable dirt or dry land.. in case you utilize Planet with the aid of fact the definition you have a factor, yet Aristotles rules of non-contradiction require which you utilize a definition that doesn't create a conflict if one in each and every of those definition exists. Dry land is a valid defintion of eretz and could consult with the coastline.. meaning the tree grew to become into seen from any spot on the continent which may be on one edge of the earth. Your 2nd reference indciartes devil Took Jesus to a extreme mountain and confirmed him each and all of the kingdoms of the earth... as we talk which would be impossible as you're saying yet interior the 1st century each and all of the kingdoms of the earth existed interior a similar hemisphere and ought to certainly be considered from a extreme hight on a sparkling day. You recent an impressive occasion of the equivocation fallacy - insisting on one definition of a observe or word that creates a contradiction while different denotations exist that don't create the issue. for sure logical fallacies teach no longer something different than stupidity or ones skill to be illogical!

i like shakespeare better

I admire the sheer volume of it.

it has some good thoughts in there, and some sound advice. Most can be found elsewhere and better. I think the negativity it invokes, the exclusivity it fosters, and the outright absurdities that it propogates as dogma are much more harmful than the few good parts are helpful.
In its defense, that's true of most "holy books".

how can you call the bible true. when it was writen 500 years after all this stuff happened. they dotn kid when they say faith is blind lol.

No, I don't admire it at all.

Yes, I do.

Retarded Klingon children have written more meaningful literature.