/lit/ - Literature

Wait till you get to the tabernacle

>>18910133
Try the Quran Pickthall translation.
https://www.islam101.com/quran/QTP/index.htm

>>18910133
Filtered
>>18910142
>he didn't enjoy the tabernacle dimensions, the instructions for the different sacrifices, and the priest's clothing
Pleb, I bet you didn't even finish Ezekiel's Temple Vision.

Read the book of Job

Start with the new testament.

>>18910133
Lol,imagine getting filtered by the most popular book on the planet.

>>18910133
Just read the greatest hits of the bible like Samson or David vs Goliath

>>18910133
Had the same issues with it when I was younger.
It’s trash

>>18910133
>people said it's good
They also tell you that you get sweet pie in the sky, if only you nod like a brainless oaf at everything they say and give yourself up to them as a slave... But just until you die, of course, then you'll he IN HEAVEEEEEEN FOREVAAAAH!
You have to be pretty stupid to listen to people like that

>>18910133
which translation?

>>18911913
I didn't follow Christian theology when that was my conception of it, either. Get off the banana dildo man videos, my friend.

>>18910133
>it's good
Only Christians spout this nonsense, it's popular because of the constant proselytism not because it's good. If you want something good and interesting there are way better books.

>>18910142
Was going to post the same thing. Almost didn't get past it.

>>18911908
Based Buttercute

>>18911953
This is incorrect plenty of OT stories and the gospel are important for the western canon. Nietzsche also said the OT was based. My guess is you guys aren't used to reading ancient literature.

>>18910133
I got as far as the 'begat's.

>>18910133
Yeah because you're probably reading it starting at the Pentateuch, right? Basically nothing before the gospels even matters beyond scholastic reasons.

>>18910133
don't believe anything /lit/ tells you

>>18911908
No one asked, Butterface. You disgusting pseud

>>18910133
Read city of god instead or summa theological.

I read the Pentateuch. How is the rest of it? I'm scared you start the history part and there's still do much left.

>>18912583
To*

>>18911908
>It's trash
>Posts schizo conspiracy theory
You are an idiot.

>>18912583
One third is boring as shit. One third is schizo ramblings. One third seems deep because you've just read two hundred pages of boring shit and schizo ramblings.

>>18910536
This

>>18910133
Read Judges, Samuel, and Kings for the action packed books.

>>18912549
For the record, you would not be better off reading these. Read the Catechism of the Catholic Church; it's concise and structured to teach the faith organically, with each topic building upon the other.
I'm not gonna say someone shouldn't read scripture, but there are are books that the ancient Israelites, traditionally, would not even attempt to read until they're 50. You need to have some patience and intellectual humility if you want the satisfaction of actually cracking the faith.

>>18911908
Holy Based Butters

>>18912670
>Just invest 10 years of your life into learning the faith, bro. That way, when you finally read our retarded texts, you'll have bought in too much to leave.

>>18910133
>mfw reading Genesis 38

>>18912599
>trying to salvage the Bible as not schizo-babble

Get in the box

New pagan server, no /pol/tards or trannies, people who are genuinely looking forward to learning and practicing ancient polytheist faiths are invited
/WdXxSkcg

>>18910133
>>18910142
>anime reaction images

>>18913106
election tourist check

>>18912967
Butters why do you subject yourself to the life of a tripfag? Just to suffer? Glutton for punishment?

>>18912967
Why would anyone need to salvage the bible? I also don't understand how Jesus existing or not is relevant to the literary merits of the Bible. You're a dumb tranny.

>>18913117
Lmao it's the seething tranny again

>>18913106
>complaining about amine on a belarusian ship-building forum
(Western Art is superior though, that's true)

>>18910133
It's not the Bible itself that is interesting, it's people's analyses and commentaries on it.
Like, Jacob Taubes' "The Political Theology of Paul", for example.

>>18913118
But…
Anonymous is suffering. I’m having a blast.

>>18912177
> OT stories and the gospel are important for the western canon.
Like Greek stories and mythos, doesn't mean it's good. One can take inspiration from shit and make something good of it. Like the Greeks.

>Nietzsche also said the OT was based.
Irrelevant.

>My guess is you guys aren't used to reading ancient literature.
My guess is you're a Christcuck.

>>18913106
You WILL enjoy the generic asian cartoons.
You WILL buy the chinese product

>>18910133
joshua is okay and I liked the song of psalms but yeah it reminds me of the quran its fucking drawl I cant fucking stand when both those books go on and on about god bro we get it god is cool

>>18912670
>>18912549
I don't think OP read the bible for "faith", he read it because you Jewish cocksuckers won't shut up about how good it is, when it's not something to be read for fun. It's torture the intellectual man, a non gripping, mind-numbing read.

>>18913296
>Live a good life
What is a "good life" exactly?

>>18913356
It's a meme, anon.

>>18913296
That’s Caracalla. Oddly enough though, he had to change his name because it was exactly Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
Caracalla would never say such a thing though

>>18913296
Psalms are a collection of poems. You're not meant to read it as a narrative.

>>18913356
Something that you can't get by worshiping Semitic Demon God.

>>18910133
Kings is fun
Job is a nice read

>>18912177
holy fuck please just go back to /pol/ or twitter you useless retard

>>18913278
>Like Greek stories and mythos, doesn't mean it's good.
filtered

>>18912177
you're only saying this because you're a bloom fanboy and we both know it

>>18913106

>>18911908
you dont hate Christianity because anything about it is "trash", you hate it precisely because it is morally good, and you are a depraved degenerate wallowing in the misery of your own sin, and the good of Christianity, you feel, is beyond your reach, so you hate it, because you will never have it or understand it (at least not for a loooong long time)

>>18910142
Just finished Exodus and the tabernacle stuff. Is Leviticus any better or does the Old Testament peak with Genesis?

>>18914270
It is a hodgepodge of different shit slapped together incomprehensibly. To worship it is to confuse yourself with contradictory lies. IT is degenerate.
I am merely deviant.

Sometimes i want to read it, like the way borges read those, write down all the interesting creature in it

>>18910163
Taliban hands typed this

>>18914270
>you hate it precisely because it is morally good
Because the bible adheres to the morality prescribed by the bible? Okay...

>>18914851
Butters, you're a woman who saw a vagina once 9 years ago and now try to define your life around that fact. Watching the same two foreign movies while dilating your asshole doesn't make you interesting. Find Christ.

>>18915589
Can someone give me a quick or extended rundown on the "butters" thing - also the dilation of the arsehole.

>>18915602
They know I’m a woman (but the newfags will call everyone tranny no matter what) so don’t buy into that shit.
Quick rundown: the board used to be very well read and teaming with trip/named users. I joined in after some stints on other boards. I suddenly felt normal, human, yet I remained anonymous. Now I’m the only one with a spine.

>>18915660
quite the heros journey..
Was hoping for something juicy, but thats more a reflection on me clearly.

Sauce?

>>18913278
Holy pseud

>>18910133
Keep reading.

>>18910133
i've started reading the bible, but don't tell me what happens at the end

>>18915998
jesus(pbuh) predicts the coming of muhammad(pbuh)

>>18910133
How the fuck do you not understand the significance of the Bible? How can you be ready for the Qur'an if you can't even accept the older Scripture?

>>18914500
Leviticus is a law book, probably the most boring part of the bible.
It gets good at Joshua, peaks with Job and Ecclesiastes and gets boring again when you reach the prophets.

>>18914270
>it is morally good
>the good of Christianity
>so you hate it, because you will never have it or understand it
Wow, sounds like a Rick & Morty fan.

>>18915751
>No! you don't understand the ancient scripture, you are the pseud!
KYS tranny.

>>18912967
So then Jesus wrote in the sand
"He who has taken his meds, cast the first post"

>>18915998
Jesus fucking dies, and then comes back

>>18917359
>comes back
WTF what kind of hack wrote this shit.

>>18914500
It is worth to reach Samson

>>18915660
Based tripfag. Your takes are very retarded though

>>18910133
What were the last 4 books you've read, anon?

>>18916109
The significance of the Bible largely doesn't relate to what's written in it.