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/hersEven if you don't believe the bible is literally true, do you still admire it as a piece of literature?
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.
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
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.
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';.
I admire the sheer volume of it.
Yes, I do.
Yes. Despite the hate it sometimes causes, there are some good stories there.
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.
Alot of mythology is well written.
No, I don't admire it at all.
Not really. There's no plot... there's a metric ton of filler (like genealogies... ech), and all the characters are painfully one-dimensional.
Oh, yes. Especially Proverbs, some of the Psalms, and the Song of Solomon. I love the parts where Wisdom is personified as female.
i like shakespeare better
Retarded Klingon children have written more meaningful literature.
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