Forcing you to make it through the whole Bible in one year was this challenge my church's Bible study set for everyone that most people frankly didn't even bother to pretend not to cheat through Reading an individual book of the Bible *as a book*, straight through, is haaaard
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
I read the Bible straight through one summer at my grandparents house in Tulsa. More as a completionist achievement than anything else, but it comes in handy.
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Replying to @anthrodiva @arthur_affect and
Honestly, the surprising thing about the Bible is that it's often thoughtful, equivocal, and even profound. You just have to actually read it.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
I think it's a skeleton key to so much cultural and literary content
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Replying to @anthrodiva @mssilverstein and
The actual Bible is tremendously more interesting than the "Bible verses" that most evangelicals interact with the Bible as Although, I guess, it would have to be, because it's hard to imagine anything less interesting than those anodyne lists of pearls of wisdom
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Replying to @arthur_affect @anthrodiva and
There's still Proverbs for that
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Replying to @mssilverstein @anthrodiva and
The most interesting thing about actually reading all the Proverbs without a pastor looking over your shoulder is how many of them are genuinely fucked up by modern standards and how many of them just straight up don't make sense because they're from an ancient foreign culture
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Replying to @arthur_affect @anthrodiva and
Yeah - and I mean, ultimately it's a genre itself; bits of wisdom from a notably wise source (Solomon, for the most part here) to be memorized as much for their cleverness as their truth.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Or at least, a way to say something that's sort of common sense or conventional wisdom, but in a poetic and memorable way.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
And, I mean - Solomon is *not* God. There's no canonical reason to see his sayings (even if you accept the attribution) as infallible. They're just the words of someone worth listening to and considering.
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Ah, I see you haven't encountered the proof text of Biblical infallibility (2 Timothy 3:16-17, "All Scripture is God-breathed" used to forcefully argue that every verse of the Bible must be taken as the infallible Word of God
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Even the books that very clearly do not present themselves in this fashion at all, like Ecclesiastes And even though this prooftext is the weakest imaginable circular reasoning
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Like even if we take it as assumed that 2 Timothy was "God-breathed" and therefore can be used to prove all "Scripture" is God-breathed... that verse doesn't define "Scripture" at all or say what does and doesn't qualify
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