The Holy Bible From Memory
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Old Testament 11 Genesis 28 Exodus 41 Leviticus 44 Numbers 45 Deuteronomy 45 Joshua 45 Judges 46 Ruth 47 1 Kings 47 2 Kings 48 1 Samuel 49 2 Samuel 49 1 Chronicles 49 2 Chronicles 49 Ezra 50 Nehemiah 51 Esther 54 Job 60 Psalms 63 Proverbs
64 Ecclesiastes 67 Song of Songs 67 Isaiah 68 Jeremiah 68 Lamentations 68 Ezekiel 68 Daniel 68 Hosea 69 Joel 69 Amos 69 Obadiah 69 Jonah 69 Micah 70 Nahum 70 Habakkuk 70 Haggai 71 Zechariah 71 Malachi
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New Testament 75 Matthew 79 Mark 80 Luke 83 John 89 Acts 90 Romans 92 1 Corinthians 93 2 Corinthians 96 Galatians 96 Ephesians 97 Philippians 97 Colossians 97 1 Thessalonians 97 2 Thessalonians 98 1 Timothy 98 2 Timothy 98 Titus 98 Philemon 98 Hebrews 98 James
99 1 Peter 99 2 Peter 100 1 John 100 2 John 100 3 John 101 Jude 102 Revelations
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Genesis
Creation 1 In the beginning,
God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Let us make man in our image. Creation. God made everything. 3 He let there be light. God created the earth in seven days. Water on the first day, and then land and trees on the second day, light on the third day, and eventually he created living things and human on the last day. I’m sure there were more things he created in-between. 4 Let there be light! He done
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and thought it was good. 5 On the fourth day he made the sun. 6 Heaven and earth, water and land, beasts, humans men and women. 7 First day God created earth and sixth day God created animals and humans. Seventh day he rested. 8 First day was light. Second day was water. Third day was earth… so on. People on the seventh and last day? 9 God made the world in 7 days. The first day he created light. The last day he created man. 10 God created the heaven and the
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earth. He let there be light. God created living animals. He created Adam and Eve. 11 On the first day, God created light and it was good. On the second day, God created water? On the third day, God created land? On the fourth day, God created flora. On the fifth day, God probably created beast. On the sixth day, God created man— meant to complete the world.1 All of that was Good. On the seventh day, God rested, and so we should rest on the seventh day.2
Void and darkness filled the deep and God said “Let there be light .” and it was good. On the second day, God created wate On the third day, God created land? On the fourth day, God created the sun, moon and s.
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On the fifth day, God probably created beas . On the sixth day, God created ma –meant to complete the world (“tikkun olam”). All of that was Good. On the seventh day, God rested the seventh day; the Sabbath. FROM MEMORY 13 GENESIS
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12 It was not good that man should be alone... 13 Adam was the first man and from his rib, he begot Eve. They lived in bliss in Eden, until Eve met a snake who told her to eat from the tree of knowledge. She fed Adam the fruit and they found themselves naked, and were ashamed. God banished them from the Garden of Eden. 14 “From the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat.” The serpent said to her, you will not surely die, but will become like God “The woman you gave me gave it to me.”
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The Fall of Man 16 In the garden of Eden, Adam
and Eve were the only humans. They got hungry so they saw an apple tree. The snake tricked them and made eve eat the apple and there was sin. 17 Adam and eve ate that apple and got snaked over by that sneaky snake and the lesson is don’t trust snakes. 18 God created Adam with his own ribs, and then created Eve with Adam’s rib. They lived in paradise together very innocently, doing nothing and no harm. However, there was a snake demon that lived in an apple tree, and would tempt Eve to eat the apple everyday. Eventually she did and Adam tried to stop her but they were exiled from the Garden because Eve committed the original sin by eating the apple. So they weren’t in paradise anymore and now live with sin and they eventually made babies and gave birth to humanity. 19 Eve gave fruit to Adam and it was there first “sin”. They were kicked out of Eden. 20 The Garden of Eden was where Adam and Eve caused the first Sin that made God mad. There was a serpent that lured Eve into eating an apple, from the Tree of Knowledge, which 1 Aka everyday earth.
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God had shunned them from. Eve ate it and God was so angry he kicked both Adam and Eve out of the Garden into a less ethereal place.1 21 God created Adam and put them in the Garden of Eden. God told them everything they needed was in the Garden and that they could have whatever they wanted - however they could not eat from the tree with the snake. They lived happily and naked in the garden until Eve was tempted to eat the apple of “good and evil.” The snake said it would give her more knowledge. She ate it and then convinced Adam to as well. Once they ate it they became ashamed of their nakedness and hid from god. They then tried covering their naked bodies. God noticed their shame and banished them from the garden for eating from the tree. 22 God created the earth, but there was not yet any human to till the soil. So God created Adam out of the dust of the earth, and breathed life into him. God placed Adam in the garden, and said to Adam: “All of the trees of the garden are yours. You may eat of any tree of the garden except the tree of life, for on the day that you eat of its fruit you shall die.” Then God said, “It is not good for man
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to be alone. I will create a helper for him.” And so God created the animals, and Adam named them. But none of them were a helper to Adam. So God caused the man to fall asleep, and while he was sleeping he took his rib and fashioned a woman. And when Adam awoke he said: “bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh! I will call you Eve, for from you comes life.” And they were in the Garden, and they were naked and unafraid. 23 There was a guy named Adam and he was made from a rib I think. God gave him a garden but told him not to eat from this
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one tree because it’s evil, and he said “OK”. Adam was lonely so Eve was made to be his wife. They talk to an evil snake that convinces them to eat from the tree and they do. God was angry so he punished humans and made their life hard.
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Who told you that you were naked?
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in the Garden of Eden where they were told to enjoy themselves, but under no circumstances were they allowed to eat from the apple tree. Eve was persuaded by a snake to take a bite anyways, and God got really angry, so he punished humans and made their life hard. 26 Now the serpent was the craftiest of all the animals in the garden. And he said to the woman, “Has God told said that you may not eat of the fruit of the trees?” And the woman said, “of all the trees in the garden we may eat, except for the tree of the knowledge; for if we eat of it we shall die.” And the serpent said to her: “You shall not die! God knows that if you eat of it you shall be like him, knowing the difference between good and evil. Take and see that the fruit is good.” And the woman took the fruit, and saw that it was good, and ate of it, and gave it to Adam and he ate of it. And they saw that they were naked, and they were ashamed and make clothes out of leaves. God came strolling through the Garden, and called 1 His first humans.
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to Adam and said “Where are you?” And Adam said, “We heard you calling and we hid, for we were naked, and we were ashamed.” And God said “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat the fruit of the tree from which I forbid you?” And Adam said, “that woman you gave me handed me the fruit, and I ate it.” 27 And then God cursed the serpent, saying that he would slither in the dust and that there would be enmity between him and the woman’s offspring, and that they would crush him under their heel. 28 He cursed the woman, saying that her desire would be for her husband, and he would rule over her, and that she would experience pangs2 in childbirth. And he cursed the man, saying that he would now bring food from the earth by the sweat of his brow. 29 Eve was created out of Adam’s rib. They were told that they had dominion over the animals and everything was available for their sustenance. They were told to not eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge. A snake tempted Eve, telling her
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that it was okay to eat from the tree. Eve convinced Adam to eat with her, and they ate from the tree. When they ate, they realized their nakedness. God was angry at them and pun-
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ished them by banishing them from the garden. Eve was punished by having to feel the pain of childbirth. 30 And God decided they couldn’t stay in the Garden, or else they’d eat
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from the fruit of the tree of Life. So then they were kicked out of Eden and an angel guarded the entrance with a fiery sword. 31 Adam and Eve ate the apple and therefore could see the sin in the world. After awhile the sin became so bad that God decided to destroy the whole earth by a flood. Noah and his family along with two animals of every a species on earth sailed in the boat Noah had built. 32 Man goes around naming everything, but he has no partner and is lonely so God puts him to sleep and creates Eve from Adam’s rib. Thus we are called woman, because out of man we become women. He makes this whole lovely garden and says to Adam and Eve, “this whole thing is yours! Just don’t eat from that one delicious looking tree over there.” So, naturally, the serpent tempts Eve,
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she eats an apple, shares it with Adam, and both their eyes are opened and they see that they are naked. This is all a metaphor for sex, which they engaged in before they were ready. Out of shame they clothe themselves in fig leaves, which are the scratchiest kind of leaves they could have chosen from. When God comes strolling through the garden and sees them clothed in this manner, he knows something is up. He banishes Adam and Eve from the garden and curses women with extra painful child birth3 and our lives have been harder ever since. 33 All of those things. Plus, There’s Jacob wrestling with God all night on a mountain. Genesis ends in a time of drought when Joseph, now adviser to the Pharaoh, lures all his family into bondage in Egypt to save them from starvation.
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Cain and Abel 34 They left Eden and begot Cain and Abel. I believe that Cain killed Abel. 35 And their children Cain and able — Cain kills Able. 36“Am I my brother’s keeper?”
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Sodom and Gomorrah
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35 God is Vengeful: Sodom and Gomorrah— A woman turned around and turned into a pillar of salt.1 37 As a sacrifice to God, Abraham was circumcised at 100 years old? 38 He married Sarah, who could not get pregnant and when God told her she would conceive at age 90, she laughed at him. “Shall I indeed bear a child when I am old?” 39 Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness. 40 She had one sons; Isaac and Ishmael was Abraham’s other wife’s son. Isaac stole the birthright from Ishmael, the first-born. 41 Questioning Abraham’s faith, God asked Abraham to sacrifice his favorite son, and because his faith was strong he went to the mountain to obey the Lord. Just as he was about to kill Isaac, an angel was sent down to stop him. Abraham sacrificed a ram instead. 42 Isaac begot Jacob. Jacob begot Israel, I believe. Israel wrested with something.
43 Noah had a premonition that a gigantic flood was to envelope the earth, so he gathered his family and two of each species of animal and boarded an ark that he built. 44 There was too much wickedness in the world and a vengeful God in anger decided to destroy his creation1, so he spoke to Noah saying, “Build an ark and take two of every animal on the ark.” He did and the earth flooded and all was destroyed. He was in the ark for a very specific number of days and a dove carrying an olive branch let Noah know that it was safe to unload. He repopulated the earth. Pretty sure this is around where two daughters got their father to get them pregnant so they could repopulate the earth. 45 The world was going to be flooded so God told Noah to build an ark and put two of every living creature so they could re-populate the world... Eventually it flooded and people who didn’t listen died and they ended up in a new world. 46 Promise of the rainbow.
1 Old Testament God was a way angrier God than New Testament God. Very turning people into pillars of salt and flooding the world.
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Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors 47 Israel had
twelve sons and two daughters. The youngest was Joseph who was probably the son of his favorite wife, and the brothers knew this and sold him into slavery out of jealousy. Years later, after Joseph had become royalty, his brother came to his kingdom as a beggar. Joseph showed mercy on him but I believe fucked with him in some way and told him what happened. He visited his father before he died. 48 Jacob, Grandson of Abraham, patriarch of Israel had 12 sons. Joseph was one of the youngest, and the first son of his favorite wife. Joseph got special treatment from his father, including the coat of many colors, which made his older brothers
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jealous. He had visions in dreams of the stars and the sun and moon bowing down to him, and his brothers resented him for it. The older brothers conspired to kill him, and bring the coat back to Jacob saying a wild animal had killed him, but at the last minute some slave traders were passing by and they instead sold him. Through good character and the blessing of God, he won favor with the Egyptian, Potiphar, who purchased him, and was given much authority. When Potiphar’s wife tried to sleep with Joseph he refused, and in retaliation she claimed he had attacked her, causing him to be thrown into prison. While in prison he became famous among the prisoners for interpreting dreams, and one of his fellow prisoners —a palace servant whose
dream Joseph had interpreted— was released and returned to Pharaoh’s entourage. When Pharaoh had troubling dreams, the servant remembered Joseph and recommended him. He interpreted the dreams to mean a coming famine, and was put in charge of managing preparations for stockpiling food. When the famine came Egypt was saved, and his brothers came from their county to buy food. They were completely surprised by him, and he called his entire family to come live in Egypt, fulfilling his prophetic dreams that his father, mother, and brothers would bow down to him.
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8 The Jews got what they wanted 9 Something about Jerusalem that probably led to all the conflict going on now in the Middle East.
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Exedous Oppression of the Israelites
1 The Hebrews were slaves in
the land of Egypt. Pharaoh's daughter found infant Moshe in the reeds in the Nile river and adopted him as her own. When he learned that he was the child of a Hebrew family who was sent away in hopes of protection1. Moses turned aside to see this sight, the bush burned, but it was not consumed. “Take off your shoes, for the ground on which you stand is holy.” 2 Abraham2 saw a burning bush in Egypt or something and then God promised him land and then split the sea in half so his people could travel elsewhere. 3 Fearing that a Jewish baby boy will lead a slave rebellion in Egypt, Pharaoh orders that all Jewish baby boys be murdered as soon as they are born. Two very noble midwives rescue Moses and help his mother and sister hide him. Eventually, they have to put him in a
basket and send him down the river where Pharaoh’s daughter sees him and adopts him. Moses’ sister follows and offers to help Pharaoh’s daughter find a nursemaid for the baby, she brings forward her own mother, and thus Moses’ mother was allowed to nurse him. When he grows up he kills a guard and goes into exile, where he gets married and finds God in a burning bush. Empowered by the Holy Spirit Moses returns to Egypt to rain fire on the people there and slaughter their first born and chant “Let my people go!” over and over. The Lord continues to harden Pharaoh’s heart and shit really goes down. The Hebrew people slaughter a lamb, have a feast, and march out of town. Moses parts the Red Sea, they’ve made it to safety, and then they wander in the desert for forty years eating manna from Heaven and bitching about harsh nomadic living conditions.
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Pharaoh Plagues 2 He asked Pharoah to “let my people go”. He asked seven times and after each time, a new plague was placed on the Egyptian people by God1 3 After the death of the Egyptian first-born killed Pharaoh's son, he freed the Hebrews.2 The Hebrews had to leave quickly so Pharaoh would not change his mind and their bread did not have time to rise. God split the Dead Sea so the Hebrews could cross. When Pharaoh's troops rushed in, the water filled again and they drowned. They wandered in the desert for forty years and ate mana. Miriam led the women. Moshe became frustrated and hit a rock. God was angry that he lost his temper and forbid him to go into the Land of Milk and Honey—Jerusalem. 4 After forty years of wandering in the desert in sukkot, Moses received the Ten Commandments.
Moses Parting the Red Sea 5 Moses splitting the river or sea in half so him and his people can walk. 6 The story
of Moses freeing the slaves from Egypt and traveling the desert for 40 years. 7 The Jews got what they wanted 8 Something about Jerusalem that probably led to all the conflict going on now in the Middle East. 10 Moses led the slaves out of Egypt and was given the 10 commandments on Mt. Sinai. They wandered for 40 years before arriving at Canaan. 11 God made a covenant3 with Abraham that was passed down to Isaac, then Jacob, then all 12 of Jacob’s sons. Jacob’s second youngest, Joseph, was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt and then rose to prominence.
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Forty Days in the Wilderness
The Golden Calf
12 He broke the first tablets? God gave them to him again. 13 Moses, who lived to age 125 stayed behind and the Hebrews settled in the Land of Israel.
14 The people
1 To prevent the Angel of Death from taking the first born of the Hebrews, we were ordered to mark our door-posts with blood so he would “pass over” the homes.
started worshiping a Golden Calf, Moses got angry and made them stop.
2 Lice, blood water, frogs, locusts, cow disease…
3 Numerous descendants, the promise of land, etc.
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15 Flash forward to a new Pharaoh who doesn’t know this awesome family, and all of these folks1 are enslaved. Moses is born, raised in the royal household, has a coming of age crisis in which he kills an Egyptian, runs away, encounters God in a burning bush, and returns to Egypt to let his people go. Twelve plagues later, they all
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cross the Red Sea and then follow a pillar of cloud by day and fire by night. After 40 years of wandering in the desert, challenging Moses’ leadership, complaining, receiving the laws on Sinai, and warring with peoples along the way, Moses dies and the people entire the land while committing genocide.
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16 I am the Lord your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
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The Ten Commandments 16 I am the Lord your God, who
brought you up from the land of Egypt. 17 Thou shall not steal. 18 Children obey your parents in the Lord. You shall have no other gods before me. 19 Do not take the name of the Lord in vain. Do not make for yourself any graven images. Honor your father and mother. Do not commit adultery. Do not covet.
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Do not bear false witness. Do not steal. Do not murder. 20 1 Love thy neighbor, not commit adultery, not steal, not kill, not have another God... 21 Do not believe other God. Do not muder. Commit adultery. 22 1. I am the Lord your God. 2. You shall have no other Gods before me. 3. Do not take the name of your God in vain. 4. Honor the Sabbath, and keep it holy. 5. Honor thy mother and father. 6. Do not steal. 7. Do not
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covet your neighbor’s wife. 8. Do not murder. 9. Do not bear false witness. 10. Do not build idols. 23 Thou shalt not: 1) Kill 2) Take the Lord’s name in vain 3) Covet your neighbor’s wife 24 Thou shalt not cheat. Thou shalt not covet another man’s wife. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness. 25 Thou shalt not create false idols. Thou shalt not be envious. Thou shall not murder. Thou shall not worship icons. Thou shall honor thy mother and father. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife. Thou shalt have no Gods before me. 26 Thou Shalt Not Take Thy Lord’s Name in Vain. 27 Though1 Shalt Bless the Sabbath and Keep It Holy. Thou Shalt Not Make a Likeness of Me. Thou Shalt Respect Your Father and Mother. Thou Shalt Not Murder. 1 Thou.
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Thou Shalt Not Steal. Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s House. Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery. Though Shalt Not Bear False Witness. 28 Thou Shalt Not Steal, Kill, Covet, worship any other gods, take the Lord’s name in vain. Some interesting laws in Leviticus would include a prohibition on eating seafood that has no scales and a prohibition on mixing different kinds of fabric. Oh! And if a kid talks back to his parents, they must be killed by stoning. 29 Thou shall not murder. Thou shall not worship icons. Thou shall honor thy mother and father. Thou shall have no other gods before me. 30 There shalt be no god besides me. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not take what is not yours. Thou shalt own a weapon. Thou shalt love your mother and father.
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26 Thou shall not worship icons.
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Leviticus*† 1 Man shall not lie with man or it is an abomination. 2 Leave the corners of your field for the poor. 3 You can only eat land animals that chew cud and have split hooves. No birds of prey. Fish must have scales and fins. 4 For those outside of the land of Israel, they must leave an extra day or the holiday. 5 I try not to subject myself to this much hypocrisy and hostility. Long story short, don’t fuck your mother. * Lots of names.
† A lot of insane rules.
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eye an e; *†
† Makes the world go blind.
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Numbers*†
*Lots of Numbers † Moses Struck the Rock
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JUDGES
Deuteronomy Destruction of Idols 1 There were many pagan
worshipers and Abraham, the son of a pagan statue-maker was told by God that there is only one true God and so he destroyed all of the statues in anger. 2 Hear O Israel; Adonai is God; Adonai is one. Hear this o Israel, the Lord your God is one, and you shall love the Lord with all your heart, all
your mind, all your soul, and all your strength. 3 Inscribe them on the door-posts of your house and talk about them when you rise and when you lie down, teach them to your children. 4 Jubilee year all debts are forgiven. 5 Certain fabrics cannot be mixed. 6 Don’t mix wool and polyester, or you shall be stoned to death. 7 Justice, justice you shall pursue!
Joshua Judges 1 Deborah was a judge—something with a tree 2 Samson and Delilah 3 I only know this because it's a song by Regina Spektor. Samson had long blond hair and Delilah cut it, I think. 4 The Levite’s concubine 5 Deborah, Jael, and Barak
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Ruth 1 Your God will be my God, your people my people, and where you go, I will go also. 2 Entreat me not to depart from you. Where you go, I will go, and your God will be my God. 3 I know quite literally nothing about Ruth, except for the fact that she bears one of the few biblical names I actually like and would name a child after, mostly because I find the idea of a person younger than 85 having the name Ruth hilarious.
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an named Naomi who had a husband and two sons. Both of her sons grew up and were married, before tragedy struck and Ruth and her daughters-in-law were widowed. Naomi tries to send the girls back to their father’s homes and one does go home, but Ruth vows to stay with Naomi. Trials ensue but eventually Ruth makes a fortuitous marriage and Naomi is well provided for in her old age.
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2 SAMUEL
1 Samuel David and Goliath 1 David and Goliath– David was a little man, Goliath was a big man, he cut his head off. 2 David beat Goliath with a
slingshot. He was the underdog- no one thought he would win. 3 David being chosen as king over his brothers. 4 Saul being crazy jealous of David. 5 Samuel being called by God.
2 Samuel 1 David’s Lament over Absalom 2 Bathsheba 3 Michal’s Reproach of David for Dancing 4 Nathan to David in reference to his parable about the man with plenty takes someone else’s little pet lamb: “You are the man”
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1 Kings The Two Women Who Claimed One Baby 1 King David’s wisdom and
sound judgment has often been illustrated through the story of his ruling when two women came to him, claiming to be the mother of the same baby. Both women were ready to accept the wise king’s decision regarding the baby’s mother, yet when King David demanded the baby be cut in half so the women could share the child, one woman passionately objected, asking that the baby be given whole to the other woman rather
than be cut in half. David determined the other woman, who voiced no objections regarding the king’s decision to cut the baby in half, to be lying, as only the true mother would care more for the baby’s own well-being than for her possession of it. The baby was then returned to its rightful mother. The story’s popularity has trickled down so far into American culture, that it was even featured on an episode of Recess. 2 Jeroboam, the Northern Kingdom, and His CalvesKing David
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Nehemiah 1 Long after Jerusalem is
sacked by the Babylonians, the Jewish people still long for their homeland and sing songs of lament. Nehemiah is cunning and diplomatic and gets permission to rebuild the city. Jewish people from all over come back to help rebuild. Once they all get back on their feet it’s time for a religious holiday. Everyone tithes to the temple and
then gathers round to hear a reading of the scripture. When reading about all the old laws, and the punishments for breaking them, they realize that their Babylonian exile was divine retribution for them disobeying the commandments laid out in their texts. The Jewish people vow to learn from this experience and never sin against God again.
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Esther 1 King Ahashveros ruled Shushan1 with his wife Vashti who was a feminist and he didn’t like her mouth. He divorced her and set up a pageant in his kingdom to find a new wife. Esther, cousin of Mordecai, was very beautiful and the king fell in love with her. “I would give you half of my palace if you asked” he said to her. Mordechai and other Jews were tormented by the King’s right-hand man, Hamen who wore a three-cornered hat. He wanted to expel us from the kingdom. Mordechai learned of this plan, so he told Esther to 1 Current day Iran.
do something about it. Ahashveros didn’t know that she was Jewish. She got him drunk and asked him to come to a feast she would set up and to bring Hamen. At the feast, she confessed her Judaism and told the King of Hamen’s plan. He remembered from his journal that Mordechai was a good man and I believe that he hung Haman. 2 Sons of 3 David are again
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facing extermination! King Xerxes1 throws a great party and requests his wife come and entertain his guests. The Queen says she is throwing a party of her own and his guests should leave the King’s party and come to hers. The King has her beheaded and seeks a new wife. Mordecai, a Jew and a diplomat, thwarts a plot against the King’s life and it gets recorded in the history books. He also enters his orphan ward, Esther, into competition for the Kings hand, advising her not to let anybody know she is Jewish. Ester is the total package: a drop dead bombshell of a woman with an intelligent mind and a demure, queen-like behavior. Xerxes falls head over heels and marries her, never caring that her whole history and back story is shadowy. Around this time, Haman, a noble man and right hand to the King, starts demanding that everybody fall down and worship him, Haman, and his little penis. Mordecai refuses to do this because he is Jewish and only worships the one true God2. Haman is outraged that Mordecai won’t kiss his ring and starts plotting a legal genocide against the Jews. Mordecai finds out about this intended slaugh1 Goes by a different name in the book.
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ter and goes into mourning, covering himself in dirt, tearing out his hair, and walking around in front of the capital crying and thrashing about. Word gets through to Ester, who devises a plan to save her people. Ester throws a bomb ass party and only invites the King and Haman. The party rages for days and the King cannot believe his luck at marrying such an amazing woman. He tells her he will give her anything she wants. She says “hmmm...later” and keeps pushing him off until he absolutely cannot contain himself and just HAS to give Ester ANYTHING she wants. SO Ester educates her husband on Haman’s plan to eradicate the Jews on this upcoming holiday and requests that it be stopped. The King also learns about how Mordecai thwarted a plan to assassinate him and promotes Mordecai to Haman’s position. Mordecai changes the law to state that on the holiday where the genocide is set to take place, the Jewish people have the right to defend themselves against attackers. On the day of the attack the Jewish people defend themselves by slaughtering all men who were about to attack them, and all of these men’s sons, including Haman and his
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many sons, but did not touch their women or children, and did not plunder their wealth. It is very important to note that the Jewish people were only trying to defend themselves, not pillage, rape, and steal. Ester and the King lived happily ever after and Mordecai served his king well in his new position. It is worth noting that this is the only book in the Bible where God is never mentioned and is not an active character, and yet, you can see how he was there the whole time. It is from this book that we get the line: “Perhaps you have achieved royal dignity for a time such as this.�
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Job Job's Suffering 1 About suffering
with a different type of God. 2 Had a really rough life to prove his faith. 3 The story of a man who had his whole life taken away from him but he never lost faith in god and then he had everything and then some given back to him for his faith 4 Job was God fearing, and a very fortunate man by the standards of his time, he had huge amounts of cattle, sheep, and possessions, and many wives and children. The devil came to God, claiming that people only chose God when times are good, and that when the good things are stripped away, they are selfish and will only blame God. Using Job as an
example, they put it to the test. Over a period of time Job was successively stripped of all of his wealth, family, and friends, in the end reduced to the rags of poverty, and covered in boils. When people passed by they wondered what he had done to anger God so much, and no one could come up with an answer. Even Job’s friends tried to convince Job to repent for anything he may have done to anger God and bring such bad luck upon himself. However, unlike the post-modern man, Job refused to put God on trial and question his authority, despite fully knowing that he had done nothing in his life to bring such misfortune upon himself. Throughout Job’s trials and trib-
ulations, he sought only to plead his case before God, to know that God was still watching over him. After seven years of trials, Job never blamed God, and stood as an example that there is more to faith than worldly possessions and dreams. When God finally speaks to Job, he does not side with Job’s friends, prominent religious leaders who repeatedly told Job to repent and ask God’s forgiveness, and yet he does not provide an answer to Job’s suffering. God’s works remain a mystery and Job is content to leave them as such, reassured by God’s renewed presence in his life. God restored Job’s wealth to many times what it had been.
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The devil came to God, claiming that people only chose God when times are good, and that when the good things are stripped away, they are selfish and will only blame God.
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I am haunted & inspired by the moment in The Book of Job when God reveals the universe in all its appearing & disappearing, a near-infinite vortex of creation & destruction — and all at once — what I now call The Kaleidoscope of Simultaneity — to this ethically superior1 man. God, it seems, had overwhelmingly impress Job after gambling with his life — and ruining it — with Satan, who bet Job would curse him if he lost his family, farm & health, 1 To God.
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but he remained ethical and true. When Job sees the universe in its simultaneity & sublimity 1 The Bible reads: “Job put his hand over his mouth in awe”. I’ve spent the last two decades writing a book called Noticing and Awe, and finished it just this year.2
2 Which also happens to Arjuna via Krishna in The Bhagavad Gita. 3 http://noticingandawe.blogspot.com/
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Psalms 1 150 chap-
ters Beautiful. Poems. 2 Many poems used musically in prayer. 3 Do not walk in the way of the wicked, stand… or sit in the seat of scoffers 4 Ahsrey yoshevey vetecha. Od l’chaleluha selah. 5 Why are you in despair, O my soul, and why have you become disturbed within me; hope in God for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance and my God.
6 Knit you together in your mother’s
womb I am fearfully and wonderfully made. 7 Seek peace and pursue it. 8 He will give his angels charge concerning you, lest you strike your foot against a stone. 9 The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He restores my soul. He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His namesake. Though I walk through the valley of the Shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever. 10 Thy word I have hidden in my heart that I might not sin against thee. 11 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. 12 God is good. 13 A list of poems by a variety of authors all attributed to King David.
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Proverbs 1 Trust in the Lord with all
your heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight. 2 Above all else, guard your heart, for out of it flows the well springs of life. 3 Spare the rod, spoil the child. 4 There is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
5 Charm is deceitful and
beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord shall be praised. 6 As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool returns to his folly. 7 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill, 8 May my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I do not consider Jerusalem as my highest joy.
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Eccles 1 Vanity, vanity, everything is vanity. 2 Two are better than one, for if one falls down the other can help him up. Pity the man who falls and there is no one to help him. A strand of three chords is not easily broken. 3 There is a time for everything
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siastes under the sun; a time to laugh and a time to cry. A time for peace and a time for war. A time to scatter stones and a time to gather them. A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing. A time to kill and a time to heal.
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Song of Songs 1 Love songs from Solomon. 2 I am my beloved, my beloved is mine. 3 I admire the breasts of my sister.
Isaiah 1 Come let us reason togeth-
er, though your sins are like scarlet, they will be made whiter than snow. 2 Isaiah: “Who will go for us?” and I said, “Here I am, send me’ 3 They will run and not be weary, they will walk and not faint 4 Can a mother forget her nursing child?
Even if she could forget you, I would not forget you declares the Lord. 5 My ways are not your ways. 6 Arise, shine, for your light has come, the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. 7 Like a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so the Lord rejoices over you. 8 Leviathan
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Jeremiah* Lamentations Ezekiel Daniel Hosea
* I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to bring you a hope and a future.
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Joel Amos Obediah Jonah* Micah†
* Jonah getting swallowed into the belly of a whale.
† What does the Lord require of you but act justly, love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
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Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai
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Zechariah* Malachai
* The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty warrior. He will rejoice over you with singing, He will be quiet in his love.
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Matthew
Jesus’ Life From the Perspective of Matthew 1 Jesus life: born in
Bethlehem, raised in Nazareth, there’s a story of him ditching his parents while in Jerusalem to listen to the Pharisees debate. According to the text, they were blown away by the kid’s wisdom. He drops off the map for all his teens and twenties, shows up at 30 years old and starts his ministry. Then he heals a ton of people, pisses off the establishment, they kill him, he raises from the dead 3 days later and heads back
up to heaven in a cloud about a month after that. Boom. There’s a lot of details I’m leaving out. 2 Jesus lived a perfect, sinless life in order to take the sins of the world for the people of earth as he died on the cross. He performed many miracles during his life on earth: turning water into wine, healing the sick and blind, showing compassion to the poor and unworthy. He is to Christians the example of pure and true love. 3 Jesus was born in the nativity to Mary and Joseph. Mary was impregnated by God and Jesus is the son of God.
4 The meek shall
inherit the earth. I am willing, be healed. You have heard that it was said that you should not commit adultery, but I say to you everyone who looks on a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 5 Turn the other cheek. 6 Preached that the wealthy should take care of the poor. 7 He performed miracles and was betrayed by one of his apostles. The Romans forced him to carry his cross and then was nailed to it and burned at the stake. 8 He died for humanity’s sins.
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The Lord’s Prayer 8 Our father who art in
heaven. Hallowd be thy name. Thy kingdom come. They will be done. On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 9 The disciples asked him, “teach us to pray” Jesus answered them and said, “Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be they name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on the earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who have sinned against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the power, and the glory, forever, Amen. 10 No one can serve two masters, either he will love one and hate the other or… you cannot serve God and mammon. 11 Do unto other as you would have
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them do unto you. 12 Jesus curing leprosy with a touch of His hand 13 Who do people say that I am? . . . Who do you say that I am? Peter said, Thou art the Christ, the son of God. 14 The kingdom of God is like… 15 Before the cock crows, you will have denied me three times. 16 Jerusalem Jerusalem, how often I have wanted to take you under my wing, as a hen with her chicks, but you was unwilling. 17 Jesus said, “Eli Eli lamosabachthani [sp]”Father, Father, why have you forsaken me” 18 Go therefore and make disciples of all kinds, baptizing them in the name of Jesus Christ, teaching them to obey all things I have commanded you. 19 Go ye therefore into all the world, teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you and baptizing them in the name of the Father the son and the Holy Spirit and lo I am with you, even until the end of the age. 20 Jesus Walking on Water 21 John the Baptist.
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Mark Jesus’ Life From the Perspective of Mark 1 I am not worthy to untie his sandal. 2 Whoever
wishes to be first shall be last and the last shall be first. 3 Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? And he said to him, “go sell all you have and give it to the poor,” He went away sad, because he had much wealth. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Love thy neighbor. 5 Love thy neighbor as thyself. 6 Let the little children come to me. 7 Turn the other cheek.
4 Thou shall lie within the
beasts of the dormant mother; for they is the reason she bequeath the gift upon they neighbor’s teat. 5 Soft is the burden of our father’s gracious seed, and his hand thy tickles unsurmountable heat upon the riches of thy neighbor’s home. 6 Do not slup the wine upon evil’s hand’s special number, for thine’s kingdom of splendor with tarnish the reputation of one thousand feral cat’s bosom. 7 Thine’s meat spectacle will want not when thine’s slit tariff pays upon the one that strikes the hardest.
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Luke The Annunciation 1 Gabriel the Angel 2 An angle1 told Mary that she had Jesus in her belly, gave birth on Christmas. Mary got miraculously pregnant without the act of intercourse. 3 Christmas, Mary got shot by an angel. 4 Mary had a little lamb
The Birth of Jesus 5 And it came about in those
days, while Cirinius that shepherds were in the fields watching their flocks by night, and lo… 6 Mary and Joseph were a couple in some town, but did not have a child. 7 Mary was a virgin, so god made her pregnant with his child, Jesus Christ. There were three wise men who saw the stars align above a town and decided to head there. Three wise men followed a star and came to baby Jesus with Gifts.2 Mary eventually had to give birth, so she and Joseph went to Bethlehem to give birth or something. The inn or hotel 1 Angel.
or motel or whatever was full, so they put them in the stable. She eventually gave birth in said stable. He was born in small barn. Three wise men give her some gifts. 7 Mary immaculately conceived the baby Jesus through the delivery of a message by the Angel Gabriel. She told her husband, Joseph. She gave birth in a manger outside of Jerusalem. Three kings delivered gifts to the baby Jesus. Jesus was born in a manger because Mary/Joseph couldn’t find a place to stay. Once she gave birth to him she laid him down in swaddling cloth and put him in a bucket of hay. Some wisemen and Shepherds saw a star or something and followed it baring gifts to him. 8 There are, like, three versions of this. Two different genealogies. The total cast includes: Herod, who was governor at the time, had a vision of this child, and commanded the census. Later, he’s the reason the holy family flees to Egypt. Mary, who is supposedly a virgin - her
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fiancée, Joseph - oh! And her cousin, Elizabeth, who gives birth to John the Baptist - some wise men, who come to visit an innkeeper who lets them stay in the stable - some shepherds who come to visit - some angels, who tell the shepherds what’s going on 9 Mary had a virgin birth in a manger. Kings came and gave gifts? to his life.
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The Death of Jesus 13 Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me, but not my will, but yours be done. 14 Jesus said, “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do” 15 “Today, you will be with me in paradise” 16 If you are the Son of God, save yourself and us.
Jesus’ Teachings 10 Who among you, if your son asked you for a loaf of bread would give him a stone, or if he asked for a fish would give him a scorpion. So if you being evil know how to give good gifts how much more your father in heaven will. 11 Take heart, you are worth more than many sparrows. 12 And which of you by worrying can add a single day to your life?
2 Perhaps the star Persian sages followed to the ‘nativity’ revealed not virgin birth but the light of creativity?
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Jesus’ Miracles and Teachings 1 If you had known
who it is with whom you were speaking, you would have asked, and I would have given you living water. 2 The true worshippers will worship in spirit and in truth. 3 You study the scriptures because in them you think you have life, and yet these testify of me. 4 Feeding the Five Thousand 5 The Woman at the Well 6 I am the bread of life… And he said to them, one of you will betray me. Jesus asked them, “Are you too
going to go away?” Peter answered, “To whom else would we go, you have the words of life.” 7 Jesus and the Whore 8 Let he who cast the first stone… 9 The thief comes to kill steal and destroy, but I have come that they may have life and have it to the full. 10 Jesus wept. 11 And if I be lifted up, I will draw all men to myself. 12 I am the way the truth and the life, no one comes to the father except by me. He, who loves me, keeps my commands. 13 I am the vine, you are the branches, every
branch that abides in me will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. I am the vine you’re the branches.
The Death of Jesus 14 They nailed him
on the cross, and he died for our sins. 15 Jesus and his disciples were at the last supper, and one of his disciples, Judas, was betraying him. He kissed Jesus and then somehow Jesus ended up being crucified. 16 This is a very long story. Jesus enters Jerusalem and is hailed
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Judas leaves to betray him. Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsamanee, everyone keeps falling asleep, and then he’s arrested. Pilate tries to have a criminal executed instead, but the crowd picks Jesus to die. So he does. It’s told in great detail. He’s finally pierced through the side. 17 He was given up to the Romans and crucified. That’s all I know. 18 Someone betrayed Jesus, I don’t know who, then he got crucified and they put vinegar somewhere and thorns on his head. 19 Judas betrayed Jesus and Jesus went to die on the cross the next day. 20 He was betrayed by Judas and crucified. 21 God explained to the apostles that this would be their last supper before he died. Judas betrayed God by saying he didn’t know Jesus. 22 As they crucified him he said “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.” 23 He was betrayed by Judas and Pontious Pilot sentenced him to be crucified. 24 He died horribly. 25 Peter carrying Jesus’ cross. 26 The crowd called out, “Crucify Him, Crucify Him.” 27 I thirst. 28 It is finished. 29 Peter, do you love
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me? You know that I love you, Lord. Peter,do you love me? You know all things, Lord, you know that I love you. He asked him again, Peter, do you love me. Peter was grieved that he asked a third time. He said feed my sheep. 30 Jesus had been dropping hints about this for a while but nobody got it. He raised Lazarus from the dead and people didn’t like that and started plotting his death for real. He was a political agitator and needed to be dealt with. There’s the story of him cursing the fig tree book ending his death. He goes to the garden and prays all night and asks his deciples to keep watch. They repeatedly fall asleep. Judas, as he was predestined to do really, sells out Jesus’ whereabouts for thirty pieces of silver and a kiss on the cheek, and Jesus is arrested, beaten, tortured, crucified. On the cross he says “Father forgive them they know not what they do” and “today you shall be with me in paradise.” Then he dies, really really quickly for someone on a cross. And the world goes a little darker. Nicodemus gives Jesus his tomb and Jesus is interred. It is Friday.
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The Resurrection 31 Easter 32 Jesus’ body was put into a cave and the cave was closed off with a large rock. He resurrected and somehow opened the cave. 33 He resurrected three days after his death. 34 Jesus resurrected from the grave after three days. 35 On the third day he rose again in fulfillment of the scripture. 36 The put Jesus’ body in a cave with a rock door. And the next day his body was gone and the rock was moved. 37 He rose from the dead. That’s all I know! 38 The women find him first! Nobody believes it, and Thomas actually touches the wounds.
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Gross. Jesus keeps appearing, walking through locked doors and joining people on the road. Then he leaves for good. 39 He came back, and died for their sins. 40 He came back. 41 After the Sabbath, Saturday, the women followers of Jesus go to anoint his body and see that he is buried properly. They find that the stone has been rolled away and there is no Jesus there. Instead there is an Angel. People demand to know where the body has been moved, but then Jesus is there! Wow! He keeps showing up and it always takes a minute for people to recognize him. In the Christian church, Jesus is counted as “still alive” to this day.1
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Romans
The Plan of Salvation 1 For I am not ashamed of the
gospel of Christ for it is the power of salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew and then to the Gentile. 2 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 3 For while we were yet sinners, Christ died for the ungodly. 4 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus. 5 For I am convinced that the sufferings of this present world are not worthy to be compared to the joys stored up for those who love him. 6 If God is for us, who can be against us? 7 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor
principalities, nor things present nor things to come‌ can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 8 And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God and are called according to his purposes. 9 Jesus is lord. 10 I urge you bretheren by the mercies of God to present yourself a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your resasonable service of worship. 11 Vengeance is mine, says the Lord. 12 Be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that you might prove what is that good and perfect will of God.
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1 Corinthians 1 All things are lawful, but
not all things are profitable. 2 Whenever you eat his bread or drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until I come. 3 A passage that’s read at every wedding 4 Though I speak with the tongue of men and angels, but have not love, I am nothing but a noisy gong, or a clanging cymbal; if I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and knowledge, but have not
love, I am nothing without love. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor and I surrender my body to the flames to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.. Love is patient, love is kind, it does not boast, and is not puffed up, it does not act unbecomingly, it does not seek it’s own, it keeps no record of wrongs. It does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth.
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Galatians 1 I am crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me, and the life that I now live, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. 2 And do not grow weary
in doing good, for you will reap a harvest if you do not give up. 22But the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace patience kindness goodness gentleness and self-control, against such things there is no law.
Ephesians 1 And do not be drunk with
wine, which is dissipation, but be filled with the spirit. 2 For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother and cleave to his wife; the two shall become one flesh. 3 Fathers, do not
provoke your children. 4 Wives submit to your husbands, and husbands love your wives even as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her. And when you have done everything to stand, stand firm.
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Philippians* Colossians Philemon† 1 Thessalonians 2 Thessalonians‡ * Pray without ceasing.
† Set your mind on things above.
‡ If a man does not work, neither should he eat.
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1 Timothy 2 Timothy Hebrews* Titus† James‡ * Reconciling the Jewish faith and customs with faith in Jesus. Author unknown.
† He saved us, not because of the good things we have done, but because of his great mercy.
‡ Faith without works is dead. Confess your sins one to another that ye may be healed. The fervent prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.
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1 Peter* 2 Peter
* The time past is sufficient or you to have carried out the desires of the Gentiles, and in all of this, they are surprised that you do not join them. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
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1 John* 2 John 3 John
* If we confess our sins, he is faithful to forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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Revelations
The Rapture 1 He shall wipe away every tear
from their eyes, and there will be no more weeping and no more death. 2 He who has an ear let him hear what the spirit says to the churches. 15 To the church at Laodicea, you are lukewarm, and I will spit you out of my mouth… 3 Where there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth… 4 The anti-Christ will be born on this day and destroy everything in his path. 4 The River of Styx 5 The Whore of Babylon 6 Jesus will return for his true followers and those who “believe in him”. 7 When people will be judged for their sins.
8 There’s a mark of the devil
that will be printed on people’s wrist or something, and it will allow whoever has it to buy n sell stuff. 9 The anti-Christ comes, as a really nice guy but hes being controlled by the devil. 10 The rapture takes the people who believe in God to heaven, leaving the nonbelievers behind. 11 Then they come back to Earth in a war? I don’t remember. 12 It’s long and metaphorical. Basically, Jesus made it sound like it was coming soon, but he wouldn’t give any details. 13 It will come like a thief in the night, when nobody is ready for it.
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Bad Committing sins: lying, stealing, betraying, killing, disrespecting your parents, adultery, stealing, killing, lust, lies, women??? (eve)
Women wearing revealing clothes, Masturbating, Divorce, Satan, Murder. Keeping children from Jesus.
Depends on interpretation... Lately it’s been anything from gay marriage to birth control
Murder, sin, lust, greed, envy, adultery, lies, judgement, eating too much, eating meat, women wearing makeup, Homosexuality, The devil, Women, Sodomy, Adultery, Mixed fabrics, Fish, Women on their period, women wearing jewelry.
1. Sodomy (unless I ask God first) 2. Rent control 3. People not like me 4. WIC program 5. Ethnic neighborhoods Gays, Sex before marriage, Sex with the same gender, Just sex in general, Women, Mixing wools, Killing people, Adultery. Adultery is very bad. Abortion, Slavery Muslims, Do bad things Being greedy, gossip, stealing, telling a lie, etc Sex, Infidelity, Stealing, Killing, Lying, Slander, Hate, Judgement
Homosexuality, worshipping “other” gods, disrespect to parents, disrespect to your master (slavery), disrespect to God’s people, doing any work between Friday sundown to Saturday sundown, eating pig menstruating in public, spilling your semen on the ground.
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Good Do good things. Not sinning, Confessions, God, Jesus, Being a virgin. Forgiveness, love, generosity, Jesus, Love, obedience (whatever is stated on Ten Commandments) Every single created thing. Praying everyday, honoring god, giving thanks, making confession
Loving, Forgiving, Worship, Church, Spreading the “truth.� Love everyone. 1. Incest 2. Burning trees 3. Virgins 4. Drinking blood 5. Guns 6. Oceanfront properties
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Fundamental Concept Do good, don’t sin. Love Praise “Jesus” and everything will be okay. To believe in God... To devote your life to God for him to look over you and set you on the right path and eventually to end up in heaven
To ask that is to ask an impossible question simple because the Bible is not a book that agrees. It’s a series of books written over thousands of years and then compiled. So there is NO fundamental concepts of the Bible other than an acknowledgment that there is a God/Creator. Don’t be a dick. Love
If you wanna go to heaven, believe in God and read the bible. Love To follow it because it is right. Live/Love like Jesus The word of god? The idiot’s guide to sneaking into heaven.
Salvation. God chose people. (But I don’t actually believe the Bible has one consistent concept) People are complicated and designed to be flawed. Just try to love your neighbor, try not to be a dick, ask forgiveness, and help the needy.
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The contents of this book include crowd-sourced information on the Bible strictly from memory. This collaborative outcome shows the input of 36 participant's, from mixed backgrounds and beliefs, on one of the most fascinating and influential texts that has ever existed. The translation through memory reflects a similar process that was originally used to create this book, evolving, adding and losing detail through each retelling.
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