What is the Bible? : : how an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories can Transform the way you Think and Feel About Everything

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Call Number: 220.61 Be, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Religion & Spirituality / Christianity / Bell, Rob
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch

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Introduction: Twenty-five years in -- Part 1. There's something more going on here -- Moses and his moisture -- Somebody wrote something down -- Stoners and swingers -- Who paid Jesus's bills? -- Anakephalaiossathai -- The importance of attitude -- Smoking firepots -- And the fat closed in over the sword -- The thing about pearls and pigs -- Turning the gem -- Larry in the airport -- Part 2. The nature of that something -- Flood -- Fish -- Son -- He had no idea what I was talking about -- All that violence -- Do what to our whats? -- Give it up for Sidon! -- He can't even say his name -- the whole Melchizedek thing and why you love it and know it's true -- So how did Jesus read the Bible? -- The sheeeeeeeet factor -- All things are yours -- The human and the divine -- Part 3. Where that something takes us -- Babel -- Two or three kinds of apocalypses -- The Book or Revelation, of course -- Why Americans often miss the major themes of the Bible -- Part 4. The questions that always come up -- Why are there all those genealogies? -- Why is Leviticus in the Bible? -- What about all those people falling over dead? -- Did Jesus have to die? -- What about predestination? -- What about all that wrath? -- What about sin? -- It is the word of God? -- Is it authoritative? -- What about the contradictions? -- Is it inerrant? -- Is it inspired? -- What's the best question to ask when you're reading the Bible? -- What's the worst question to ask when you're reading the Bible? -- What's the other best question to ask when you're reading the Bible? -- Part 5. Endnotes.

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Changing my mind about the Bible submitted by irksit on July 8, 2018, 10:32pm I grew up with a conservative view of the Bible and after rejecting everything I was raised to believe, this book helped me approach the Bible differently and in a much more healthy way.