Favorite Bible Stories

jasmine tarkheena

jasmine tarkheena

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I don't believe that there's been a discussion about favorite Bible stories (especially for those of us that are Christian or even grew up going to church and Sunday School). So I thought I start a discussion about one.

It's hard to pick just one favorite Bible story. Mine is almost always changing. I think one of my favorite stories is from Jeremiah, where he had the Word of God written down by Baruch, and it was read in the temple. Then it was read to King Jehoiakim, and he would cut it into pieces and tossed it in the fire. It did not destroyed God's Word, though. Then God told Jeremiah to have Baruch right it all over again.

Anyone on here has a favorite Bible story that they would like to share?
 
One of my favorites is in First Samuel, when Prince Jonathan defied his corrupted father by helping David escape. The true-hearted, honorable Jonathan walked a moral tightrope successfully; he remained obedient and loyal to Saul, EXCEPT when Saul wanted his son to join in doing wrong.
 
The Book of Ruth could have been the model for Jane Austen's fiction. (Understand, I'm not saying that this Bible book itself IS fiction.) Virtuous young heroine is in difficult circumstances by no fault of her own. A prosperous man of noble and benevolent character involves himself in her life, helping her out but NOT DEMANDING ANYTHING in return. Heroine is not interested in Exciting Bad Boys, because she loves the good guy for his kindness. They get married, and God blesses their union.

Boaz is THE MAN!
 
I was just actually thinking about the miracles that Jesus during His ministry.

The first miracle was when He turned the water into wine at the wedding at Cana. Though it's hard to figure out what was the last miracle He did. It's certainly debatable.

Some might say when He raised Lazarus from the dead. It was actually close to last, since the religious leaders plotted against Jesus's death soon after. Some might say when Peter cut off Malchus's right ear and Jesus restored it at the Garden of Gethsemane.
 
In 1971, before I became a Christian, I bought the album of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." UNLIKE "Jesus Christ, Superstar," it did not actively insult God; in fact, it encouraged my interest in the Bible.
 
I've actually seen a live performance Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and it was beyond incredible! Andrew Lloyd Webber really knew how to write a musical, but who would have thought he would write one based on a Bible story (especially one that is perhaps one of the best known).
 
If I recall correctly, Mister Lloyd-Webber composed "Joseph and--" as a favor to a church pastor he knew, in order for that man's church to be able to present an attention-getting cantata.

By the way, did I ever mention that, in 1973, I got to be Pharaoh in a church production of that show?
 
I think one of my favourite stories is when David could have taken Saul's life (twice, I think) but instead just took a token (Saul's spear on one occasion and a corner of his cloak on the other) - showing that David was loyal to Saul even though Saul was persecuting him unjustly and even though David had already been anointed by Samuel as Saul's successor. Many a would-be successor in history and modern times has readily knifed a perfectly good leader in the back to steal their place, but David does the opposite. In fact, he grieves when Saul dies, and when someone comes to joyfully to tell him the news of Saul's death he has the man executed for disloyalty to Saul.

I think in this story, David prefigures Jesus in his temptations, when one of the temptations Satan lays before Jesus is to take hold of his kingdom in the wrong way and at the wrong time. It also reminds me of what Aslan says to Digory at the end of The Magician's Nephew about the apple of youth - that if he had plucked it at the wrong time and without permission then, even though it would have 'worked', it would have worked in a way that Digory and his mother would both come to regret.

Peeps
 
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