To discuss your favorite Bible stories, characters and verses.
Personally I always liked the story of Joseph, and how after being sold by his brothers he became the Vizier of Egypt. Samuel and the book of Kings are also great. From the New Testament my favorite gospel is the Gospel of Mark as it seems to be the oldest, Jesus is more human in Mark as well when compared to John.
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Ecclesties is the most keyed
book
The words
of the Teacher,[a] son of David, king in Jerusalem:
“Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”
3 What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil under
the sun?
4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth
remains forever.
5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where
it rises.
6 The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north;
round and round
it goes,
ever returning on its course.
7 All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never
full.
To the place
the streams come from,
there
they return 
again.
8 All things are wearisome,
more than one can say.
The eye never
has enough 
of seeing,
nor the ear its fill of hearing.
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there
is nothing 
new under 
the sun.
10 Is there
anything 
of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before
our time.
11 No one remembers the former generations,
and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow
them.
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Keyed? Keyed on what?
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How is the english
Bible 
so poetic? The portuguese translations aren’t as beautiful 
as the english 
ones.
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Thank the constantly fracturing anglophone churches for that, probably. There's literally
hundreds and maybe thousands of different translations from different sects who all have differing levels of emphasis 
of translation on the "literal word for word vs translation for feel/meaning" spectrum.
It also helps that Ecclesiastes is a very flowery book that could have been written by Proust and Nietzsche's baby.
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That's nice sweaty. Why don't you have a seat in the time out corner with Pizzashill until you calm down, then you can have your Capri Sun.
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