Poll of the Day > I'm gonna read this book called "The Bible" SPOILERS

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Gonna see what all the fuss is about. I mean it's free. Using this app that gives me daily parts of it to ponder or try to figure out I guess. Full disclosure I consider myself an agnostic person. It is not my intent to offend anyone with this topic, I am merely exploring my own spirituality. If you are sensitive about your faith this may not be a topic for you.

Here is the first bit it has given me to ponder

But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:57 KJV

This uses the word victory, so that makes me think that it is about winning. So maybe through faith in Jesus you will win at life? Or maybe it means that Jesus died so people could get to heaven in sort of an ultimate victory? I feel like that might be the right interpretation since it mentions Jesus but also says thanks to God.

Not sure how I feel about the idea that all of your sins can just be forgiven and wiped away though. I try to be a good person and make decisions that help others, but I've also made mistakes and done bad things as well. I feel guilt about those choices, but I also remember them and how they make me feel so that I make better choices in the future. If I was to believe that my sins were simply absolved, I'm not sure how that would affect my perspective.
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Just watch one of the movie adaptations.
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You should actually read it instead of being drip-fed quotes. It's pretty absurd. Only bitch is getting through the "blank, son of blank, second cousin twice removed of blank, lord of the blanks, who was begat by blank" nonsense sections that are a mile long.
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I am actually reading it as well.
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Book of Job.
Read it.
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Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
2 Corinthians 9:15 KJV

This one seems pretty obvious. I don't know what Corinthians as a whole is about, but I know it is in the New Testament so I assume it is Jesus related. The one thing that confuses me is the choice of the word unspeakable.

My best guesses are that the gift in reference could be life itself, all of creation, God's love, or the fact that he had his son die for the sins of others. Maybe all of those things. I still don't understand how the word unspeakable would apply to any of those though.
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Mead posted...

Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
2 Corinthians 9:15 KJV

This one seems pretty obvious. I don't know what Corinthians as a whole is about, but I know it is in the New Testament so I assume it is Jesus related. The one thing that confuses me is the choice of the word unspeakable.

My best guesses are that the gift in reference could be life itself, all of creation, God's love, or the fact that he had his son die for the sins of others. Maybe all of those things. I still don't understand how the word unspeakable would apply to any of those though.

You have chosen an interesting place to start reading! Here, Corinthians is saying a parable about sowing seeds, which ends with your quote. They're talking about the saints at the time, and the seed is the good news of Christ.

In my translation, the word they used is indescribable. The saints came to people under the spell of death with grace and joy, something they have never seen before. So the people began to pray for the saints and help them, and that is the unspeakable gift. They won the hearts of the people basically, and the point of saints is to do the work on earth that God will not do yet, that is, to speak to others physically rather than spiritually.

You can tell they were trying for a cliffhanger ending to set things up for a sequel, but I don't know ... it doesn't really work for me.
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