Favorite Bible Story(s)/Character(s)?
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My favorite characters in the Bible is Job. When my son was suddenly taken from me at the age of 10, I read the book of Job because I wanted to know how he walked through this difficult valley to come out with victory. What a powerful story. It gave me hope when I read it.
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Zoroaster is a pretty interesting character.  He is actually credited as being the founder of the beliefs of the Magi ... the "three wise men" who followed the star to Bethelehem.
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One of my favorite Bible stories involves a prophet gone wrong and a talking mule.\n\nIt's funny when the mule asks the prophet why he is beating his poor defenseless mule.\n\nWhat's even funnier though, is that he answers the mule like it talks to him all of the time :)\n\nThe moral of the story?  Don't beat yer mule.\n\nOkay, there is more to it than this, but when you are teaching little kids, he does make em giggle.
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International Bible Society has never let me down.\n\nhttp://www.ibs.org/\n\nBlessed Be
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Probably Jude... although I love reading it aloud, and it is quite powerful.  Actually I'd just like to trim the bit where Satan is arguing over Moses' body and the Enoch reference.\n BTW the Book of Enoch is not mention in the Old Testament, although he is mentioned (Genesis) and 'walked with God' implying he 'ascended' bodily into Heaven.  The book of Enoch is a much later writing, and was clearly not written by Enoch himself, which is part of the reason its left out of the gospels.  (It constitutes as part of the Psuedepigrepha)  Much of Enoch's fame stems from traditions, that include his transformation into the Metatron (the voice fo God).\n  I'd also be inclined to suggest a different version if you are having trouble with Paul.  Although bits can be very complicated even at the best of times.  The other thing to try: read them aloud, many of the letters were intended to be read aloud to congregations.
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This is a story about a prophet who dared to tell the truth. At the time of this story the Jewish people were divided into 2 kingdoms.  These kingdoms were Judah and Israel. Ahab was the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat was the king of Judah.\n\nJehoshaphat had gone to see Ahab.  Ahab was complaining to Jehoshaphat that the kingdom of Syria had taken some of his land.  The land in question Ramoath at Gilead. Ahab wanted Jehoshaphat to go with him to fight Syria and take back this land.\n\nJehoshaphat said he would go after they asked the advice from a prophet of God.  Ahab was ready with 400 prophets, only these prophets were not true prophets of God.  They were "yes men", that is men who said "yes" to anything the king wanted.  They also took part in idol worship, so they were not doing what God wanted them to do. When these prophets were asked if they, Ahab and Jehoshaphat, would win this battle they said that they would win, but Jehoshaphat wasn't satisfied and asked Ahab if there was another prophet of God.\n\nAhab told him that yes there was one named Micaiah, the son of Imlah.  King Ahab said, "I hate him!" he said he hated Micaiah because he never had anything good to say about him or what he wanted to do.  He said that all that Micaiah had to say about him was evil.  But King Jehoshaphat insisted that Ahab send for Macaiah.\n\nThe men that King Ahab had sent to get Macaiah even told Macaiah what to answer when the king asked for his advice.  When he was asked Micaiah answered what he was told to answer, but he said it in a way that every one would know that he was not telling the truth. This made Ahab angry and he ask him to tell the truth. Then Machaiah answered and told them the truth. He said if they went into this battle Israel would be scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd.\n\nAhab said, "Didn't I tell you that he wouldn't prophecy anything good about me, but evil? Another one of Ahab's men got so mad that he slapped Macaiah. Then Ahab order the Macaiah be put in prison and fed only BREAD and WATER until he got back.  Macaiah told Ahab that if he came back at all that what he had just told the them was not from God.\n\nWe know that Macaiah was telling the truth and what he said was from God because he was right. What he said would happen happened.    Even though Ahab had disguised himself for the battle he was killed in that battle.\nAs for Jehoshapaht? Some of the Syrian army saw Jehoshaphat in his chariot and chased him mistaking him for Ahab.  Jehoshaphat had to yell out that he was Jehoshaphat and not Ahab or he might have been killed, too.\n\nSometimes it might be hard to tell the truth but we should always tell the truth.
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My personal favorite is Andrew Va De Kamp ;)
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I suppose you mean Lazarus, who was raised from the dead by Jesus. Interestingly, the Bible makes no mention of him dying a second time, although it is clearly understood that he did. However, there were several other Bible characters who were raised from the dead as well.
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Here's one link.  There are others just type in children's Bible stories on the search engine.\nhttp://www.jesusanswers.com/christian/stories/creation.htm
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I know it's probably not the sort of thing you're looking for, but when I was 6, my father read the Old Testament book of Job to me, and I found it truly fascinating. I couldn't wait until school was out, and he'd read me the next installment. I had him tell me the story of Job over and over again.\n\nThe Old Testament story of Joseph and his coat of many colors (or Jonah and the whale) might be a hit. There are tons of great Old Testament stories. The walls of Jericho coming down is a good story, too. And don't forget Noah's Ark.\n\nFor the New Testament perspective, the story of Jesus feeding the five thousand might work. If the kids are sharp, they might like hearing about Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus. Any of the healing stories with Jesus could get their attention (the raising of Jairus' daughter, etc).
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I love the Bible.  I am so grateful that God gave us a manual for life and revealed  His love for us in black & white.  "I will hide His Word in my heart so I will not sin against God."
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I have many, many Bibles and often use them to compare scriptures which I'm studying.  But for reading and teaching I prefer a modern language text, and one that is TRANSLATED (from original Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic) as opposed to one that is a VERSION.  My two favorites are The New World Translation and the American Standard Bible.  Also I prefer ones that have footnotes and cross references, which I use a great deal.
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i am agnostic... i beleive the bible is a compilation of myth and legend. kind of like a really good tall tale. i have been known to compare jesus to paul bunyun... yeah their was a big axe wielding lumberer named paul bunyun but did he really have a blue ox... hell no.. sure jesus was a good dude, but did he really do any miracles... i kinda doubt it.
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I have because I think if you're going to follow a religion that's based on a holy text, it's important to know what that text says.  Yes, Proverbs was good; my favorite was the one about how a good wife is worth more than pearls.  I think it's towards the end.  Leviticus, on the other hand, was dry as dust, and the geneologies were seemingly endless.  I liked the Song of Songs  and Esther.  The Epistles were really interesting because they showed the problems of the early Church and how they dealt with them.  It kind of lent a personal touch that I could relate to.    \n\nOne of the biggest things I realized, though, was that the Gods of the Old and the New Testament really aren't radically different.  There's a lot of love and understanding in the OT that frequently gets skipped over, and ditto for some of the sterner stuff in the NT.  That was kind of a revalation to me.  Still, I need to read it again sometime.  I got a lot out of it, but there are more things I need to go over.
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I actually had a conversation with him the other day.  He's a close personal friend of mine.  He's really a lot more talkative than they make him out to be in the Bible and he doesn't always talk in parables.
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Bible is older and they both make up stories.
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Give me the BIBLE. Thank You!!