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Originally Posted by arjaybe
I read the bible cover-to-cover once. It was hard. The writing doesn't really sweep you along. I found it had a lot of self-justification, and a lot of similar stories repeated. Like the one where the god says, kill them and take their stuff because they're heretics. I guess it would be all right for a scholar who could burrow down into one one book or one verse and squeeze all kinds of meaning out of it, but as a cohesive story end-to-end, it doesn't measure up. BTW, when I did this reading there was no AI to consult, and no internet to look up guides.
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But it's many books by many people and almost none of it written like a story. No way can it be cohesive.
I suppose Gospel of Luke and Acts can be read together. Esther is somewhat like a story as are parts of some books. Some books that are like stories might be only Canonical for Roman Catholics.
Song of Songs is Erotic Love Poetry.
The "Guides" (commentaries) were cheaply available and in libraries before the Internet. But "Bible Time" and other eSword resources are now on the Internet to download for free and are copies of accepted paper material, rather than the shuffled AI content that can be scrapped from entertainment and satirical sites.