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From a literary point of view obviously... this is my choice. It is just perfect.
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From a purely /lit/erary perspective I'd go for Acts 7:58.
>Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him; and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
I just admire how casually he introduces the most important person in the New Testament besides Jesus, lmao. Luke was a fabulous writer.
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Genesis 3:14
So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
Poor serpents. They get a bad rap in the scriptures. Maybe its a metaphor.
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According to a lady who had an NDE and went to Heaven, the serpent (Satan) got cursed into a worm; hence, the eating of 'dust' a.k.a. earth or soil. The same 'dust' that we are made out of. And I suppose spiritually, we can imagine that earth is also Hell, so Satan is cursed to eat off of evil and death all days of his life in Hell.
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>Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
>O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
>Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
The absolute seething hatred and pain that comes through this always struck me for some reason.
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>>25064343
Some literary critics believe that the conquest of Canaan was an historical fiction created by the Israelites because they felt inadequate in Babylonian captivity and invented a past that cast them as like their captors. Likewise many Israelis today feel that their powerlessness to Germany can only be prevented by changing their ideals to become more like their captors.
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>>25064351
According to Biblical interpretation and the use of the Amarna Letters, the conquest of Canaan by the "Habiru" or "Apiru" (which Biblical scholars highlight the phonetic similarity to "Hebrew") coincide with the events in the Bible.
Excuse the length of the link:
https://biblearchaeologyreport.com/2025/08/01/letters-from-the-biblica l-world-the-amarna-letters/#:~:text =In%20some%20of%20these%20letters,t he%20ḫa-bi-ru.&text=The%20ʿapîru/ḫa -bi-,in%20the%20land%20of%20Canaan.
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>>25064060
Job 38:4
"Where were thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding."
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>>25064060
i like the imagery in these two
Isaiah 66:24
And they shall go out and look at the corpses of the people who have rebelled against me,
for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.
Jeremiah 31:15
Thus says Yahweh, “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, the weeping of bitterness.
Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted because of her children, for they are no more.”
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And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
>makes some stupid random shit
>phew that acutally worked haha
>hmm and it isn't bad at all, I think I'll keep that
>well that's enough for today
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>>25064060
I found this quote strange because I have zero memory of anything like this from reading the Majority Text a few years ago and I also don't really recall direct prosopopoeic activity from God the Father (as in 'God smiled') being a thing in the Gospels, sure enough Matthew 18:19 is actually:
>Again I say to you that if two of you might agree concerning any matter on the earth, if they shall ask, it will be done for them by the Father of me who [is] in the heavens
Your quote seems to be an EXTREMELY loose paraphrase of the sentiment of the line
I've always liked Nietzsche's jab that the only words of genuine wisdom in the Bible are Pilate's "τί ἐστιν ἀλήθεια?"
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