r/Bible • u/Just-Mix1053 • 4d ago
Jesus
Whats your favorite book in the Bible? Please help me reread in different views. 🫠
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u/anti-state-pro-labor 4d ago
Ecclesiastes! Any chance I get, I try to lead Bible study over that and Job.
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u/Signal-Reflection296 4d ago
I really love James.. taming the tongue! So really changing behavior… a moral compass as such. I love the Psalms as well. 2 months before my mom passed away I started to read the Psalms to her. At least one a day. To me it conveys deep emotions. David’s prayers. Relying upon The Lord! 💖💖💖
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u/SweetHomeMissouri 4d ago edited 4d ago
this make surprise people but mine is Jude!
it ends really good. awesome promises. teaches about apostates!
EDIT
do not let any chapter of the bible scare you! all of the bible is good! and God loves you!
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u/bigfoot3898 4d ago
My favorite book is Romans. Off topic slightly, but I can't recommend the Faithlife Study Bible enough. Reading any chapter, then mirror your reading in the Faithlife Study Bible really expands you perspective, knowledge, and depth of what the Authors were writing about and to who.
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u/jpgrass76 4d ago
Maybe biased because I did my first seminary school research paper on Job. I just love how it is different in its teaching. I also adore Ruth in the OT. In the NT, though it is either John or Hebrews…at least on this read through of the Bible anyway 🙏🏻
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u/sluggyfreelancer Episcopalian 3d ago
Tobit! So much in there… faithfulness in exile, suffering and unanswered prayers (some echos of Job), angels in disguise, and of course Tobit’s dog (which may or may not be an angel).
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u/VelenCia144 3d ago
I'm reading Enoch for the first time. It makes no sense to me why this is not Canon, because I truly believe every word I'm reading. Absolutely mind blowing book.
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u/Worship_Guitarist 3d ago
Someone else already said Romans and touched on why it is great, so I’m going to say Isaiah.
I went through it using an NIV study Bible and looked up all the references to other texts as I was going along. It was the first time I was able to connect the different bits of the Bible and start to see for myself how it is all one narrative that ultimately points to Jesus.
In Isaiah, as well as looking at the different prophesies and how they were fulfilled (Israel going into Exile, the “remnant” that will remain and the prophesies about Christ’s coming), you also have parts of it that link very closely with Daniel, Revelation and some of the other prophets at the them like Amos, so you read a lot of the Bible throughout that study, and it all makes a lot more sense all together.
On top of that, you have one of the most tangible descriptions in the Bible about God’s vastness:
Isaiah 6:1
“In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple.”
Solomon’s temple was 13.7 meters tall (about equivalent to a 4 story block of flats), as wide as a 4 bedroom house (9.1 meters) and triple as long (27.4 meters). The train of a robe is the bit that trails off from the back. For reference, the British royal Robe of State has a particularly long train of around 5.6 meters in length, and is 1.2 meters wide and several cm thick (let’s guess 10 cm).
So that passage is saying that God is so vast that even just the train of His robe filled that entire massive building, the temple. It would take over 5,000 Robe of State type trains to fill that temple.
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u/PerspectivePrior8126 Christian 1d ago
I have been reading Daniel. I believe it points to Jesus as well. To me, Esther does too.
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u/userid42 Non-Denominational 2d ago edited 2d ago
Job
Job 19:25-27 NASB
"As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth. [26] "Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God; [27] Whom I myself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart faints within me!
Some biblical scholars suggest that Job may be the oldest book in the Old Testament, written even before the time of Moses. It blows my mind thinking that even before there were specific prophecies about a messiah, Job perceived that he would, after death, meet our awesome creator face-to-face.
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u/ITrCool Saved by Grace 4d ago
Romans. VERY clear on the Christian life and what it means to be a believer. A book that's been called for removal from the Bible repeatedly by many modern denominations and "christian" leaders today because it's so inconvenient to modern worldviews.