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Post by Benjamin on Mar 26, 2014 0:17:27 GMT
So, something Shiloh mentioned in another thread prompted this one. Hollywood often considers Bible stories to be a little... mundane, let's say. This is why we get sensationalised tripe like the upcoming Noah movie (where Nephilim help build the ark and Noah fights battles against the locals). So, here's the idea: post your favourite "sensational" Bible story. Here's mine - though it's just one of many. I like to use this one to remind people that the Bible tells the truth in all of its gory detail: Judges 3: ----------------------------------------- Gross, huh?  |
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Post by elizabeth on Mar 26, 2014 2:17:37 GMT
There's many good stories in Judges.
Sensational never stands out for me, in the 'action' sense. I think one of my favorite stories is the one where Samuel tells David an analogy after David has sinned with Bathsheba, and has sent Urriah to be killed in the battle. This is the tale of the rich man, with many sheep, and the poor man with one beloved sheep. It's from 2 Samuel 12
(2Sa 12:1) Then the LORD sent Nathan to David. And he came to him and said, "There were two men in one city, the one rich and the other poor.
(2Sa 12:2) "The rich man had a great many flocks and herds.
(2Sa 12:3) "But the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb Which he bought and nourished; And it grew up together with him and his children. It would eat of his bread and drink of his cup and lie in his bosom, And was like a daughter to him.
(2Sa 12:4) "Now a traveler came to the rich man, And he was unwilling to take from his own flock or his own herd, To prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him; Rather he took the poor man's ewe lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him."
(2Sa 12:5) Then David's anger burned greatly against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As the LORD lives, surely the man who has done this deserves to die.
(2Sa 12:6) "He must make restitution for the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing and had no compassion."
(2Sa 12:7) Nathan then said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'It is I who anointed you king over Israel and it is I who delivered you from the hand of Saul.
(2Sa 12:8) 'I also gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your care, and I gave you the house of Israel and Judah; and if that had been too little, I would have added to you many more things like these!
(2Sa 12:9) 'Why have you despised the word of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.
(2Sa 12:10) 'Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.'
(2Sa 12:11) "Thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own household; I will even take your wives before your eyes and give them to your companion, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight.
(2Sa 12:12) 'Indeed you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and under the sun.'"
(2Sa 12:13) Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD." And Nathan said to David, "The LORD also has taken away your sin; you shall not die.
(2Sa 12:14) "However, because by this deed you have given occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born to you shall surely die."
(2Sa 12:15) So Nathan went to his house. Then the LORD struck the child that Uriah's widow bore to David, so that he was very sick.
(2Sa 12:16) David therefore inquired of God for the child; and David fasted and went and lay all night on the ground.
(2Sa 12:17) The elders of his household stood beside him in order to raise him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat food with them.
(2Sa 12:18) Then it happened on the seventh day that the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, "Behold, while the child was still alive, we spoke to him and he did not listen to our voice. How then can we tell him that the child is dead, since he might do himself harm!"
(2Sa 12:19) But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; so David said to his servants, "Is the child dead?" And they said, "He is dead."
(2Sa 12:20) So David arose from the ground, washed, anointed himself, and changed his clothes; and he came into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he came to his own house, and when he requested, they set food before him and he ate.
(2Sa 12:21) Then his servants said to him, "What is this thing that you have done? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept; but when the child died, you arose and ate food."
(2Sa 12:22) He said, "While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, 'Who knows, the LORD may be gracious to me, that the child may live.'
(2Sa 12:23) "But now he has died; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me."
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Post by shiloh on Mar 26, 2014 2:30:55 GMT
Hmmm..these are good.. Benjamin, I was really laughing at your visuals in parenthesis. That could very well be a sensationalistic movie. I have to think on this one.
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Post by morningstar on Mar 26, 2014 19:39:37 GMT
Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man....Really Benjamin???!!!...LOL..
This has to be one of the most humorous verses in Scripture....God certainly has a sense of Humor!! I would love to see Hollywood put this one on film...LOL
Yes, God does have a sense of Humor!!!..
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Post by elizabeth on Mar 26, 2014 20:11:06 GMT
Morningstar, thank you. I love the book of Samuel, and as often as I have read it I have never figured that out. My bible, NASB, has tumors.
There's another story in Samuel I love, in 1 Samuel 15. Samuel has been told to wipe out the Amalekites, all the people and the animals. Saul, tells the Kenites to leave that population, does not kill their King, King Agag, and spares the animals. The rest he kills. The Lord then tells Samuel who is a distance away that He regretted that He made Saul king.
Samuel, was so distressed. After a long night, he left to meet Saul. Here's what followed:
(1Sa 15:12) Samuel rose early in the morning to meet Saul; and it was told Samuel, saying, "Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, then turned and proceeded on down to Gilgal."
(1Sa 15:13) Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, "Blessed are you of the LORD! I have carried out the command of the LORD."
(1Sa 15:14) But Samuel said, "What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?"
Now I know this is a very serious moment, but this last verse always makes me laugh, Samuel asking, "What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?" This is biblical sarcasm, isn't it?
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Post by Benjamin on Mar 26, 2014 23:56:39 GMT
Ah, yes... rats and haemmorhoids. Always a classic.
I know that this thread is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but you don't often hear these stories, and you certainly don't see them being preached on - but we SHOULD! So many people have the idea that the Bible is a set of boring fictional stories with no relevance, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Ehud might have stabbed a guy and lost his dagger in all the fat, but what he really happened was that God saved Israel from the hand of a brutal king. That's a real, historical event, and a story that is pretty insane.
there are plenty of others, of course... we all know I love Baalam's chatty donkey, but what about Jael, using a tent peg to kill the Syrian, Sisera, by stabbing him through the heart? She used a tent peg! A TENT PEG, AND A HAMMER. You can't tell me that isn't theatrical.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2014 0:31:41 GMT
So many people have the idea that the Bible is a set of boring fictional stories with no relevance, but that couldn't be further from the truth.
I quite enjoy the OT accounts, and I think that God's grace and mercy can be felt there too. I remember there were some parts in what I've read so far that almost made me tear up because I could see that there too. It may be a little difficult at first glance because of the focus on the Law, but it's there. |
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Post by Benjamin on Mar 27, 2014 1:37:37 GMT
Agreed. ...and in all honesty, the more I learn about Scripture, the more I see just how relevant certain passages are... even though I may have considered them 'boring' myself at one point in time.
...certainly the Law is a good example of this. It is so utterly relevant to the coming of Christ ("I have not come to do away with the law, but to fulfil it"), but so often we skip it because - on the surface - it doesn't seem interesting. Yet, when you read that Christ's legs were not broken on the cross, and find that very requirement was there, in the law, for the Passover Lamb... how can that not amaze you?
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