What is the Bible? : how an ancient library of poems, letters, and stories can transform the way you think and feel about everything /
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| Language: | English |
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San Francisco :
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First Edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Twenty-five years in
- Part 1. There's Something More Going on Here :
- 1. Moses and his moisture
- 2. Somebody wrote something down
- 3. Stoners and swingers
- 4. Who paid Jesus's bills?
- 5. "Anakephalaiossathai"
- 6. The importance of attitude
- 7. Smoking firepots
- 8. And the fat closed in over the sword
- 9. The thing about pearls and pigs
- 10. Turning the gem
- 11. Larry in the airport
- Part 2. The Nature of That Something :
- 12. Flood
- 13. Fish
- 14. Son
- 15. He had no idea what I was talking about
- 16. All that violence
- 17. Do what to our whats?
- 18. Give it up for Sidon!
- 19. He can't even say his name
- 20. The whole Melchizedek thing and why you love it and know it's true
- 21. So how did Jesus read the Bible?
- 22. The sheeeeeeeet factor
- 23. All things are yours
- 24. The human and the divine
- Part 3. Where That Something Takes Us :
- 25. Babel
- 26. Two or three kinds of apocalypses
- 27. The Book or Revelation, of course
- 28. Why Americans often miss the major themes of the Bible
- Part 4. The Questions That Always Come Up :
- 29. Why are there all those genealogies?
- 30. Why is Leviticus in the Bible?
- 31. What about all those people falling over dead?
- 32. Did Jesus have to die?
- 33. What about predestination?
- 34. What about all that wrath?
- 35. What about sin?
- 36. It is the word of God?
- 37. Is it authoritative?
- 38. What about the contradictions?
- 39. Is it inerrant?
- 40. Is it inspired?
- 41. What's the best question to ask when you're reading the Bible?
- 42. What's the worst question to ask when you're reading the Bible?
- 43. What's the other best question to ask when you're reading the Bible?
- Part 5. Endnotes :
- A note about the subtitle
- A disclaimer about this book
- A thousand thanks
- Books about the Bible that will blow your mind
- A note on growing and changing