If you have a ganglion cyst on your wrist you can smack it with a Bibleto make it go away. There must be endless uses for those things.
In a pinch, a bible page can be used to roll a joint. I’ve heard.
Well as a Christian I would say that if the Bible were just a set of moral guidelines it wouldn’t be terribly valuable. There is no shortage of religions with lists of rules to follow. So it’s like, get in line, you know? But in fact the Bible tells us that man already has the basics of morality written in his heart - a Natural Law, so to speak. I think we see this manifested in the many common, core morals across diverse cultures.
But getting back to the point, the Bible is not merely another list of do’s and don’ts, whereby we can make sure we have more tallies in the do column to avoid a firey fate. But rather, it is the story of God’s redemption of a mankind that is much more adept at the don’ts than the dos. A story of hope and forgiveness for people who have noticed that they are much better at selfishness, pride, greed, lust, and hate, than they are at sacrifice, humility, generosity, chastity, and love. It is the story of mankind consistently failing to live morally, and what God did about it.
(Note: I have no illusions about this being a popular viewpoint on these boards)
Yes. I use it as a method or guide to make prayer easier and allow God to speak to my heart. It’s not so much any specific word or phrase but the overall “voice of God” that comes through. I could probably use repetitive chanting or other means but reading a few passages lets me center and collect my thoughts.
Wtf? We can discuss the worth of objects without having to demonstrate the worth of individual human beings.
At least as much as YOU are, no doubt about it. Probably more.
Or shooting Brits ------------ maybe. Depends on who you believe.
I was once high bidder on an EBay auction for a bible, autographed by author. The auction was pulled by EBay as being disingenuous. 
How would you like your aorta pinched, pothead? :mad:
“Disingenuous?” Try “surfeited with chutzpah”!
Ease up, dougie_monty. You can disagree without insults.
Well, I’ve had a long antipathy towards drug users and Bible haters…phrasing effective criticism of them is not easy.
Thank you E.C. I was trembling in my boots. Although I do not consider pothead an insult.
Not hitting “submit reply” is pretty easy for me but YMMV.
Although I’m with you on the worth of the Bible, Yahoo Answers is almost the worst thing in the world to use as a cite. I think I’d cite a link to a YouTube comment before YA.
Not to junior-mod, but I think one can also disagree without threats, aortic or otherwise.
It was a cite of worth equal to who it was proffered.
I don’t know about that.
But there was an episode the other week of a TV program called The Americans in which the lead character (Matthew Rhys) used the bible to underscore a very dramatic point in the script. The use of the bible lent itself to making that point in a very emphatic way.
I thought that it was used in a very valuable way and I can’t imagine any other way in which that point could have been made any more emphatically. It was a really great episode.
At least you didn’t admit to rolling joints with The Watchtower.
In the interest of keeping this factual, wouldn’t breathing in the burned up ink on the page be bad for you? I mean potentially worse than breathing in regular smoke with out any ink.