When I was a believer one of my favorites was John chapter 9, where Jesus cures a man of his blindness and the pharisees seem pretty disgruntled about it. I think it's still a pretty well-written story with some subtext and a fairly good narrative flow.
The book of Job is probably my favorite now because there is so much to read into it. You come to understand at least some of the objectives of the writing of the story, and you can try to grasp how the people of the time would have understood it. And there are all of those very thorny questions that make theists squirm. :p
The book of Job is probably my favorite now because there is so much to read into it. You come to understand at least some of the objectives of the writing of the story, and you can try to grasp how the people of the time would have understood it. And there are all of those very thorny questions that make theists squirm. :p
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
