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What are the most awesome moments in the Bible? Let's discuss.
For me, it will always be when Jacob wrestles with an angel...and wins!

This thread has the likelihood of getting ugly fast!

"From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths." - 2 Kings 2:23-24

Best. Story. EVAR.

CrimsonRyu17 (post: 1368298) wrote:"From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths." - 2 Kings 2:23-24

Best. Story. EVAR.

THIS.

Uh oh, looks like Rocklobster got into the TVTropes.

Judges is chock full of awesome moments, like Samson smacking around a bunch of Philistines with a donkey jawbone or carrying off a city's gates. God making the world from nothing was pretty awesome, too. Or Judah getting their enemies to fight each other by singing and filling a valley with water. But the best one would have to be
[SPOILER]Jesus' death.

He gets better.[/SPOILER]

I'd have to say the obvious: Jesus' saving us haha!

BUT besides the obvious: I think the holy spirit coming was pretty cool haha!

I really need to read the biblical stories more XD I usually just read the stuff that has good morals...

*ME FAIL*

The bear verse is off the hook <3

2 Samuel 23 - <3 David's Mighty Men

Balaam's talking donkey. That's pretty awesome - though humbling for Balaam.

See my sig. And that's all I have to say about that.

REALLY Fat guy. Sword. Locked door.

Awesome. I'd so love to make a movie or TV show about Judges.

EDIT: I wanted to use a different link for the fat one, but I don't think it would have made it through CAAs censoring, and... well, probably wouldn't have been allowed.

CrimsonRyu17 (post: 1368298) wrote:"From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths." - 2 Kings 2:23-24

Best. Story. EVAR.

I FRIGGEN LOVE THIS STORY! I ALWAYS HAVE! We used to shout this at our youth leader after the verse was pointed out to us. He was this large dude and bald. He'd warn us about the bears. Thankfully there were no bears close enough to maul us.

Etoh*the*Greato (post: 1368408) wrote:I FRIGGEN LOVE THIS STORY! I ALWAYS HAVE! We used to shout this at our youth leader after the verse was pointed out to us. He was this large dude and bald. He'd warn us about the bears. Thankfully there were no bears close enough to maul us.

Ahahahaha! My youth pastors bald - Can't believe I didn't even think of that

Etoh*the*Greato (post: 1368408) wrote:I FRIGGEN LOVE THIS STORY! I ALWAYS HAVE! We used to shout this at our youth leader after the verse was pointed out to us. He was this large dude and bald. He'd warn us about the bears. Thankfully there were no bears close enough to maul us.

He should have reminded you that the Lord would not find this issue particularly difficult to overcome...

Saul's conversion.


What? Does every "awesome" Bible story require homicide?

Ingemar (post: 1368419) wrote:What? Does every "awesome" Bible story require homicide?

You know it gurlfran.

Congrats, Lobby, on losing your life to TVTropes. It's better than Satanism, at least? Except it cost more.

Bobtheduck (post: 1368406) wrote:REALLY Fat guy. Sword. Locked door.

Awesome. I'd so love to make a movie or TV show about Judges.

EDIT: I wanted to use a different link for the fat one, but I don't think it would have made it through CAAs censoring, and... well, probably wouldn't have been allowed.

This! Win! Poor guy lost his sword...

CrimsonRyu17 (post: 1368298) wrote:"From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths." - 2 Kings 2:23-24

Best. Story. EVAR.

I love asking our bald youth pastor if he's ever set bears on anyone.

Ingemar (post: 1368419) wrote:Saul's conversion.


What? Does every "awesome" Bible story require homicide?

Not so much requirement as coincidence.

Okay then, time to make a real post. Of course, some of these won't seem very awesome unless you know exactly what I am thinking, but I can't describe what I'm thinking because it would turn into a debate. Oh well!

The first one is when God is talking to Job after having been silent for so long, and asks where Job was when He made the universe, and questions like "Have you been to the bottom of the ocean? Have you seen the gates of death?" and inserts this statement into the middle of His rant:

Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years! - Job 38:21

This next one needs no introduction, but I'm going to post the John version of the story because Jesus acts way cooler in that one than in the other two:

"So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables." - John 2:15

CRACK THAT WHIP.

Last one:

Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 2 Jesus answered, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? 3 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. 4 Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish." - Luke 13:1-5

rocklobster (post: 1368283) wrote:What are the most awesome moments in the Bible? Let's discuss.
For me, it will always be when Jacob wrestles with an angel...and wins!

Jacob doesn't win. The angel struck him, Jacob's hip went out of joint and he walked with a limp from then on.


One of the most awesome moments in the Bible to me (other than Christ's resurrection) would be the healing of the blind man. The disciples asked Jesus why the man was blind. Was it because he sinned? Was it because his parents sinned?
Jesus replied that he was born blind so that the power of God may be shown through him. And then Jesus heals him. Gives me assurance that God has a purpose for me being born with my disability and that He will use it for His glory.

Also Elijah and the prophets of Balaam. That was awesome.

The anecdotes of David's mighty men. I can't remember their names offhand, but there was one who killed an enemy with his own spear, one who killed some Philistines over a field of lentils, and another who fought so long and hard his own sword stuck to his hand.

I'm a pretty big fan of the book of Jonah. At the end, Jonah gets angry at God because, as he says, "You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity."

God responds by providing a bit of shade for Jonah, then taking it away. Jonah then became angry about the plant to which God replies, ""You had compassion on the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which came up overnight and perished overnight. Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?"

Sheenar (post: 1368483) wrote:Jacob doesn't win. The angel struck him, Jacob's hip went out of joint and he walked with a limp from then on.

Genesis 32:24-25 "And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him."

Hosea 12:4 "Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed:"

Hmm. Must be open to interpretation. I've always read this as, while it was still a fair match, Jacob was winning ("prevailing"), so the angel used his powers to escape.

Another favorite moment is when that woman caught in adultery is about to be stoned by the mob and Jesus sets them straight by saying "He who is without sin must cast the first stone."
Crickets chirp in background as crowd disperses.
Then he pulls the biggest surprise of all and actually forgives her!

There's actually a page on tvtropes.org for Crowning Moments of Awesome in the Bible.

Another one to me speaks for itself: Deborah, only recorded female judge of Israel.

Numbers 22:27-30

When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam, and he was angry and beat her with his staff. 28 Then the LORD opened the donkey's mouth, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?"

Balaam answered the donkey, "You have made a fool of me! If I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now."

The donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your own donkey, which you have always ridden, to this day? Have I been in the habit of doing this to you?"
"No," he said.

I like how he starts arguing with the talking donkey as if it is perfectly normal. And how the donkey owns his emotional response with logic.

I liked when Jonathan and his armourbearer slew 20 philistenes CQC. "for there is no restraint to the LORD, to save by many or by few." first part of 1 Samuel 14. I like it because I don't think I'll ever slay 500 men with an ox-goad, or sway thousands with my dicipleness, so these smaller acts of faith seem reachable. Of course, Rad, Shack, and Benny gettin thrown in the furnace is awsome since they were expecting to die there. They stated that God could save them, but even if not, they wouldn't yeild.

All the best stories in the Bible involve violence of some sort, haha.

As gruesome as they are, the incident in Judges where a woman literally bashes Abimelech's skull with a piece of millstone, and in 2nd Samuel where someone throws an enemy's head over the wall to Joab. Not sure who it was who actually did it, but reading that it was a woman who said it would happen? Awesome!

I like the part where God slaughters the firstborn of Egypt! That was SO COOL!

No but seriously guys, I'm with Ingemar here. I think we can all agree the bear thing is pretty sweet but why does everyone seem to be listing a bunch of stuff where people are slaughtering others? I mean yes okay it happened in the Bible and we can't change it but I'm pretty sure we shouldn't be glorifying wholesale murder.

And we whine and moan when people say religion is violent and evil...

How many of the "crowning moment of awesome" entries in TV tropes (not referring to the Bible page) are based on violence of some sort? I'd wager over half... Probably over 3/4. There's nothing to be ashamed of when you find something in the Bible awesome that involves violence.

I honestly can't think of any other examples that just make me go "woah" besides the Ehud one, and possibly Jesus overturning the money changers and his dealing with the Samaritan woman. The last two are awesome because Jesus is GOOD and yet he did things many people would be uncomfortable with any maybe even view as WRONG. They weren't wrong, though.

"My ways are not your ways, and my thoughts are not your thoughts"

There's so much random awesome stuff in Judges besides people beating each other up with jawbones and iron spikes (oxgoads). Like this one guy, he shows up for maybe 3-4 verses, and it says, essentially, "There was this guy. He had a bunch of sons who all had their own donkeys. He was awesome."