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What's the LEAST meaningful bible verse?
People are always asking for examples of profound, meaningful bible passages. While I'm sure you have several pithy quotes at your disposal, I'm more interested in those really pointless, meandering passages, where you're just like, Why the hell would somebody include that bit of drivel in God's Holy Word?
So go ahead, give me your best drivel.
All those who claim all biblical passages are meaningful: Read Nehimiah 7. It's a list of who survived the Babylonian captivity, and all their descendants. My favorite part is near the end where, after 60 verses of names, without even the excitement of a begat, it says:
"And from among the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, Hakkoz and Barzillai (a man who had married a daughter of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by that name). These searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean."
Some poor sods had failed to keep the exquisite genealogical data required by the Lord God, so they got jacked. If that's not profound eternal wisdom, I don't know what is.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
In the ePistles of Paul there are sections where he tells people to say hello to other people for him. It's fairly pointless. Example:
Romans 16:14
Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas and the brothers with them.
and sometimes he tells them other people say hi.
2 Timothy 4:21
Eubulus greets you, and so do Pudens, Linus, Claudia and all the brothers.
You get the idea. BTW, Paul says hi.
- 1 decade ago
The LEAST meaningful bible verse is every one of those that people take out of context, combining with other verses in order to prove their own agenda and not Gods.
For example read the following two verses and then go do what the Bible says.
Matthew 27:5
So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
Luke 10:37
Jesus told him, "Go and do likewise."
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I will say one of the best verses, is also one of the worse.
The single most mis-quoted verse of all time. I correct people all the time and others correct them, but even Christians mis-quote it all the time thereby completely changing the meaning.
The root of all evil. Almost always said as "money is the root of all evil." And the quote is very plain in it's wording and meaning.
"The LOVE of money is the root of all evil." Which, of course, is referring to greed.
And, of course, a lot of those begat things.
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- אידיאליסטי™Lv 51 decade ago
John 3:12-18
12 I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? 13 No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man. 14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15 that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.
A pithy drivel quote!
Source(s): NIV - ErikaLv 45 years ago
I did an identical element whilst my father died, yet based on the information you gave i might get 2 hockey sticks or one with the dates( delivery-death) or basically a clover with the dates. i does not get the call until you employ dad, it would seem unusual on your bf and destiny bf's and plus you called him dad so... good success
- OPMLv 71 decade ago
I love this question.
To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech
- 1 decade ago
I don't know....probably something in the chronologies. But still every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God has power, we just have to discover it!
- 1 decade ago
Take any of the verses that people use to try to slam Christianity. You will see that these are the relatively least important ones anyways.