Coolest character in the Bible--Jael.
I have a friend named Jael, she is cool too.
Cool! I was thinking that I'd name my daughter (that I'm never going to have) Jael.
I like how you said "character" as if Jael was just a fairytale.
I point this out, because I said the same thing about King David the other day...
dude, they could be called "characters", but they're not, you're right
i think we say this because we started reading about them in the bible stories book, so long ago.
are kings like Julius Caesar or Alexander the Great spoken of as "characters in history"?
I was just talking about this the other day - I came into the truth when I was a little older, so I never read the bible story book. Now I think I should have, because the little kids in my hall know the stories like the back of their hands and I can't remember any of them. :(
i used to recite the "jonah" story word for word, to convince people i could read when i really couldn't.
My little brothers loved that one too. I remember them both saying "Go to the city of Ninevah!" all around the house, and I thought, Who was supposed to go to Ninevah? :P
summer played this trick, but i think she used the story about dinah.
Have you read the book at all? It's awesome! I love the Wise King Solomon one with the two ladies and the baby. That was always my favorite.
yea, you should read it, even after all of the society's books i've read, whenever a certain "story" is being discussed at the meeting, the pictures i rememeber are from the bible story book.
I leaved through it when I read the stories to my brothers when they were little, but I've never read it all the way through. I'd feel silly - the writing is for little kids.
You may think the writing is for little kids, but it is still using the Bible as its reference and is a tool from Jehovah to help out the younger ones, so there is no difference between reading that book and an article in a Watchtower or Awake that is targeted toward the younger ones... Shouldn't we all be like babes when it comes to learning more about the truth?
Obviously it's the same information, but it is written for little kids - that's not my thought, it's uncontroverted.
How will you be able to teach your future kids about Jehovah with this publication, if you yourself have not completed it?
Well if I have kids, I'll read it. I do the bible reading every week and that has the same info; it's not like I'm missing anything. Little kids just retain info better, especially if it's in story form. I wouldn't retain it better than a bible chapter at this age anyway.
Hey IF's can happen by mistake... I do agree though that the older you get the retention starts to diminish
well its nice to know you retain EVERYTHING from the bible and dont need bible aids. :P
sure the writing is for little kids, so it should be right on your level. oh! lol.
oh i still refer to my book of bible stories when i need to refresh my memory of something. it just explains everything so easily.
characters is the correct phrase...bible characters, even though it's true, they are still characters in a book.
one of my girlfriends joked that she is waiting for king david. he's strong but sensitive.
I think because we are reading about their lives and some portions of the bible are more like stories, sometimes, than historical accounts?
Various OED definitions for character:
-A person regarded in the abstract as the possessor of specified qualities; a personage, a personality.
-colloq. A person, man, fellow (freq. slightly derogatory)
-A personality invested with distinctive attributes and qualities, by a novelist or dramatist; also, the personality or ‘part’ assumed by an actor on the stage.