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Bible's Top 10

Depending on the content and purpose, lists can make life easy or exhausting. Those aiding in comprehensive study and retention, simplify our grasp of significant truth, are clearly worth the effort.

Given the complexity of and challenges of life, help in deciphering its meaning and best practices is essential. Thankfully, Scripture provides all this and more. Still, the Protestant Bible is comprised of over 780,000 words, contained within more than 31,000 verses, collected into 66 Books. Failure to pay close attention may certainly mean missing many of Scripture most important lessons.

This is God’s Message, the God who made earth, made it livable and lasting... Call to me and I will answer you. I’ll tell you marvelous and wondrous things that you could never figure out on your own.

- Jeremiah 32:2-3 MSG

Life's rightly been called an adventure. A journey filled with highs and lows, hopes and fears, pleasure and pain. For millennia mankind has lived and reasoned, worked and wondered, prayed and praised attempting to derive as much happiness and meaning as possible in the fleeting years we are given.

By relationship and culture, dialogue and writing, failure and advancement, we chronicle our trek as individuals and societies. Through family and community, industry and art, music and musing, generations come and go seeking understanding and relevance. In regards to time and eternity.

In the Bible alone, religion and science reach their zenith. As do every other genre. From action and adventure, to crime and mystery. From thriller and occult, to fantasy and science fiction. Each on a global and eternal scale! So much so, Scripture rightfully and frequently testifies of its own excellence, as King David's extolled:

"The law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul. The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple. The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes. The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever. The decrees of the Lord are firm, and all of them are righteous. They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the honeycomb. By them your servant is warned; in keeping them there is great reward. But who can discern their own errors? Forgive my hidden faults. Keep your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless, innocent of great transgression. May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer." Psalms 19:7-14 NIV

Justifiably high praise indeed. Yet, even among the Bible's adherents, surprisingly few take the whole Bible seriously. Many are too busy to care. Others feel guilty. Many verses are too violent. Others can be offensive. Some passages seem mythological. Others beyond the realm of sci-fi. Not to mention frequent feelings of isolation and frustration exacerbated by the perceived silence and distance of God.

All such objections deserve answers. Quantum Christianity has been designed as a bridge between general revelation, as revealed by nature and science, and special revelation, as reveled by Scripture and Christianity. As wells as to narrow the growing gap between 1st century Biblical Christianity and 21st century modern Churchianity by providing a plethora of articles and books, modern psalms and contemporary proverbs. Even so, a few Biblical cliff notes might be in order.

For this purpose, following list of ten are offered for consideration and discourse. Top 10 nominees are submitted within the categories of Biblical Concepts and Crucial Scriptures, Doctrinal Errors and Lifestyle Challenges. And more.

Bible's Top 10

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