Holier Than Thou

It's true what they say. The more you read the Bible, the more questions you'll have about it. At our weekly BCF lunches, we have been working our way through some of those toughest questions...

Minor prophet of choice? Hosea.

Best dressed at the first Christmas pageant? The Wise Men.

Favorite plague? This was a hard one to come to a consensus on. Mostly because we could only name five ('Bubonic' was a favorite answer). I had expected the group to be outraged and say that it was wrong to appoint a favorite plague, but no one seemed to have any trouble with that. Blood. Locusts. Darkness. And of course, the classic Death to the Firstborn.

Once we assigned a favorite plague, that really paved the way for our next question:

If you called King Solomon's bluff, which half of the baby would you want (you can slice and dice any way you want, as long as it adds up to 50%)? Tim came up with the most economic model: Just the torso- so the organs made be harvested for a profit. Those were his words, not mine; please address your indignant angry letters to him.

Disciple with the best hair? A tough one. The Bible doesn't give us much to go on. And some of us weren't very familiar with Scripture (Tim: Paul! No? I mean, John the Baptist! No?) Rather reluctantly, we concluded that perhaps Judas had the best hair because, as Tim put it, "He's got to spend those shekels [from selling out Jesus] on something." Matthew was contender for awhile, because he was a well-off man that dealt with the public, but Tim, biblical expert that he is, asserted that he was much disliked, ergo, ugly.

With the wealth of Christian literature out there today, I'm surprised that there aren't more books written about this subject. Perhaps after we organize these weekly Bible study sessions more systematically, you'll be arguing about the superiority of a slingshot over a tent peg and mallet as murder weapons at a Sunday School near you. In the meantime, feel free to submit your own answers/questions.