Last one. Something to offend all those Christians
Frank Bible Quotes: TobitIt's Sunday, so it's time for Bible study. In the Catholic Bible, there are some books that the other Christian Bibles don't include, so I thought it would be educational for all to quote some from one of them. Let's read The Book of Tobit together and meditate on it.
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1 This book tells the story of Tobit, son of Tobiel, son of Hannaniel, son of Aduel, son of Gabael of the family Asiel, of the tribe Naphtali, 2 who during the reign of Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, was a devoted servant to the Lord.
3 One day the Lord called unto Tobit, "Young Tobit, I call thee." 4 And Tobit did say, "Yes, Lord, I am here and always your willing servant. Though times may be hard, I shall always..."
5 "Yeah, yeah," interrupted the Lord, "That is all well and good, but don't touch My stuff." 6 And Tobit did reply, "I am sorry, Lord, but Your words are a mystery to me." 7 Then the Lord did sayeth, "My stuff, in that box over there labeled 'God's Stuff''... Don't touch it! Capisce?"
8 Tobit did say, "The Lord does not have to worry about the devotion of Tobit. I will never think of touching Your... uh... stuff." 9 "Don't give me that!" commandeth the Lord, "I saw you looking at My stuff!" 10 "I'm sorry, Lord," Tobit said, his eyes towards the ground, "I am but mortal and cannot help but wonder what lies in the box that is grand that the Lord Himself would call it 'God's Stuff.'"
11 "That's My business," the Lord did reply, "Now stay out of it. I don't want you or anyone else getting their grubby hands on My stuff." 12 "Then it shall be the job of humble Tobit to see to it that no one touches the things of the Lord," Tobit proclaimed, "From this day forward, none shall even come near..."
13 "Whatever," the Lord did interrupt again, "Just don't touch My stuff and we're cool." 14 Thus Tobit held back his curiosity and fought off all others such that God's stuff would go unmolested.
Chapter 21 The Lord once appeared to Tobit. In His mighty hand was a spear, which He then held out to the humble Tobit. 2 "Take this and hide it somewhere," commandeth the Lord, "and, if anyone comes around asking about Me, say you ain't seen Me."
3 "Am I supposed to deny my lord?" asked Tobit as he accepted the spear. 4 "Why do you have to make things complicated, Tobit?" answered the Lord, "Just say you haven't seen Me in the past day. And stash that spear someplace good or I swear to Me I'll smite ya."
5 "Uh... I will not fail thee, my Lord," Tobit stated as he peered at the spear. 6 "You better not," threatened the Lord, "now all I need is an alibi. Since I'm everywhere at once, I guess that means I always have an alibi... or does that mean I never have an alibi. Whatcha think, Tobit?"
7 "And what exactly is this all about, Almighty?" Tobit queried. 8 "This is not the time for questions, Toby!" the Lord said with a thunderous voice, "Man, I think I hear people coming. You just hide that spear, and I'll handle the rest."
9 "Whatever you command, Lord, it shall be done," Tobit said, "For I am a..." 10 In a flash, though, the Lord was gone as there was a knock at Tobit's door. Tobit dutifully hid the spear, and the Lord got away scott-free.
Chapter 31 Tobit was walking through town one morning when he encountered the devil. "You will not tempt me to evil!" Tobit declared, "I am a trustworthy servant of the Lord." 2 The devil, surprised, turned around and said, "What?" 3 "I know thou are evil and are here for evil purposes!" Tobit yelled.
4 "I'm buying a mango," the devil answered. 5 "For what foul schemes?" Tobit questioned the evil being. 6 "I like mangos," the devil declared, "Hey, dingus, I'm not working 24/7 to cause the fall of man, okay? Can't a fallen angel get himself a frick'n mango without getting yelled at?"
7 "You can't fool me, man-goat!" Tobit said firmly, "I know thou are here for nefarious purposes!" 8 The devil rolled his sinister eyes. "Fine," he said, "Hey, Tobit, why don't you do evil and kill people?" 9 "Never!" Tobit screamed, "I will never do the bidding of the devil!"
10 "Well, there, you beat me, Tobit," the devil said, waving his hands in the air, "You resisted my evil temptation. Whoopee! You happy?" 11 The devil then walked off with his mango with one final utterance, "Wanker." 12 And thus Tobit continued his service to the Lord, never giving into the temptation of the devil.
Chapter 41 After Tobit had finished plowing his field, he came to rest and said unto the Lord, "Oh, thou art great for creating such a world in but seven days. 2 "Yeah, seven days," God chuckled. 3 "What is so humorous, Lord?" Tobit did query. 4 "In actually took me a whole month just to figure out where to put the sky," God answered, "I chose 'up', BTW."
5 Tobit was confused. "But in the book of Genesis it says..." 6 "Yeah, I know," God interrupted, "You see, Adam was always talking off My ear and asking questions. One day he asked Me, 'How long did it take you to make the world?' and I told him, 'Seven days' just to brush him off." 7 God laughed some more. "That doofus believed Me. Later I let him get a taste of his own medicine by making a creature to chat endlessly into his ear - woman."
8 "So what the Bible says is wrong?" Tobit asked. 9 God paused for a moment. "Not 'wrong'; it's just embellished a bit by a few miscomprehensions that I decided not to correct." 10 "Then did you flood the entire world back in the time of Noah?" Tobit questioned. 11 "Not the 'entire' world; there's not enough water for that." God paused for a moment to think. "Well, I could melt the ice caps and make some geographical shifts to put the entire world under water - nah, that's too impractical."
12 Tobit became more confused. "So, what did you flood?" 13 "Just the area Noah was in," God answered, "See I told Noah, 'Hey, I don't like these people so I'm going to flood the place. You build yourself a boat.' For some reason, Noah thought the apocalypse was coming, starts quoting cubits to me, and gathering up two of each animal. He was so worked up, I didn't have the heart to correct him. 14 Then, when he reaches dry land, he sees a rainbow and asks if that's a symbol of my promise to never flood the entire world again. So, I have the choice to either explain to him the refraction of light and that I never flooded the world in the first place, or to just say, 'Yes.'" 15 God laughed some more. "I'm God! I reserve the right to rend the universe apart anytime I feel like it. In fact..."
16 Suddenly, God was perturbed. "What are you doing there, Tobit?" 17 Tobit continued to write on a scroll. "I'm writing down your words to share them with all." 18 "Whoa! Not so fast!" God cautioned, "I thought it was clear I was talking off the record here. Now why don't you hand over that scroll..." 19 "No!" Tobit shouted as he held the scroll tight, "I'm sharing your word." 20 "You give me that scroll, Tobit!" God shouted. "No, mine!" Tobit answered.
21 "You've made a powerful enemy," God swore, "A powerful enemy. Why, I'll make sure that at least seven out of ten Bibles don't even mention you. God then stormed out. 22 "I wonder how long He can keep a grudge?" Tobit mused to himself as he put away the scroll.