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Holy Bible (NIV)
#210 of 16,667 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
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- people
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- podcasts
- 7
- episodes
- 16
- critical mentions
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If you read the first three or four chapters of Genesis, and you don't see the human condition plumb to its depths, you're not reading it right.
Andrew Klavan · The Rubin Report · Dec 2023 Listen at 21:12 What they say about it
- Reads the Bible“read the Bible”4
- Sales and readership“sells 2000 copies every hour”3
- Cultural foundation“reason why the Jewish people”3
The best things said about it
The book's the book, you know, and we're the people of the book, and that book is the reason why the Jewish people are still around today, 3,500 years later, when every other ancient civilization is gone.
The more I look at literal gospel Christianity from the good book itself, the more it's somehow unraveling, melting away, throwing out my preconceptions, my arid, ardent, severe sense of materialism and replacing it with a certainty only in love—a certainty only in our ability to have a relationship with an indwelling God that died for us.
And I find great comfort when I go back and read the Bible, read the prophets, read their hopes and values and dreams.
The Bible is essentially the first library of books, crafted by a large number of different authors over thousands of years, sequenced into a coherent narrative.
Jordan Peterson Modern Wisdom · Nov 2023 The values that we hold dear in America came from the Bible.
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How it comes up
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Why people recommend it
Holy Bible (NIV) by Various Authors is a foundational collection of sacred scriptures that has shaped Western civilization, religious traditions, and literary history for millennia. On The Rubin Report, Andrew Klavan recommended reading the opening chapters of Genesis to experience a profound exploration of the human condition, while David M. Friedman described the scriptures as the vital text that has kept Jewish communities together for thousands of years. On The Megyn Kelly Show, Shawn Ryan pointed to the volume while discussing current world events and his own personal faith journey, noting that contemporary happenings are reflected within its pages. Joe Rogan compared biblical accounts to the Dead Sea Scrolls on his podcast, observing that while some ancient stories were omitted from standard compilations, many shared striking similarities. Russell Brand discussed his personal journey into Christianity on The Rubin Report, sharing how reading the gospels replaced his materialist preconceptions with a certainty centered on love. Furthermore, the hosts of No Stupid Questions explored the oral tradition of the Old Testament stories, and Megyn Kelly highlighted how these texts informed profound life shifts for her guests, reinforcing the enduring cultural and spiritual significance of the scriptures across diverse media platforms.
Every mention
David M. Friedman But the book's the book, you know, and we're the people of the book, and that book is the reason why the Je… 9
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“- Look, I think I might have mentioned this the last time around, but there is a reason why the Bible still sells 2000 copies every hour.”
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“I mean, the path back really is, I think we need to read the Bible.”
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“And I find great comfort when I go back and read the Bible, read the prophets, read their hopes and values and dreams.”
Discussed
“And again, the lead may not appeal to everybody, but the lead is that it's also the land of the Bible, you know? And the Bible still sells more books than, last time I checked, it sells like 2,400 books an hour. Hmm. Okay.”
Discussed
“And the Bible still sells more books than, last time I checked, it sells like 2,400 books an hour. Hmm. Okay. The Bible matters.”
Discussed
“I mean, you know, the values that we hold dear in America came from the Bible. I mean, you know, the Declaration of Independence says that, "Human rights were endowed by our creator," right?”
Discussed
“And all those rights, you know, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, they're sourced right into the Bible. I mean, you can look in the Bible and see exactly where our founders got those rights versus any other human rights.”
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“But the book's the book, you know, and we're the people of the book, and that book is the reason why the Jewish people are still around today, 3,500 years later, when every other ancient civilization is gone. It's the book, it's the book that kept us together.”
Discussed
“It's the book, it's the book that kept us together. Again, whether you believe in God or not, the book kept us together.”
Andrew Klavan And to be honest, if you read the first three or four chapters of Genesis, and you don't see the human cond… 2
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“They're the authors of the Bible. You don't have to believe in God to understand that this is true.”
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“And to be honest, if you read the first three or four chapters of Genesis, and you don't see the human condition plumb to its depths, you're not reading it right.”
Jordan Peterson All of these elements exist within the Bible, correlating God with the essence of all that is good. 2
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“All of these elements exist within the Bible, correlating God with the essence of all that is good.”
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“Yes, the Bible is essentially the first library of books, crafted by a large number of different authors over thousands of years, sequenced into a coherent narrative.”
Shawn Ryan And it's all in that book; everything we're seeing happening right now isn't that how you started just read… 2
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“And it's all in that book; everything we're seeing happening right now isn't that how you started just reading the Bible?”
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“But then turns out, as it turns out my entire team, I'm really close with my team, my podcast team, the guys that work for me and make it what it is, and turns out one guy was raised Southern Baptist, super well-versed in the Bible, my editor Darren grew up a Jehovah's Witness and escaped it but knows that”
C. Bradley Thompson or what it for instance what are the books that one can read Well it's it's never the Bible it is Aristotle… 1
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“or what it for instance what are the books that one can read Well it's it's never the Bible it is Aristotle Nicomachean ethics Cicero cicero's de o'fee key Seneca and epictetus”
Chris Williamson Based on what you're reading, you're trying to grapple with religious texts, especially the Bible. 1
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“Based on what you're reading, you're trying to grapple with religious texts, especially the Bible.”
Daryl Davis and in my bag I had a cassette recorder blank cassette tapes and copy of the Bible because the Ku Klux Klan… 1
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“and in my bag I had a cassette recorder blank cassette tapes and copy of the Bible because the Ku Klux Klan claims to be a Christian organization and they claim that the Bible preaches racial separation now I've read through the Bible I've never seen that in there so I want to be able to pull out my Bible”
Dennis Quaid and uh it was uh at 30 days and I I was lucky I got it and uh you know I spent pretty much the next kind of… 1
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“and uh it was uh at 30 days and I I was lucky I got it and uh you know I spent pretty much the next kind of four years kind of grinding my teeth and and so I started uh I I read the Bible Again cover to cover and um I was really struck by the red words”
Dinesh D'Souza so I would argue that the if you were to look at three books anyone that took any you know the big three mo… 1
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“so I would argue that the if you were to look at three books anyone that took any you know the big three monotheistic books uh that anyone that took any of these books literally there is a tremendous amount of violence in all of them but you have to look at the ideology because only one of those big”
Emily Austin I'm not super religious, but I'm definitely spiritual, and like if you open a book like the Bible, this is… 1
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“I'm not super religious, but I'm definitely spiritual, and like if you open a book like the Bible, this is the end of times we're living in. And it sounds silly, but if you read it, it's like everything perceived to be wrong will be perceived as right.”
Joe Rogan that's the oldest version of the stories that wound up in the Bible it's not necessarily the Bible it's yea… 1
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“that's the oldest version of the stories that wound up in the Bible it's not necessarily the Bible it's yeah some stuff in the Dead Sea Scrolls didn't make the cut for the like it didn't get in there but a lot of the stories are kind of similar but there's a lot of wild [ __ ] in there”
Megyn Kelly It's all in that book; everything we're seeing happening right now is in that book. Is that how you started… 1
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“It's all in that book; everything we're seeing happening right now is in that book. Is that how you started, just reading the Bible?”
Russell Brand The more I look at literal gospel Christianity from the good book itself, the more it's somehow unraveling,… 1
Discussed
“The more I look at literal gospel Christianity from the good book itself, the more it's somehow unraveling, melting away, throwing out my preconceptions, my arid, ardent, severe sense of materialism and replacing it with a certainty only in love—a certainty only in our ability to have a relationship with an indwelling God that died for us.”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker3
Discussed
“There was the era of BS troubadours, and you know, the Bible, the Old Testament, at least I should specify, all of which existed pre-written language. It's hard to imagine that they were passed along orally, but they were.”
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“...a belief that was grounded in the Bible and in the Bible what you find is a curious mix of you know brotherly love and frightful wrath”
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“I hope that jordan peterson can get there in his bible series lecture because i want to know his take on that what the other historical precedent might have been for that”
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Other mentions (27: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“That’s interesting, too, when you switch between New International Version of the Bible in King James and some of the other newer versions of the Bible, Book of Mormon... yeah.”
Passing
“I can't remember which version of that makes it into your book.”
Passing
“Oh my gosh, the beefs are in the Bible, you know what I mean? It goes back a little while.”
Passing
“Proverbs 28 reads, 'The wicked flee though no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion,' and that truly epitomizes Donald Trump.”
Passing
“If you read Ephesians 6:11 in the Bible, it reads as follows in part: 'Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes.' 611, he was shot, and that's 611.”
Passing
“That's how I started reading the Bible. I did; I tried to read it from front to back, but I wasn't really getting anywhere.”
Passing
“You know where I read it? I read it in the Bible!”
Passing
“We will get back to Hernandez soon enough, but if you want to read a really wild book about immigration, you might start with the Bible. Almost everything in the Hebrew Bible has some touch point with migration, and that is, my name is Roger Nam.”
Passing
“Dan, which of the following real blog posts on the Covenant Eyes website would John be most eager to read: Post A, 'What Does the Bible Say About Masturbation?' or Post B, 'When Jesus Used Technology'?”
Passing
“Someone asked me today in the media, they said, 'It's curious, people are curious, what does Mike Johnson think about any issue under the sun?' I said, 'Well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it. That's what I believe.'”
Passing
“Let's do it right here on the show; we're gonna migrate you from book one to book two. There's a sequel; it's better than the first one.”
Passing
“Just so you know, I actually started out in your camp. I grew up Catholic; my parents were both Jewish who, before they met each other, converted to Catholicism and then they met and fell in love with each other.”
Passing
“I mean, I remember reading the Bible: you first read the Bible and you're like, okay, and they destroyed themselves.”
Passing
“from the parable of the sour told by Jesus or Jesus and record it to the New Testament of the Bible the term appearing in Matthew 13 colon 4 Mark Mark 14.4 [ __ ] Luke oh he's dragging ass 8.5 the parable is the story of a farmer who sows seeds and some Fall by the wayside and it”
Passing
“it reminds me a little bit of this story about the school district in Utah a liberal parent said well you I I think you should ban the Bible because the Bible talks about sex and the Bible's pornographic scenes”
Passing
“that's why I was having a conversation with someone about the historical significance of the Bible and he was arguing for the resurrection”
Passing
“You know we can uh we can take it to the Bible if you want to I've got a verse here from the King James version uh from Luke you want to go this way... This is Luke 16 13 It says no servant can serve two masters Or either he will hate the one and love the other or”
Passing
“But we'd bring a big book with us and do a meeting every now and then. But we're drunk, yeah, but we tried, you know?”
Passing
“Damn, onward out of that hellhole communist state, uh, and yeah man, I think you're right about the end times, you know, the last chapter, uh, the last book, which is Revelation. I know you said Ephesians, but it is Revelation, which I'm sure you knew that, but uh, I didn't know that brother, but I appreciate it.”
Passing
“I mean the sociologist Mickey McGee has written about the idea that the Bible is one of the first and perhaps the most significant self-help book in history”
Passing
“have you seen all the grasshoppers in vegas Yes it's crazy that's in the bible Yeah it's in the bible”
Passing
“i don't believe in dinosaurs because i'm you know i i have something called the bible at home”
Passing
“you talk about a guy that [ __ ] went somewhere tried to convert a tribe you know they showed up with a [ __ ] Bible”
Passing
“I don't know if you guys have ever read like a lot of history books or the Bible or you know different type of Muslim Muslim literature or slim literature some people say instead of Muslim a lot of people say slim”
Passing
“I'm even even in the Bible if you go back to Adam you know you wanted to get that fruit”
Passing
“I don't let let them learn me you know I learn myself through the you know I read the Bible a lot I go to God a lot”
Passing
“you don't really need to believe in the scripture to concede that there is no one definitive reading of Shakespeare there's no one definitive reading of the Bible And there's no one definitive reading of the Quran”