How Do You Read The Bible?

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Gracie_14

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OR with your cat...
 
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claysmithr

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I also figured out how to get Alexa to read it to me! It helps with reading it.
 
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I read my bible over and over for the first few years. Then I began to read it less but...He recalls what I need from it to my mind.

Don't get me wrong, I still read it. I just don't sit and read it for hours on end as I used to. In the mornings, I sit and talk with Him and my bible is there always, but a lot of the time I don't open it because...I don't need to when I'm communing with Him. I used to actually have a problem with reading the bible instead of communing. It sort of became an excuse to not go directly to Him and push through that...cloud that seems to surround Him.

I don't...study it often, unless He leads me to it. It's more like...He recalls a verse to my mind and then I might find that verse to read all the verses that surround it.
 
Prov910

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I read the Old Testament through, Genesis to Malachi, shortly after my college years. Then a few years later I read the New Testament. And read it again. Then I read the bible end to end. Now I generally read and study a particular passage or chapter, sometimes reading a book of the bible.

I met a minister a few years ago who had read the bible fifty something times, once for each year of his life he beamed proudly. During our conversation he also told me that the Holy Spirit didn't exist in the world today—it hadn't been on earth to imbue believers since the early days Christianity shortly after Pentecost. I have a hard time reconciling those two things: read the bible 50+ times yet doesn't believe in the Holy Spirit. That is just odd. :shrug:
 
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blue_ladybug said:
Another thing is, I lose interest after a few seconds. :( I'd like to be able to focus on reading it for at least 20 minutes or so. But my mind is always on a dozen other things at once.
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That's because you aren't asking yourself the right questions. When you are reading, you are supposed to be digging to find those answers and it keeps you engaged. Ask who are the characters? what is the plot? Who is the protagonist? antagonist? What is the climax? etc.
 
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With a sincere and contrite heart praying that the Holy Spirit will impart unto me what He wants me to learn.
 
Prov910

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blue_ladybug said:
Another thing is, I lose interest after a few seconds. :( I'd like to be able to focus on reading it for at least 20 minutes or so. But my mind is always on a dozen other things at once.
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I think many of us are like that sometimes. If I'm reading more than a few verses I often say a prayer asking Him to allow me to have a tranquil, focused mind, and understand His word.

And when my thoughts stray and I get to the end of a column without remembering what I read, I just read it again. Once in a while I have to read a passage three times, or sometimes even four times, to finally get through it. But I'd rather read the bible slowly and thoroughly and get something from it, rather than just racing through it to check an agenda item off my list.
 
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I ask the Holy Spirit to lead me , teach me what I do not know...I ask for a crumb even , just a little something ...If I am going through things that will cause me to be fearful , like hospital appointments coming up , I go to Scripture where Jesus speaks of comfort , if I need more patience , then I would look up patience , whatever I am going through I find the Scriptures that I can cling to for the season , when I am at full peace , content then I read through...I have just started reading Acts because I have an interest of how Paul started his ministry in the Lord , you kind of get lost in the scene :) God's word is truly alive...xox...
 
Bladerunner

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blue_ladybug said:
Do you read it from Genesis to Revelation? Do you jump around in it? Or, like me, do you close your eyes, open your bible, point to somewhere on the page, and wherever your hand lands, is what you read? LOL
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thats called the 'Holy Roller', I would bet you will credit what verse you wind up pointing at; to the Holy Spirit.... But in actuality it is commonly seen in the magical realm and witchcraft.


If you want to read the Bible and get anything out of it from the front cover to the end cover, there are a few things that you must realize before you start reading.


Dispensations are common and can be demonstrated. They are where God treats a certain time period different from the other time periods. (i.e during the Creation Period...there was only one command. (don't eat the fruit of a specific tree). The judgement was also different in many ways than judgements from other time periods....

There are seven major dispensations: (1) Creation (2) Pre-Flood (3) Post Flood -Pre-Law (4) The Law (5) Period of Grace (6) Daniel's 70th Week [Tribulation Period] (7) Millennium

......Note: There are many that will disagree with these dispensations. One can make as many as or a few as they see fit. All through the Bible the Number 7 screams Completion and the end of the Millennium is the end of the Human existence in the body form we are in now.

The Bible is a story of a Nation, a People that God deemed His People. The whole purpose of the Bible is to bring those people to a place that they will unconditionally accept Jesus Christ as their Messiah. As a byproduct, Gentiles ( a people mostly forgotten until the period of Grace) are also saved by the Grace of God through a special lens where only the true belief in Jesus Christ and His Gospel will give them salvation.

Hermeneutics: the study of the methodological principles of interpretation...

My Hermeneutics from the Front Cover of the Holy Bible to the End Cover is:

Literal with a Historical background and the full range of Grammatical operations in the four languages of the Bible. (Hebrew, Greek [Koinia and New], Aramaic, Latin and English.) Note: While other languages are certainly present throughout the world, few have affected the Bible reader more than these mentioned languages have had.

May you have a blessed day.

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blue_ladybug

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Prov, I don't "race through it just to check an agenda item off my list"... I'd LOVE to be able to sit and focus on reading the bible for a significant length of time..and a few seconds or minutes is NOT sufficient IMO..

Prov910 said:
I think many of us are like that sometimes. If I'm reading more than a few verses I often say a prayer asking Him to allow me to have a tranquil, focused mind, and understand His word.

And when my thoughts stray and I get to the end of a column without remembering what I read, I just read it again. Once in a while I have to read a passage three times, or sometimes even four times, to finally get through it. But I'd rather read the bible slowly and thoroughly and get something from it, rather than just racing through it to check an agenda item off my list.
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blue_ladybug

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Well, I'm certainly not trying to practice witchcraft..lol


Bladerunner said:
thats called the 'Holy Roller', I would bet you will credit what verse you wind up pointing at; to the Holy Spirit.... But in actuality it is commonly seen in the magical realm and witchcraft.


If you want to read the Bible and get anything out of it from the front cover to the end cover, there are a few things that you must realize before you start reading.


Dispensations are common and can be demonstrated. They are where God treats a certain time period different from the other time periods. (i.e during the Creation Period...there was only one command. (don't eat the fruit of a specific tree). The judgement was also different in many ways than judgements from other time periods....

There are seven major dispensations: (1) Creation (2) Pre-Flood (3) Post Flood -Pre-Law (4) The Law (5) Period of Grace (6) Daniel's 70th Week [Tribulation Period] (7) Millennium

......Note: There are many that will disagree with these dispensations. One can make as many as or a few as they see fit. All through the Bible the Number 7 screams Completion and the end of the Millennium is the end of the Human existence in the body form we are in now.

The Bible is a story of a Nation, a People that God deemed His People. The whole purpose of the Bible is to bring those people to a place that they will unconditionally accept Jesus Christ as their Messiah. As a byproduct, Gentiles ( a people mostly forgotten until the period of Grace) are also saved by the Grace of God through a special lens where only the true belief in Jesus Christ and His Gospel will give them salvation.

Hermeneutics: the study of the methodological principles of interpretation...

My Hermeneutics from the Front Cover of the Holy Bible to the End Cover is:

Literal with a Historical background and the full range of Grammatical operations in the four languages of the Bible. (Hebrew, Greek [Koinia and New], Aramaic, Latin and English.) Note: While other languages are certainly present throughout the world, few have affected the Bible reader more than these mentioned languages have had.

May you have a blessed day.

Blade
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I'm currently on my 4th reading of the entire bible but this is the first time that I started from Genesis and reading each book in order until the end of Revelation. Usually a couple chapters a day, more if the chapters are short. In addition, my wife and I do a quarterly study based on a certain spiritual topic. This study entails reading and study of particular pertinent verses related to the current lesson. Based on how the Holy Spirit moves me I will read certain verses depending on what's on my plate at the time.
 
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claysmithr

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Forgot to mention that I read it once in the morning and once at night. I find reading it in the morning before anything else blesses my day!
 
blue_ladybug

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I try to read it in the morning and at night...and usually fail miserably.. :(

claysmithr said:
Forgot to mention that I read it once in the morning and once at night. I find reading it in the morning before anything else blesses my day!
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I read the Bible in different ways for different purposes. Reading through the Bible can be very profitable and is a good plan for daily reading. When preparing to teach or participate in a Bible study, I think about a specific passage in depth using a concordance to compare parallel passages. For the last 16 years, I have been writing a commentary on the Bible. When I comment on a book of the Bible; I first parse it chapter by chapter in the original language. Then I refresh my understanding of the Historical context of the time in which it was written. Then I study any parallel passages of Scripture. Then I write my initial comments on each chapter. Then I read Adam Clarke, Albert Barnes, Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, John Gill, and Charles Ellicott on the chapter. Then I write or cite my final comments.
 
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TrustingGod4life

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blue_ladybug said:
Do you read it from Genesis to Revelation? Do you jump around in it? Or, like me, do you close your eyes, open your bible, point to somewhere on the page, and wherever your hand lands, is what you read? LOL
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All three that you said for me lol I'm learning more to read one book and chapter. I also read bible plans
 
Deade

Deade

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I read mine with my eyes too, lol. I have read my bible cover to cover one chapter after the other many times. That is not my favorite way to do it though. I guess it's a matter of principal and the fear that I would miss something.

My wife and I got a big family bible and went through color underlining different references like faith, hope, love and spirit. That was enlightening and fun. Topic study keeps one engaged and becomes spiritually profitable.

The main thing is to keep reading, and living god's word. In doing so, the word becomes alive and is embedded in your heart and mind. Yours, Deade


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