How Do You Read The Bible?

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so-jesus-e-deus

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I read the Holy Scripture as taught by Paul and John:


  • "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual." (1Co 2.12,13).
  • "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book." (Rev 22.18,19).
 
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Gracie_14

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blue_ladybug said:
I used to read alot of books. Especially at night, a few pages or so. Depending on how tired I was, or how interesting the book was. LOL.. Problem is, I always read the ending first. Maybe if I got a chronological bible, it might be more interesting for me to read. MY KJV is hard to understand with all the "thees" and "thous" and whatever..
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no wonder Blue! KJV is like such an old version... the Bible doesn't sound so up to date, if you will. :D you need to get a different version/translation. i think you should try the New Living Translation. how could you read the Bible when you can't even understand the version? that's why it sounds so boring and all... just saying :)
 
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Lucy-Pevensie

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blue_ladybug

blue_ladybug

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Cuz it's big print and my daddy gave it to me.. lol

But I do have an easier to read bible. Problem is it's heavy as heck..

Gracie_14 said:
no wonder Blue! KJV is like such an old version... the Bible doesn't sound so up to date, if you will. :D you need to get a different version/translation. i think you should try the New Living Translation. how could you read the Bible when you can't even understand the version? that's why it sounds so boring and all... just saying :)
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Stunnedbygrace

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Gracie_14 said:
no wonder Blue! KJV is like such an old version... the Bible doesn't sound so up to date, if you will. :D you need to get a different version/translation. i think you should try the New Living Translation. how could you read the Bible when you can't even understand the version? that's why it sounds so boring and all... just saying :)
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I read NLT for 9 years. Its what I had. I have some others now but I keep going back to that NLT! Love it. He has taught me by it. :)
 
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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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Haha, I read the Bible all different ways- even in the ways you pointed out. But I think the best way is to read it through like a book.
 
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blue_ladybug said:
I used to read alot of books. Especially at night, a few pages or so. Depending on how tired I was, or how interesting the book was. LOL.. Problem is, I always read the ending first. Maybe if I got a chronological bible, it might be more interesting for me to read. MY KJV is hard to understand with all the "thees" and "thous" and whatever..
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The only difference between a chronological bible and the Bible is where Job lands, some of the Law is out of order, and you probably get David's Psalms at the times he wrote them.

Read the ending first, if that does it for you. I'm like that sometimes. Besides, we know it ends in glory, so, Yay, Lord!

So read it like a book. As your relaxing in bed for the night start reading until your tired.

You really just can't get deeper meanings until you get general meaning. So don't try so hard for deeper meanings. Relax into it for the general meanings. It really is a thriller. An epic. A Magnus Opum. Think about it. You're about to read the best selling book of all times. What makes it that? Read for that answer only.
 
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Gracie_14 said:
no wonder Blue! KJV is like such an old version... the Bible doesn't sound so up to date, if you will. :D you need to get a different version/translation. i think you should try the New Living Translation. how could you read the Bible when you can't even understand the version? that's why it sounds so boring and all... just saying :)
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Is Romeo and Juliet out of date? Is Hamlet? King James is written in the same time period. Once you get over the thees and thous, it is as up to date as any other version. (NLT is a translation. KJV is a version. There are significant meanings to those two words.) It's like reading Shakespeare after getting over his tendency toward iambic pentameter. Just read the words like they're sentences, not like they're lines in a poem. And poof! Suddenly it's up to date.

(I'm a ESV kinda gal, but had no problems with King Jimmy when I read it.)
 
blue_ladybug

blue_ladybug

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No, I mean I would read the endings of my books. LOL. To see who dunnit, or if the guy gets the girl, etc..I know how the bible ends, though I admit I haven't read much of Revelation..

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The only difference between a chronological bible and the Bible is where Job lands, some of the Law is out of order, and you probably get David's Psalms at the times he wrote them.

Read the ending first, if that does it for you. I'm like that sometimes. Besides, we know it ends in glory, so, Yay, Lord!

So read it like a book. As your relaxing in bed for the night start reading until your tired.

You really just can't get deeper meanings until you get general meaning. So don't try so hard for deeper meanings. Relax into it for the general meanings. It really is a thriller. An epic. A Magnus Opum. Think about it. You're about to read the best selling book of all times. What makes it that? Read for that answer only.
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blue_ladybug said:
Cuz it's big print and my daddy gave it to me.. lol

But I do have an easier to read bible. Problem is it's heavy as heck..
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Ooooh! That's when that hit! I remember reading with my legs propped up in bed as a book holder. Then that stopped working because I had to do the arm stretches that come with middle-age, right before bifocals. And by the time I actually got bifocals, leaning a book against my legs had left the building for how to read for so long, I forgot how to do that. So, that hit in my 40s, huh? I forgot when that hit. lol
 
blue_ladybug

blue_ladybug

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Hah.. That hit when I was 27. That's when all my major health problems cropped up... lol


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Ooooh! That's when that hit! I remember reading with my legs propped up in bed as a book holder. Then that stopped working because I had to do the arm stretches that come with middle-age, right before bifocals. And by the time I actually got bifocals, leaning a book against my legs had left the building for how to read for so long, I forgot how to do that. So, that hit in my 40s, huh? I forgot when that hit. lol
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FlyingDove

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All scripture was written for us. Not all scripture is written to us.

Scripture Study Tips

When dissecting any verse of scripture. Ask yourself, of whom, to whom, with what words, what time, where, to what intent, with what circumstances, considering what is written before and what follows any single verse context.
^^^Myles Coverdale, Bible theologian/translator^^^
 
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blue_ladybug said:
No, I mean I would read the endings of my books. LOL. To see who dunnit, or if the guy gets the girl, etc..I know how the bible ends, though I admit I haven't read much of Revelation..
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I know. I usually read the first couple of pages, then had to read the last chapter to make sure the character got the appropriate ending. (If I already liked the character, she/he better not die, or I'm not going to be a party to that death, kind of thing. lol)

So read Revelations first, (and again, not to get some deeper meaning out of it. Just to get that everything seems to go wrong, but God still wins), and then you'll know how it ends in the beginning. It really works, because you know how it turns out, so you can see all the stuff that leads to that, even though it doesn't seem like that mess should lead to that. It really is a good book.

As a writer, I'm really in tune with did-not-expect-that-to-happen, followed immediately with seeing how that plays into the longer story. I love rereading books too because in the second read, I see all the foreshadowing I missed the first time. I sometimes hate getting to the climax, because the rising action seemed so discombobulated, it couldn't possibly have a positive outcome, (except I read the end, so know it does lol), and I love a great climax. But after the great climax, I love the slow-down, and how everything settles in, all to get me to the point of knowing the character does get his happily-ever-after. I love all that, and the Bible has all of that.

Better than Star Wars.
Better than Harry Potter.
Better than LotRs.
Better than Sherlock Holmes.

And, bonus points: It's all true! :eek:
 
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Lucy-Pevensie

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Joseppi

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I read the Holy Bible by faith in Jesus, knowing the Holy Ghost will lead me into all truth, as Jesus said.
I let the Holy Ghost lead my reading and study,
The Holy Ghost brings to my rememberance what I have read in faith and grows my understanding.
Doing this requires prayerfulness also, not just expectation.
I find that prayer awakens my spirit to hear well.
 
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DJ777

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Reading the word continually is most important, that is just reading large sections at a time. Like reading 5-10 chapters at once.
Make sure your reading the king James version as it's most accurate on word translation.
Stay away from the likes of the message bible or the NLT bible as they are WRONG. I've researched this and many many verses are totally wrong.
It's only as you read the word over and over that you get it in your spirit and it becomes a part of you. Only then will your relationship with God grow to where it should be.
I know this to be true from experience.
 
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mrh35

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I am currently doing the bible in a year through UCB and yes there are some days where the chapters are going over the same things the latter part of Exodus and Leviticus and its hard to keep going but its a discipline thats required to gain a full understanding of the Lord and what has gone before us to enable us to be here today.
Praise the Lord
 
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