Talking about the Bible

Basically, I’m talking about these two things:

-“Have you read the entire bible?”

-“What type of bible do you like reading? I’m talking if it’s NIV, ESV, King James, etc.”

So to answer my questions, yes I still need to read the whole bible, I tried when I first saw how important God is when I was in college, but got distracted easily cause I knew God, but I feel with this pandemic it has given me the time to really think, and I decided that I wish to fully follow God, even if people get mad at me for being Christian, I will stand my ground. Yes sometimes being criticized still hurts, but God said following wasn’t going to be easy.

Anyway, I was using one of those “Read the Bible in 365 days” and my mom mentioned how I should try to read the Bible cause I showed interest in the scripture (I was telling her about how the “Horror lovers” thread, the main person who made it, is going to try to do a deep dive and find verses of horror themes in the Bible. I just found it interesting someone could see that in the Bible, my mom definitely agrees because a lot of scary and intense stuff does happen in the Bible), but I realized I just need to read the whole bible regardless, I can’t remember scripture well, this reading the whole bible might help, lol.

For the types of Bibles I read, they are NIV and sometimes ESV, cause our church uses ESV. From my understanding, it doesn’t matter which bible type you use to read, cause they all contain the same message, just worded differently in each one. Please don’t get mad, I know some stuff, but I haven’t thought to do a “deep google research” on this subject.

But I wanna hear what y’all have to say, share opinions ^_^

My first thought is that reading the whole Bible is a good goal, but you don't have to have the achievement of having read the whole Bible, word for word, letter for letter, from front to back, to claim having learned a lot of valuable information.

I read the Bible for the sake of spiritual growth so i tens to meander through the Bible as the Spirit leads. Other times I just follow random daily devotions.

I have seen some Bible apps have whole Bible reading plans which divide the Bible up in 365 days.

You could try setting a goal of getting the whole Bible read in a year, prioritizing spiritual growth.

I never read the whole thing.

As far as which to read, anything that is a "paraphrase" is bad. The Message, New Living Bible (NLB) etc...
I'm not one to debate and seek out problems with actual Translations, but from what I've read the NIV does seem to have some issues that make it not ideal.
When I read I preferred the NLT, New Living Translation. It is in modern English, like the NIV. When it was released it was backed by some reputable pastors.

If the KJV Only-ists see this thread it will be ruined. So be prepared.

I have read the whole bible several times (not count the apocrypha). I used to always have a desire to read through all of it but would always get busy or couldn't stay consistent in my reading. Sometimes I'd get discouraged because I've always been a very slow reader and constantly have to re-read paragraphs or whole pages because I'd space out and not know what I was reading. And the discouragement came upon realizing how incredibly long it'd take for me to finish. Finally I found when looking for a good bible app the Bible Gateway app which includes several different through-the-bible-in-a-year plans and after a rough start finally got consistent in my reading and have read through the bible each year.

My personal favorite translation is the NIV, although I know several people don't like it I can't figure out why. The translation feels more concise to me and less confusing/subject to interpretation. Sometimes I'll compare with the NKJV or NASB, and sometimes just for fun the KJV to see what the olde english version sounded like, lol. I would say though to never read The Message version, or if you do, it's to understand why you shouldn't read it, lol. It really takes away and puts so much words in the bible that aren't even there or shouldn't be there.

Yeah I am worried about that, but it is what it is, I'm just a ordinary christian trying to have some fun, cause I thought it would be interesting to hear opinions. Cause CC is the only place I'm able to ask these questions, cause the only other people I can ask these questions are my parents...I don't have many real-life friends ;-;...I do have some friends that are christian, but I dunno if they would be interested in this stuff, I definitely know one of them wouldn't have much to say, I don't mean that as mean, but being realistic cause he isn't high functioning like me, another reason why I'm grateful to the lord for the way he made me, cause apparently it's not common for people with disabilities to be high functioning, especially girls on the autism spectrum, but that's what my mom told me, lol.

You Can learn on this site, it just requires picking through the garbage to find what's worth learning. And there's a lot of garbage. And figuring out who's worth listening to.

Eh, I haven't had friends near me in 10 years. I know a few people online, but we rarely talk, other than my gf, where we, of course, talk daily. But I find it makes life more simple.

That's cool, thanks for letting me know.

Yeah, makes me feel better that people get used to not having friends nearby, I just basically talk to the same friend every once in awhile, but since he doesn't remember stuff all that well due to his disability, so we just only talk about nerd stuff and sometimes we talk about the same stuff again sometimes. There are other two people I still keep in contact with, but it's just texting whenever something Pokemon related happens, I dunno I guess I just felt like I needed to expand who I'm talking to, maybe one of my friendships with a man could go further, but all of those dating websites didn't turn out like I thought it would, so I'm just trying to enjoy the life I have now, for the lord has blessed me with a wonderful life, I struggle and it gets lonely, but that's what prayer and reaching out to hang with my parents is for ^_^

Basically, I’m talking about these two things:

-“Have you read the entire bible?”

-“What type of bible do you like reading? I’m talking if it’s NIV, ESV, King James, etc.”