What Order Should a New Christian Read the Bible in? I have recently discoered faith and really want to read the Bible but not sure what order to go in fully!
Btw, understanding what a "testament" is could greatly aid you in your understanding of much of the Bible, which comes to us in the form of two testaments; the old testament and the new testament. Please consider the following:
Hebrews 9:16
For where a testament
is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
Hebrews 9:17
For a testament
is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Hebrews 9:18
Whereupon neither the first
testament was dedicated without blood.
Hebrews 9:19
For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
Hebrews 9:20
Saying, This
is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
You mentioned your parents on another thread, so I hope you don't mind if I use them to illustrate something that might be beneficial to you.
Let's say that your parents both write their "last will and testament", and that they leave everything that they own to you. That testament wouldn't be "of force" or wouldn't go into effect until they, the testators, died. If you understand this principle, then you can understand much of both the old and new testaments. In other words, under the old testament, God had animals killed or sacrificed in order to make that testament "of force" or in order to put it into effect that people might inherit the promises under that testament.
Under the new testament, Jesus died as our sacrificial lamb, thereby making this testament "of force" or thereby putting it into effect that we might inherit the promises under that testament.
This is kind of what I was referring to in my previous response. Again, under the old testament, there were a lot of things which served to foreshadow things that Christ would later fulfil under the new testament. All of the old testament sacrifices foreshadowed the ultimate sacrifice which was to come:
Jesus' death on the cross for our sins.
I hope that his makes some sort of sense to you.