I want to read the Bible so I can enjoy literature better (many works have Biblical references). I’d love to read through it but there’s one problem: it’s fucking boring. It’s hundreds of pages of tiny ass text and ancient jargon, it actually hurts my brain to read it. Are there more digestible ways to consume the Bible? (like a movie series or even comics)
>>32325238>like a movie series or even comicsHow do people this unintelligent even live? Just read.
>>32325238Theres comic bibles yeah.Also kids bibles, the stories shorter and easy öanguage with nice picsOr the bible in easy english
>>32325238https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%201&version=GNTNotice how you can change the translation. I set this to ‘GNT’ for you, Good News Translation. It speaks in plain modern English. I picked out The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 1 because it’s my favourite book in the Bible. Give Chapter 1 a read and check out the other 30 chapters. King Solomon spits pure bars of wisdom throughout.Anyway, refer to pic related to help you navigate translations of the bible. It’s mostly preference, ideally you should want word-for-word. But if you’re a beginner, settle for paraphrase (modern english), this helps you understand that ‘old jargon’ a good bit.
>>32325238Read Genesis, Exodus, Job and the Gospels. The rest IS boring.
>>32325661>Proverbs is boring>Ephesians is boring>1 Timothy is boring>REVELATIONS is boring?Bro are we even reading the same bible?
>>32325238Read the NASB version on bible gateway.Gospels of John or Matthew are probably the most referenced.>>32325661I like the weirdness of Ezekiel, Daniel, and Revelation, (Enoch too, if we're counting that).
>>32325661>>32325666>>32325686OP you may be getting the point from these answers. Skip over the sections that are just begatting and dull history and read what you find interesting.
>>32325238> it actually hurts my brain to read it. Are there more digestible ways to consume the Bible? (like a movie series or even comics)Nigger, I doubt you actually like reading. You're probably too much of a brainlet for Paradise Lost and the Divine Comedy anyway, so there's no point in you trying to read the bible.
>>32325238The only real answer is to keep reading progressively tougher and/or more archaic stuff until you're up to the task. Nothing is free; you can read babby's first prose translations all day but you don't just read literature for the content. Or in this case, probably what some smug evangelical thinks the content should be.You can stretch out by reading relatively archaic-sounding versions of old epics like Gilgamesh or Beowulf, which can be read "deep" but are also just pretty short, wacky adventure stories.
>>32325238What helped me was reading a little bit, maybe 20 or 30 minutes, before going to sleep or when I was in need of advice or guidance. I am not a christian (nor a jew, in the case of the OT).If you rush it I think it wouldn't feel as juicy.If you just want to have a notion of it for cultural resons, maybe read the most "famous" parts of it.
But yeah, as the anons said, you're quite the brainlet. However I believe it can be helped. Just try to brainmaxx consistently, going for the slow kill.
>>32325265Why does noone respond to me? Why ate you all ignorinf me? Youre arguing about a problem that has literally been solved and i showed you that solution in this post.
>>32325238I assuming you mean the christian bible as opposed to The bible which is the Tanakh. If you wanted to read the christian bible the only valid way in the modern world to do so is a copy of the king jame version. There it is poetry, offering far more than mere religious script. It is available as an audiobook with various readers. There's even librivox versions if you didn't want to pay for it
Listen to Jesus Christ Superstar and study the lyrics, the characters, and some of the events being portrayed in the album.GOD tier way to experience Christianity honestly.
>>32325238if you're into history you could get an academic edition like The New Oxford Annotated Bible. There's introductions explaining the historical background of each book and footnotes everywhere that explain anything even remotely confusing. If you really want to read the entire thing you will have to slog through some boring bits though, no getting around that. While many of these books have interesting legends or moral fables, big chunks of it are boring shit like genealogies and legal text which was aimed at some dudes 2000 odd years ago and has zero relevance to you today.
>>32325238it's not that hardI read genesis, exodus, apocalipse and some book or part here or there as a little childnumbers is boring as fuckbut some other books are quite entertainingalso it was my first erotica readings lol, genesis includes many sexual encounters heavily implied or outright told, like the girls that sleep with their dad since he's blind he doesn't notice apparently, that story about that whole gay town wanting to fuck some freshly arrived twinks (lol), wifes fucking their husband's brother since the brother died (?), etcgive it a tryalso some stories are very short compared to all the lore people has build around it as time went on, like babel's tower
There are a lot of free audio versions of the Bible, for example Bible in a year podcast on youtube.https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeXS0cAkuTPqFMtZQ379qdEmcfxO1SvXc
you have to rawdog the KJV or else you're a poseur
>>32325238No cap. I have read the Bible and the Brick Bible and it really checks out as more than good enough. Alternatively, get a dollar store bible and rip a page or two out to read on shitters or waiting in the car and you will be done in a year tops.
>>32329834*adding that Christmas is coming, if there are special little anons in your life. This is a fine choice even for atheists as one must know their enemies.
>>32329844yeah I'm an atheist and I'd say one of the most important books I've read as a kid was the bibleas OP said it gets many references in all western culture but besides many literary vehicles later polished are there in a very basic form so it's nice to read as a beginner in literature, but like the little prince if you go back to it every few years you discover new small intricacies in some booksalso yeah, I quickly gathered most of it looked pretty much like the mythos of many other religions so the chances of this one being the real one guys for real this time was very low.
>>32325238https://earnestlycontendingforthefaith.com/ListenToTheKingJamesBible.html
>>32329298basedI've read kjv twice. Had a strange experience one night reading it. Felt like I was struck by a surge of energy and heard a voice call out to me. Not sure if demon or God but only happened once. Got scared and put the bible down kek.
>>32333061that was me, sorry bro
>>32333066Pretty sure it was a demon or God. I have an old 1911 KJV Bible in pretty good condition. Also has apocrypha but haven't read it. Kind of hard to read because it's so old and the pages are razor thin I have to handle it with care.
