How long did it take you to read the Bible? I'm aiming to complete it in 90 days, which I reckon will require about 30 minutes of daily reading.
>>24753554I would read it in a radically different order.
>>24753560Chronological? NT first?I considered a chronological order, but I don't want to have to flip between books and read all.of the gospels simultaneously.Actually, I don't care about your opinion, nevermind. Low effort posters who offer to argument, context or substance of any sort, are extremely annoying.
>>24753576no argument*
>>24753576My reading order would be specific to my (now) 5th reading. Given my needs I'd start with Saul; then read Gospels working backwards from John. Chuck in Thomas (of course, do every time). Then Pro-Mal. Might do the non-cannonical Maccabees texts. I'd then read Lev-Neh. Ex. Gen. Job. Psalms.For me that's leaving the hardest to last. Yes I do think Psalms is harder than Job. Fite me.
>>24753593Oh, boy..
>>24753554The first time, a month and a half. I was thirteen. Now I can read it on about four hours
>>24753554Three years. Started reading it since 2023. It’s an on and off again journey, mostly because some of the books in the testament bored me. Currently on the New Testament, enjoying it; probably finish it real soon
>>24753610what a cool guy
>>24753631I'm not. I'm just a dude like you. I don't even believe in anything
>>24753554I read the whole thing for Lent one year, 2 chapters a day with a few days off
>>247536482 chapters a day, 5 days a week, would take over 2 years, though
>>24753554My copy has 3000 pages. It makes me roughly 3 minutes per page, so 20 pages an hour. That's 150 hours for the entire thing. If you devote half an hour every day for 90 days, that's 45 hours.
>>24753593so by "different order" you actually mean "read stuff other than the bible"
>>24753554>How long did it take you to read the Bible3 years. It was the Catholic Bible with the (very small) commentary by the CEI (in other words, all of the italian catholic bishops). But I was studying it in the meantime. Reread the Gospels like 3 times and the letters a couple. Genesis like 5 times. Learned by heart the Pater Noster too.What took me the longest was reading the Book of Mormon (another 3 years), with the other two in the 4 Scriptures being a breeze afterwards.I would recommend jumping between tough and repetitive stuff and easy and novel stuff.For example, Kings and Chronicles are basically the same. After Kings go (re)read the gospels, for example.The letters are tough, go read the proverbs and the psalms first.
>>24753736I bought picrel, and it's my first study bible with commentary and I feel like it's going to take me several years, as well. I think I'll pick up Matthew Henry's commentaries, then dive into Calvin's Institutes after.
>>24753747Forgot pic.
A famous Presbyterian's speedrun
>>24753747>>24753749That looks very nice.Happy reading, anon.
>>24753773Thank you. You too, cathbro.I'm also reciting the 10 commandments, the Nicene Creed and the Lord's prayer aloud every day until I've committed it to memory.https://voca.ro/1l9nfK1SmYWz
>>24753722Half of the denominations are up in the air on Maccabees. Jesus fuck cunt when did you stop beating your wife?
>>24753776Oops, wrong file https://voca.ro/17osQCGTvQsk
I read the Didache for the first time the other day. Early Christian handbook, likely written in 1st-century Egypt. Short read. Very based.
>>24753788can Australians go 5 minutes without cursing or blaspheming? lol
>>24753554>Reading Christian Bible>Use minority sect'svversion that is based on medieval Jewish canons instead of ancient Christian one decided by the saints.>The version that cuts out hundreds of pages wasn't even printed in English until the 19th century and it originally removed the books only to save printing costs...
>>24753885Now tell us how you're Catholic, but the Pope is illegitimate
>>24753554>I'm aiming to complete it in 90 days, which I reckon will require about 30 minutes of daily reading.And about 7 1/2 hours of contemplation, text reception, and reading of secondary critiques. Probably need another 4 hours in discussion.I hope you quit your job.
>>24753910That's what the Sabbath , expositional.preaching, and fasting every Wednesday and Friday are for.
>>24753678>he isnt fasting for 2 years why even pretend to be a christian?
>>24753554I followed a daily reading plan that took a year, but you read through the NT, Psalms and Proverbs more than once
>>24753554About a year and a half. Of course, this wasn't my only reading.
>>24753554I read the bible from start to end on my junior year of high school because I was bored and didn't really have any other reading material as I was not a very literature minded person and it took me from September to almost April. I started with the Pentateuch, then did the entire NT, then the rest of the OT minus the wisdom books which I saved for last.
>>24753593>Psalms is harder than JobLol
>>24753752>Romans at the end>no Isaiah
>>24755646Next you'll tell me that Journey to the West is easier than Gateless Gate. Any practicising Christian should be able to respond to Job. Christianity is basically the young rabbi's position writ large. Every buddhist knows across their face what the sound of one hand clapping is.Psalms has a woman shitting herself while God fists her to Orgasm. How the fuck are you going to deal with the importance of that for Judaism, Christianity or Islam?>kids today, ffs.
>>24755732I meant to agree with the sentiment, not contest it>Psalms has a woman shitting herself while God fists her to Orgasm.? which one? Are you thinking about Song of Songs?
>>24755954>Are you thinking about Song of Songs?>My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him/>My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.KJV Committee knew what a uterus was.There are valid readings about bean flicking and merely vaginal fistings here. I ask of what cost is an excess of trembling before god? If you tremble with your uterus, why not tremble with your anus? Jesus *WILL FIST YOU*.Sorry about being sharp about Job. Too many people think of Job as a problem play with no ready solution, or too easily take the young rabbi's position without following the (absence) or argument of submission before God's mysteries in absolute.Whereas Psalms is the bible's storehouse of interior experience of being human, and so is more troubling than a history where we are merely deficient, etc.
>>24753554The Bible is not something to be read cover to cover but search for the most useful parts based on your life's situationAt least that's my opinion
>>24755975Reading bits at random would be more useful for this end than reading the entire thing? lol>>24755732Uh, what psalm is that? You sound like you eat too much sugary breakfast cereal.
>>24756007>Uh, what psalm is that?Did you read the bible, or did you skim it?
>>24756013No, I haven't.
>>24756037I'd like to read the psalm you referenced, though. Which one is it?
>>24756037Song of Soloman is a love story between a female worshipper and God pictured as a hot dude willing to fist her. In KJV, as quoted above, he tickles her clit and she orgasms as he starts to fist her.Judaism has G—d elbow deep inside you. Pre-Judaic israelite religion is even better: God is a furry and his wife has a penis. If you know how to read well enough, you can read the epic fight between the Masculine Fisters and the shemale tree cult from Leviticus through Nehemiah.
>>24756046You sound upset. I'll check it, though. Thanks.
>>24754794m'cheyne's?>>24756046>G-dwhy are atheists always seething with rafe and spewing the most deranged things imaginable?
>>24755961>>24756046This is ridiculous, and based on not only reading the verse out of context, but also a lack of understanding of how the English "bowels" has changed in meaning, along with the Hebrew root in question. Let me ask, is Jeremiah 4:19 about having diarrhea? Is the problem in Lamentations 1:20 not sin and the destruction of Jerusalem, but constipation?
>>24753593So it's really just about you it's not some general criticism or plan. That's kind of annoying.
>>24756112he's mad at God, and his anger has made him sick and deranged. plain as day. we can only hope the Lord changes his heart.
>>24753643You believe in lying and making shit up apparently
>>24756128>So it's really just about you it's not some general criticism or plan. That's kind of annoying.It is about reading backwards from Sauline Criticism, through Jesus Criticism, into the Second Temple as a crisis, into the Tabernacle and the First Temple as a crisis, into the Exodian Crisis, into the Pre Bondage Crisis. And then returning to Job and Pslams as critical interventions into human faith which presage the place for Christ.I don't know about you, but reducing history to the space for the lyrical entry of the divine in and as man is a pretty fucking wild ride.You do you mate. I am only as mad as God has made me, and yet he has made even me capable of his love.
>>24753576It tells a story, the loveliest story, should you wish to follow in sequence, I recommend the ordering listed in the attached image.
>>24756112Gill seems to believe Lamentations indicates that God has given man the shits:https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/gills-exposition-of-the-bible/lamentations-1-20.html>my bowels are troubled;as the sea, agitated by winds, which casts up mire and dirt; or as any waters, moved by anything whatsoever, become thick and muddy; or like wine in fermentation; so the word <arabic> F12, in the Arabic language, signifies, expressive of great disturbance, confusion, and uneasinessThe power of the metaphor comes from the literal shits.Gill does not go into word source criticism in 4:19 but instead refers to the subject being collective.Do you love god, or do you deny the power of anal catastrophes to represent the deep uncleanness of Judah in the face of the Lord's interrogation? You seem to have shat your pants.
>>24756178You're one sick puppy, brotha
>>24756181Also as you'd know late in sieges the wells normally become impure and people die of horrific dysentery. The lost siege is a common image of failure in Israelite religion. One of the major reasons to read Maccabees is that they resisted siege. And we all know why rabbinical judaism exists today: due to that failed siege.Shitting yourself to death is an essential and powerful metaphor in Israelite Religion, and thereby in Christianity.
>>24753554It took me about 7 months.>>24756191lol wtf
>>24756135I can read 1600 pages in a day, npMaybe you could try
>>24756646You read the bible in 7 months and you didn't get the role of the failed siege defence in Israeli religion? You should have taken 21 months.
>>24753554dispensationalist or supersessionist?
>>24756701What if you have an anal fixation grrm
>>24756826I haven't read the Bible yet, but I'd be really surprised if I ended up a dispy. The people I worship with at the church I belong to are amillennial,supersessionist,arminian, congregationalists.. but I'm really drawn to the sola scriptura/TULIP stuff. I'm a new Christian and still discerning and developing my personal views on what scripture actually teaches.
>>24756846>I haven't read the Bible yet,Not in its entirety, anyway.
>>24753554I guarantee this reading plan will fail somewhere in October at the latest. Either it will become too much of a chore to adhere to with understanding or you'll be rushing through to meet the day's quota while sacrificing understanding.
>>24756895I appreciate your vote of confidence.
>>24756828>What if you have an anal fixation grrm>He put his fist at my passage and my bowels moved for him. —KJV.
>>24756900I'm probably projecting my own failure more than a little. If your disciplined approach doesn't work, try the half-assed approach that worked for me: dip in where you left off whenever you feel like it, and read as much or as little you feel like. Some days I was reading around five hours, other days five minutes, other days nothing. Took around 18 months. I Googled anything that was confusing.
My Bible has taken me 17 years and I'm not past Ezekiel yet. I read it for about an hour a day. I guess I will finish it by 2034.
>>24753554Are you an adult or are your Jewish parents forcing you to read this garbage? Just throw it in the trash and pick up a good book instead.
>>24753554Currently following a 6 month plan going through OT, A, and NT. Tried a year but it was too slow. Doing my best to not let any particular denomination influence me until I've read the entire thing.
>>24757281I find this to be the only way I can read meaningfully. I cannot get much substance from books when I'm reading just to read.
>>24757524Read the updates to the updatehttps://nrsvue.scribenet.com/errata
>>24757812Reading the official Kindle version, so I should be up to date. Good to know this exists though.
>>24753554>oh yeah I'll speedread the arcane tome of supernatural wisdomdumb shitjust pick a single book and look up the background information around it. Try to conceptualize why it was written and for what purpose.The poor bible isn't rich enough of a narrative to get lost in and yet still far too foreign or alien to make much cohesive sense as anything else, unless maybe you know fluent hebrew and like the songbooks.
>>24757844smug anime posters are my favorite thing about 4chan. I always imagine a balding 28-year-old, living with their parents, surrounded by plastic toy figurines, dispensing their wisdom with greasy fingers from their childhood bedroom.
>>24753910>and reading of secondary critiquesYour first reading of the Bible should be your eyes only, without the influence of the words of modern men
>>24753736Last time someone gave me a guide on reading the Bible it made it impossible. Any other techniques?
>>24758734You're asking a poster who despises Christ, just so you know.
>>24753554Depends how fast you read. Word-count is a better indicator than page-count for how long it will take to read a book.If it’s a more antiquated or literary translation, you will spend a considerable time researching definitions. Font size too will affect reading speed.
>>24758734Understand the structure of the Bible and decide for yourself.I'm gonna give you a fast explaination of it, and what I would do if I were you.Try doing this:Divide the Bible into two parts: NT and OT.Divide the OT into a few sections: the Torah, the Historical books, the Poetic books, and the Prophets.Divide the NT into two sections: Gospels+Acts and Letters+Revelations.You need the Prophets and the Torah to understand the Gospels, you need the Torah to understand the Letters.You need to know the Historical books to understand the Prophets.You also need the Historical Books to understand the Poetic books.You need the Poetic books to understand the deep questions of Christianity (the problem of evil, most of all), and it's "soul".What I'd focus on is really solidifing the New Testament. The New Covenant is in the New Testament. If you already (kinda) believe, you just need the NT for starters. The OT would be just to challenge your faith.There is a high chance you already know decently the Torah. The story of Genesis, Moses and Egypt, I think you know the core point of it. So I think you'd be able to judge if Christianity is worthy of your (further) attention.The Letters are (except for very few cases) meant to prove Christianity, and to establish Christ as God, to those who are not Jewish. A lot of them were written by St. Paul, "the Apostle of the Heathens".If he talks about old rules, he usually names them and gives the Christian interpretation of them.I would recommend to read the NT as a single entity, first and foremost.After that, as I said, to challenge your views, read the OT. And when it comes to the OT, you can do what you want, really.I read it jumping back and forth between easier and tougher stuff. The Psalms, I've read them after Kings. Chronicles repeat the majority of Kings, so I've reread the Gospels after reading Psalms.Numbers, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, are law codexes. I picked up Jude and Ecclesiastes after them. Judges have heroic myths. Just understand that, for example, the Torah and the Historical part are both in chronological order, so you have go one after the other, you can't read in a different order.So, my advice is:Read the NT first.Read the Torah and the Historical sections afterwards.Whenever you get fatigued, read a book from the Poetic section, or reread a book from the NT. Best points to do this are: after finishing the Tanakh, after finishing Kings.The Prophets come last, and after them a mandatory reread of the Gospels (because how else are you gonna accept Jesus as the Messiah?)And just so you know, I am a biblical unitarian, but I used to be a christian fundamentalist.>Inb4 whyMark 10:18, among others.>>24758861I'd rather be a follower of Christ, than a follower of your theologians.
Breaking things into pericopes is also one way to go about it. Many bibles such as NRSV actually do this already with story titles between the chapters and verses.
