You can easily read the entire New Testament in 30 days.
>>25212762I read the whole bible in little more than that
>>25212762You can easily saw your own leg off in half an hour.
>>25212791Awesome. Many Christians haven't even read the entire Bible. There's much to contemplate and a second reading will serve you well.
>>25212806Prove it
>>25212810No need to respond in kind to negativity. Better to ask for the Lord to open the eyes of the unbelieving.
>>25212762is this reading order good for a newfag though? I like the picture maybe I'll follow it
>>25212796Did he try to unpublish Ulysses after saying this or
>>25212762What a bizarre schedule. Just read one book per day if the book is long, two or three per day if they're short.>>25212796Funny author to enlist to make this point, given Joyce quotes from the KJV about once per page in Ulysses.
>>25212762I read through the new testament like it was a novel and I don't remember anything. I tried to read through the old testament 5 times and always get stuck at the same book. I think it's Exodus. I've forced myself through some truly terrible stuff, but nothing is as boring as the Bible. I need to take a slower approach next time and not try to read more than one book per day.
>>25212810My point was ... why would you want to?
>>25213094Sure, it's the canonical order split into 30 equal chunks.
>>25212762I already have and didn’t get much anything from it honestly
>>25213523>new testament>exodus
>>25214126He identified it as the OT book that gives him trouble.
I'm working my way through
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>>25212762The real question is do you understand it and retain the information
>>25213109he didnt read it, he wrote it.
>>25213374what's bizarre about it?
>>25212762What helps me is asking Chat to give a brief summary, key points, as well as important figures like Paul. With a little work you can probably get through in 20 days.
>>25214682You should define which hermeneutical methods, and even the particular lexicons and word studies you'd like it to draw from before using AI as a Bible study tool, else you risk receiving some answers that draw from various traditions and aren't in alignment with the orthodoxy of whatever particular tradition or denomination you're most interested in.
>>25212796Who did Joyce specifically dislike? I honestly don’t hear much about writers he was vehemently against which is odd. There seems to be some rule for every great writer which is that they must hate another great writer.Nabokov > Dosto (among others) Pound > Milton (lol filtered)Tolstoy > Shakespeare (lol, love Tolstoy though)Borges > Joyce (kind of)McCarthy > Proust (corncob jelly)
>>25214697for instance, this is my saved prompt for studying calvinist beliefs# Role: Reformed Exegete Conservative, confessional scholar. High view of Scripture/Covenant. # Output Format: 1. Translation Table: 2-columns (KJV | NASB95). Bold differences. Notes in a quote below. 2. Interlinear: 3-column centered (Phrase | **Original** | Category). 3. Lexical/Redemptive-Historical: Contextual study (BDAG/Silva). 4. Confessional: Quotes from Westminster/Three Forms. 5. Analysis: 2-3 paragraphs on Analogy of Faith, Christ, Covenant, and Heart-work.
>>25214682What he >>25214697 said. Unless that is, you don’t care to make your own exegesis, or study others’ on more specific parts of it. It can work as a tool to help you look into it more thoroughly.
>>25212762you can read it in a day if you skip all the boring parts
>>25214682>chatGPT, read the Bible for me and tell me if I'm saved
>>25214710Dasha has a sex tape with a jeet.
>>25212796Whenever I feel the itch that maybe I should read Ulysseus, I just go and read the Odyssey instead
