Christians - How many of you have read the Bible all the way through?

Question

Just curious as to whether or not how many Christians out there have fully read the Bible. Doesn't matter to me if you have or haven't, just wondering.

Also wondering what denomination you are if you have(ie: are you Catholic, Baptist, Episcopalian, Mormon, etc) and which version(or versions, if you've read more than one) you've read.

Thanks for all your answers so far. It's been really interesting the varying range of answers, denominations, and versions.

Want to clarify a couple of things quick.

First off, I'm not looking for anything more than a demographic. Keep hearing about the KJV, wondering if that's what everyone uses, if that's a common version to use, or what people use.

I personally own a Bible myself, I have read it, and it's the New Revised Standard Version(NRSV). I'm atheist, but I was raised Lutheran, so it's just curiosity for me.

Also, when I said it didn't matter one way or another, I didn't mean that reading the Bible wasn't important. Obviously it is to some and not to others. What I meant by that was that I wasn't going to tell those who had things like that they were slaves to religion and those who hadn't were gonna burn.

I obviously don't think that. If you've read it, good for you. If you haven't, you won't hear any scolding from me.

Thanks again for the respectful answers! :)

Answer 1

Several times.

Some of it is terribly boring.

I am 100% Catholic. Just not "Roman" Catholic. (I'm a Traditional Anglican priest)

Answer 2

Respectfully may I observe that the NRSV would make anyone a confused person and possibly an Atheist! (stop the hate mail!)
I have read it fully several times. I am studying it more in-depth this year than ever before and it's finally making sense for me and I love it more than ever before in my life. When you begin to understand it, it is so alive!
My denomination is conservative non-denominational (not organized with head-quarters) Christians and there is no formal membership. We believe in the Triune God-head, salvation through faith in Jesus shed blood on Calvary, sanctification, personal Biblical holiness in conduct and dress, the experience of the Holy Ghost, symbolic water babtism, partaking of the symbolic bread and wine (not cannablistic style), that Jesus is our only High Priest not any earthly church leader, that a plurality of elders teach a church and not for the sake of filthy lucre but may recieve love offerings and the gifts of the spirit are for today.
The King James Version was relied upon by our founding fathers, our first American Universities, our Presidents, and many others.
Noah Webster considered "education useless without the Bible." Harvard Student Handbook rule number 1 was that students seeking entrance must know Latin and Greek so that they could study the scriptures. These refer to the KJV Bible. (Various Christian Heritage Preservation Sources)

"God is not the author of confusion! Without the single preserved text you have just that -
confusion." Bill Burkett, Actions Ministries
See below for why it is historically reliable.

Answer 3

I read your question and am wondering what you are really searching for?
You ask, it does not matter to you either way. Then all is mute.

I have read the Bible from start to finish many times. Reading this way is great for content, but not for spiritual guidance.

The only Bible I read and recommend is the King James Version. Its easy to read and contains true content. You also need a Strong's Exhausted Concordance as the two go hand in hand when rightly dividing the Word.

True Christians belong to no religion.

Answer 4

I read it all they way through once just so I could say that I have. Back then I didn't understand much of it. Right now I am reading it through again for the second time (currently at Isaiah 50), but I am reading it more slowly and trying to gain as much understanding of every chapter that I possibly can. I have found that if you read the Bible with the purpose of trying to learn something, and especially if you take notes as you read, you gain so much more out of it. I have only read the King James Version all the way through. I occasionally read parts of the Reina Valera (Spanish), but I have never read it from cover to cover. I am a Latter-day Saint (Mormon).

Answer 5

I am a non-denominational Christian. I have not read the Bible all the way through. I'm working on it though with the help of a Women's study bible that has a section of verses for every day of the year. It's hard to sit and read it cover to cover, I've started several times and have never seceded that way.

Answer 6

I went through various religions in the past.
I've read the Bible in various translations, including KJV, New American Standard, New Jerusalem translation, and even the Joseph Smith translation, and a good part of the Amplified New Testament.

I'm not a Christian now.

Answer 7

I haven't read it all the way through but I am on Hebrews which is at least very close to the end. I read my bible every day with a few exceptions. I read the NIV study bible. I grew up Lutheran but am baptized now into Baptist...its a long story.

Answer 8

I haven't finished this years read yet most likely I will before the end of the year. I have been a christian for 31 years.. have you gotten the idea yet? For my Study and devotion times I use my NAS (New American Standard). To share with people on line here on Answers I use King James. I am a nondenominational christian. I don't much care for organized religion . It is all man made therefore imperfect. In my experience BOY is it imperfect!! Jim

Answer 9

I read the Douay Rheims Bible - (three times)

James I reigned as king of England from 1603 to 1625. He was the son of Mary Queen of Scots, and he had been king of Scotland before succeeding to the English throne at the death of Queen Elizabeth I. He was prompted to produce an English Bible because of the poor and tendentious copies being circulated in England. He feared these could be used by seditious religious and political factions.

His authority was one usurped from the Catholic Church, beginning with his predecessor King Henry VIII. Henry had broken with the Catholic Church and made himself the head of the Church in England, which soon enough became the Church of England. You could say James had no more authority in biblical matters than any head of state, basically none.

Answer 10

They have read the book a lot number of books and a new one is comming. Moreover they have read the translation not the original in Hibrew. Muslims read Quran in Arabic they read it in translated form, with many changes. Ask any Christian which one is perfect they themselve say that non is perfect 100 percent. So how can you belive the book and its verses.
Muslims follow the way of their Prophet do they follow their god's son or the teachings of the son. Jesus dint marry or ate prok or drank wine, why do most of christians drink and eat pork. Ask them who forced them to Christanity as a religion, Jesus never said this or talked of christanity as a religion.

Answer 11

catholic myself although i don't think that would make a differences I'm not a cradle catholic and that might i have read 4 versions NIV. king James new world and Jerusalem's cover to cover however they are so much alike I could say I read 1 4 times the ? is not what version it is what interpretation?