Please identify your religous world view when you answer
Athiest, Catholic, Protestant, Pagan, Mormon.....
2006-12-02 00:19:38 · 38 answers · asked by Mad Maxine 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To all Christians who haven't yet read the entire Bible please notice allot of non-Christians have. If they can you should be able to as well, after all it is our world view it is talking about.
Reading bits and pieces don't count as much it is to easy to take it out of context, and make it mean anything you want it to that way. It has to be in context.
2006-12-02 04:19:49 · update #1
I am a Christian, a member of the Church of Christ and yes, I have read the Bible cover to cover several times and I am still learning from it. ( The book of Numbers was the hardest to get through )
I have a Greek Bible and also The KJV of the Holy Bible.
2006-12-02 00:40:51 · answer #1 · answered by Penny Mae 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Dear MadMaxine,
I am a Protestant (born again Christian although I was raised in the Congregational church which became UCC).
Starting when I was in about 10th grade I wanted to read the whole Bible but I didn't think I would be able to understand it (KJV) until I was an adult.
As an adult I forgot about wanting to read the Bible. I married, had children, etc. etc. It wasn't until my husband filed for divorce and things were really bad at work due to the banking crisis that one Sunday morning before church I got down on my knees beside my bed and started praying "God, I just want ..." At the time I didn't know what I wanted other than for the pain to be gone. I believe the Holy Spirit finished my prayer for me (... to read the Bible from cover-to-cover. Will you arrange the time and the money?"
Two days later I got laid-off and I got 15 weeks of severance pay! Then I also prayed about which Bible I should read. I knew that I couldn't finish reading The Life Application Bible (which I had recently bought) in 15 weeks because of all of the study material. The Holy Spirit led me to The Daily Walk Bible. It is designed to read over the course of the year. But it was so good that I couldn't put it down and I finished it in 90 days.
Reading the Bible was the best thing I've done in my life. Now I continue to read the Bible but I read it throughout the year. This year I am reading and enjoying The Daily Bible in Chronological Order.
For 2007 I may switch gears and do an inductive Bible study.
Thank you for asking! Have you read it? There are SO many good Bibles these days. I give Bibles as presents. Men of Intergrity Bible to my son and son-in-law; Mom's Devotional Bible to my daughter and my daughter-in-law's half sister; True Images Bible to my teenaged step granddaughter; Revolution, the Bible for Teen Guys to my teenaged step-grandson etc.
Edit: Doc8 I had the same trouble with the KJV as you did and that is why I thought I would have to wait until I was an adult. Go back and try a different version. My favorite for reading is the New International Version (NIV) but there are a great many translations today and nearly all of them say essentially the same thing. In church I use the NKJV since that is what my minister uses. I have the Precise Parallel Bible with 8 translations of the New Testament and the only one I can't read is the Greek.
As I said, try again and this time ask the Author to help you. He will be delighted in your request if you want to know Him.
2006-12-02 00:52:52 · answer #2 · answered by JOYfilled - Romans 8:28 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am LDS - mormon - and have never read the bible page by page...but have studied it several different times in seminary and Sunday school class.. I am currectly working on it though as I have read the Book of Mormon cover to cover, I should the bible also.
Thanks for asking.
2006-12-02 04:02:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Almost.
Catholic by birth. I mean, by baptism at 2 months old.
About 15 years ago, I had too much time during the summer, and I read up to Ecclesiastes? No, further...
And I read the whole New Testament.
Tell me what sense it made to a teenager adrift in her problems.
Oh, and I read the whole Children's Bible as a little girl... much easier, lost a lot in translation, I'm sure...
2006-12-02 00:32:54 · answer #4 · answered by starryeyed 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
KJV - several times, I'm a preacher's kid and was raised on it. (But it was along time ago)
The New American Bible (with Dictionary Concordance) - once, within the past three years.
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - once, within the past two years..
The Holy Scriptures (OT only - published by the Jewish Publication society) - twice in the past two years.
I'm Pagan.
2006-12-02 05:24:17 · answer #5 · answered by Praise Singer 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've read it from cover to cover ENTIRELY 7 times. I've viewed it mostly from Protestan's POV since I was and am one of it. But I also have read it from different POV, as Agnostic and Atheist. Yup, I once had forsaken my faith completely. but I once was lost and now am found. I have decided to keep my faith as Protestant till my time comes. I'm still Protestant, but with far more open-minded view about this world, religion, and Christianity nowadays. My personall comment about bible is it's truly 2000 pages of Sleeping Pills, it's bloody straightforward, it's been twisted a lot but still contains some fact in it. It might not be the fact, but that's my own POV about bible so please don't offend mine, do you?
BTW, I also have read the Koran ENTIRELY from cover to cover several times. My Moslem friend lent me her Koran once. She and her Moslem friend in school's mosque helped me to read it all once in attempt to convert me to Moslem. This to answer Daliadel's question in her answer too. I also have personal comment about Koran, but this is not the right place to declare it all at once....
2006-12-02 00:45:00 · answer #6 · answered by Professor Franklin 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
lol, i liked the answer about it being to voilent in the first part. It's like a movie, it grabs your attention with booms and bangs and lulls you into a false sense of security in the "happy" ending, lol, what a joke
my father is a "man of god" and so was i until i left to see how the world really treats other people. I study history and wow, he let a million or so "indians" just be slaughterd?? there they were just enjoying the land, hunting buffalo, nothing destructive, for about 10,000 years and we come on in and utterly destroy north and south america for MONEY, lol, god and satan are on a couch watching the earth like a TV and laughing and crying at the same time.
wake up people, when you die, YOU DIE. How in any way could you actully think your going to another place one your heart stops beating. Take out everything you've ever learned and look at a human standing on a rock spinning at 700 miles an hour with a layer of vapor created by the "heat" and "cold" of the light of the sun. Life lives in that part, and we stand on the top, how daring are we? 70% of the top of the world in hydrogen and oxygen atoms compressed to tightly to the earth it becomes water, and life comes from that. I could do the same thing if i had an atom spitter. We are that explosion for a brief second to the big kid in the sky's science experiment. To us it is millions of years, to whoever is out there, it is but a second.
2006-12-02 00:45:46 · answer #7 · answered by Eric M 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Yup. Did so this summer and plan to again after the holidays to refresh myself.
I'm an atheist by the way, though was raised Lutheran for 20 years.
2006-12-02 04:13:53 · answer #8 · answered by Ophelia 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mormon is actually the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and yes, I have read it cover to cover, more than once actually, and even memorized many passages, and studied indexes and in other languages as well.
I cross-reference, too.
I love studying the scriptures! It's very enlightening.
2006-12-02 00:22:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Roman Catholic.
Yes, the entire Bible cover to cover individually.
Yes, the entire Bible through my Church as community.
2006-12-02 00:33:39 · answer #10 · answered by Lives7 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋