Does it matter if you start reading the bible from the new test versus the old?

Question

I've been a christian my entire life, but now that i'm in college i find it a little ridiculous i can proof economics assignments etc but not take the time to really disect the bible, anyhow i've read it in different chapters my entire life but never the whole bible, for that reason now that i've chosen to commit myself/read it word/word, does it matter if iread the new testament first?

Answer 1

I believe that you should read the new testament gospel of John first.
Then read the whole new testament.
Then read it again.
The you can read the old testament.
Why?
You are in the new testament.
The references in the new are to the prophets of old. Isa. being one of them. Psalms also being quoted from.

READ THAT NEW TESTAMENT FIRST.

Answer 2

I'd suggest you start an in-depth study of the Old Testament, with a view toward understanding how it foreshadows the New Covenant. When doing such a study, you'll find yourself flipping back and forth between the OT and NT; before you know it, you'll WANT to read the entire OT so you can glean all the wisdom you can from it.

Also, I can say without reservation that a person CANNOT understand the New Covenant brought by Jesus, nor can they understand Revelation, without studying the OT.

Pray about it and ask God to send you a teacher who will stimulate your thirst for His word.

Answer 3

It doesn't matter where you start.

To me the OT is a little confusing because it is not chronological. So you read about the Medo Persians ruling over the Jews in Esther, but then later in Daniel you read about the Babylonians. And the Babylonians came first. So this year I am reading the One Year Chronological Bible. It is paperback and costs about $22, but for me since this is my first time reading it thorough it is less confusing to have it in order.

I have also heard that there are study books out there that show what OT books compliment NT books, for example Daniel has a lot of end time prophesy so it is best complimented by Revelations.

Good luck and good reading!

Answer 4

Suggest reading the Christian scripture first (New Testament) Get a leaf notebook and make a few main-subjects as they occur so that you can collect special scriptures.

Next, read the Hebrew-Aramaic scriptures.

Genesis, Exodus are very interesting. The next two are a bit hard to get through.

Answer 5

Generally speaking, it is easier to start from the beginning and go through from there. However, it does not matter where you start as far as content goes. You can find several types of study bibles and concordances in your local christian bookstore to assist you with your reading and any cross-referencing you may want to do. Keeping notes of what you have read may also help.

Answer 6

no god encourages you read the whole bible new testament as well as the old doesnt matter if start in psalm then go to genesis

Answer 7

Read a chapter of the old with a chapter of the new, so it is more relevant to how you walk with Christ today.

Answer 8

Yeah, unless you want to do a lot of cross referencing.

Answer 9

If God has intended that man should learn His religion from a book, the Bible, surely God would have given that book to man. Christ would have given that book to man. Did He do it? He did not. Christ sent His Apostles throughout the whole universe and said, "Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you."

Christ did not say, "Sit down and write Bibles and scatter them over the earth, and let every man read his Bible and judge for himself." If Christ had said that, there would never have been a Christianity on the earth at all, but a Babylon and confusion instead, and never one Church, the union of one body. Hence, Christ never said to His Apostles, "Go and write Bibles and distribute them, and let everyone judge for himself." That injunction was reserved for the Sixteenth Century, and we have seen the result of it. Ever since the Sixteenth Century there have been springing up religion upon religion, and churches upon churches, all fighting and quarreling with one another, and all because of the private interpretation of the Bible.

Christ sent His Apostles with authority to teach all nations, and never gave them any command of writing the Bible. And the Apostles went forth and preached everywhere, and planted the Church of God throughout the earth, but never thought of writing.


Up to that time the whole world for three hundred years did not know what the Bible was. Hence, they could not take the Bible for their guide, for they did not know what constituted the Bible. Would our Divine Saviour, if He intended man to learn his religion from a book, have left the Christian world for three hundred years without that book? Most assuredly not.

It is Divine Faith alone by which we give honor and glory to God, by which we adore His infinite wisdom and veracity. That adoration and worship is necessary for salvation.

We must have Faith in order to be saved, and we must have Divine Faith, not human faith. Human faith will not save a man, but only Divine Faith. What is Divine Faith? It is to believe, upon the authority of God, the truths that God has revealed, that is Divine Faith. To believe all that God has taught upon the authority of God, and to believe without doubting, without hesitation. For the moment you begin to doubt or hesitate, that moment you begin to mistrust the authority of God, and, therefore, insult God by doubting His word. Divine Faith, therefore, is to believe without doubting and without hesitating. Human faith is belief upon the authority of men, on human authority. But Divine Faith is to believe without doubting, without hesitating, whatsoever God has revealed upon the authority of God, upon the Word of God.

Answer 10

I would endorse the answer given by "Treseurop"