Question for fellow christians?

Question

How many of you have accually read the whole bible cover to cover? I admit that I have not. You?

Answer 1

For the folks who say they've read "every word," I'd enjoy hearing them try to pronounce a few of these names, or did they skip over these words? (In fact, my wife and I want to name our son Hazarmaveth.)

Gen. 10: These are the descendants of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; children were born to them after the flood.
2 The descendants of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 3The descendants of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. 4The descendants of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.* 5From these the coastland peoples spread. These are the descendants of Japheth* in their lands, with their own language, by their families, in their nations.
6 The descendants of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. 7The descendants of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. 8Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first on earth to become a mighty warrior. 9He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, ‘Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.’ 10The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar. 11From that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah, and 12Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city. 13Egypt became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, 14Pathrusim, Casluhim, and Caphtorim, from which the Philistines come.*
15 Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, 16and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, 17the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, 18the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterwards the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. 19And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon, in the direction of Gerar, as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. 20These are the descendants of Ham, by their families, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
21 To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, children were born. 22The descendants of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. 23The descendants of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. 24Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber. 25To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg,* for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan. 26Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 28Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the descendants of Joktan. 30The territory in which they lived extended from Mesha in the direction of Sephar, the hill country of the east. 31These are the descendants of Shem, by their families, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
32 These are the families of Noah’s sons, according to their genealogies, in their nations; and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.

Answer 2

I have not. However, a couple years ago I bought a "one year bible" and got 3/4 of the way through it. I don't know why I stopped - probably just got lazy. In this bible you read 1 chapt. old testament, 1 chapt. new testament, 1 psalm and 1 proverb every day. It is a great way to read the bible in case you are interested. They have 1 year bibles at any christian book store and you can probably buy them at barnes & nobel or amazon.

Answer 3

I haven't read it cover to cover, but I've gone to mass for about 13 years now. The way the liturgical cycle goes, if you go to daily mass for three years you end up hearing about 95% of the Bible in that time... granted I only go to sunday mass, i'm going to figure I've knocked out about 70% of the bible in the last twelve years

Answer 4

I consider myself a Christian, you may not.

I am reading it for the first time right now (despite having belonged to a church that reads the bible for my whole life-27 years). I am in Amos and still going strong. It has not been easy.

Answer 5

Yes, a few times both NIV and New Living Translation, King James is a little hard to read as I sometimes feel that I am reading a different language.

Answer 6

I have not read through the entire thing yet. I have read many chapters through the entire bible. I have read throught the new testament many time but am trying my hardest to get throught the old testament and am through the chronicals - pray for me

Answer 7

I have but only because my schooling required it word for word. Before then I had read a lrage portion of the bible but I had greatly avoided the epistles.

Answer 8

I have many times and continue to read it on a daily basis.

Answer 9

i've got faith that all of us is entitled to their opinion and that i've got faith that it extremely is not what God deliberate to ensue, yet you're surely nonetheless a Christian in case you help gay rights. Its form of like asserting that persons who...think of cussing is okay are not Christian. it extremely is ridiculous, i be attentive to lots of Christians who cuss! So i think of you're nonetheless a Christian in case you help gay rights. God will consistently decide you extremely.:-)

Answer 10

Sure................read through one Bible after another...........just keep going.........

You can do this..............it's not that long. Remember, the Bible is God's Word (it's alive!) and reading it is very impacting..........it's all good.