who has actually read the entire Bible? (page 3)

2+2=5

Don't tell me what happens at the end, I haven't read it yet.

cofty

Spoiler alert - god has special sex with a virgin so he can have a kid who he murders to make everybody love him and so he doesn't have to torment everybody forever - THE END

Ucantnome

i never got past the first couple of books, i read Tobit. i'm a slow reader i like books with pictures.

After attending 5 meetings a week and doing the daily text and and personal study and family study and reading it in field service how much more time did i want to spend reading it. and when i got bored which was most meetings i'd start reading it instead of listening to the drone of the speaker but i've read it cover to cover i've got the gist of it.

cofty

I remember calling on a old guy in Hawick in the Scottish Borders who protested, "you don't have to tell me about the bible - I know my bible from Genesis to Exodus".

GLTirebiter

Several times, various editions.

Gypsy Sam

Word for word when I was 14.

Ucantnome

the word 'never' is missing in my last post in the last line.

it's written in your heart so i don't need to keep reading it.

Athanasius

Though I was raised in the JW religion and had the complete NWT in one volume since 1961, I didn't read the Bible from cover to cover until 1970 when I purchased a copy of the recently published New English Bible. The NWT was such a poor translation that I found it painful to read. But the NEB was easy to read and it took me less than a year to read from Genesis to Revelation. The NEB also included the Deuterocanonical Books, so I read these too.

Others in our congregation also found the NEB a joy to read. One brother liked the NEB so much that when he had the Bible reading in the TMS, he used it in place of the NWT. That didn't go over well with the hardline elders, but since I was the TMS overseer at the time, I let him get away with it. Later there was a Watchtower article that warned against using Bible versions other than the NWT. But I ignored the Watchtower and continued to use other Bible versions for my personal study. But this was a wake up call as I couldn't see why we were required to use an inferior Bible version when there were so many superior Bible Translations available.

rawe

Hi Everyone,

I've read the NWT cover-to-cover twice. Once as personal project and the second time as part of our family Bible reading. We have now started from Genesis again, but this time using The Brick Bible.

Cheers,

-Randy

losingit

End of Mysteries-- you have me curious. Id like to read the Bible in a scholarly way. I dont want to read it as a way to confirm or deny my faith in God. I don't want to read it from a moralistic point of view, to justify or condemn my life choices or those of others. I should look up the college syllabus for such a course and hit the books those kids read.

who has actually read the entire Bible?

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