Never-JW here. I have been through the bible twice. The Psalms and Proverbs four times. You know, us slackers in Christendom with all that time on our hands for personal study....
P.S. I have no interest in visiting Leviticus again in this lifetime.
Who read the WHOLE bible at least once?
by JH 37 Replies latest jw friends
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LB
I've read it a few times. I doubt I'll bother to read it again.
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acsot
Another geek here. I read the Bible through - every word, even the genealogies - at least three times, besides doing a "comparison" of Ecclesiastes and Proverbs - similar proverbs/sayings highlighted in one colour, opposite sayings in another colour. I also read the Insight volumes cover to cover, which I didn't really mind. Now am reading Lao Tse. Later - who knows?
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minimus
I've read it at least 5 times but only to cover the material and say that I read it. I concentrated mostly on refuting any anti-witness "apostasy" by reading the Society's publications.
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patio34
i read it 5 times in the last 6 years i was in and did it simultaneously in 3-4 translations.
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jws
I've never read it from cover-to-cover or even the majority of it. But in the past couple of years, I have gone through and read a book here and there. I'm a slow reader, so reading the entire thing would be major.
The amazing thing to me is just reading it and seeing how different it sound from what I was taught as a JW. When I read the New Testament, I see Christian concepts such as Grace and the simple message to believe that Christ was raised from the dead. The fact that people were receiving Holy Spirit and being baptised the same day as hearing the message, with seemingly little knowledge but a belief in Christ. It all comes through clear, even though I don't attend a church and only have knowledge of Grace and other concepts "by contact", not something I was taught.
I have to wonder what I would have thought reading this as a JW. There was supposed to be recommended reading that would have JWs reading it cover-to-cover over a period of time. There's things I run across and go, man, I never heard that before as a JW. Where did that come from, why didn't I see it? And sometimes I'll even look it up in the JW bible and it's not even worded that differently. But in the context of their wording and with JW blinders on, it probably would have come out as exactly what they teach. The JW bible throws in all these phrases that make it awkward and convolute the meaning. Maybe that's why, as a whole, JW readers aren't questioning, even when they do read the Bible.
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RAYZORBLADE
I never thought I would have, but I did: yup...read the bible at least 2X.
But most of it, I have forgotten.
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Uzzah
As a newboy at Bethel I had to do it in a year. Got little from it.
I did it again but over two years. Got a lot more from that. SO I did it again but used a different translation.
Then did it again over 2 years using a third translation. and kipped 2 years and did it again cover to cover but over a 4 year period comparing NWT to the Living English and King James.
After which I got a life..oops I mean .... Actually by that point I was concentrating on leaving Bethel service and stopped the personal research. I had seen enough that I knew it was time to quit.
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Uzzah
As a newboy at Bethel I had to do it in a year. Got little from it.
I did it again but over two years. Got a lot more from that. SO I did it again but used a different translation.
Then did it again over 2 years using a third translation. and skipped 2 years and did it again cover to cover but over a 4 year period comparing NWT to the Living English and King James.
After which I got a life..oops I mean .... Actually by that point I was concentrating on leaving Bethel service and stopped the personal research. I had seen enough that I knew it was time to quit.
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nowisee
well yes, i have. i am im process of doing it again without (hopefully) wt bias.