How did you read your Bible? (page 2)

gumby

a "good" christian lifestyle, can bring much good to a persons life.

Okay I know its a little off-track, but thats quite an assumption you are making

No....not an assumption....it's a fact. Many Christian households are happy......and many dubs are happy too(relatively)

Gretchen.....I agree there is happiness in all walks of faith and ones faith doesn't determine happiness. I was simply stating that christianity ALSO has many good ethics to live by. I am not a christian as you already probably know.......but I agree with many of it's principals as I do with other faiths.

Gumgnostic

Gretchen956

You know, personally I really believe that all really spiritual people are happier. The ones that I don't see as happy are the ones that are absolutely sure that every single man woman and child should agree with their take on faith and who spend all their energy and time trying to keep others from being happy. No, I know you are not in that class, mr. gumster. Just a comment for what its worth.

I have read my bible, 6 times the NWT, and once the King James. I also have studied works that put a different take on what went into the making of the bible. Believe me, it was no different then than it is now, a good part of it was patriarchal politics. Read the "Chalice and the Blade."

Gretchen

lollydawdle

Anyone here ever watch Charles Stanley's "In Touch" program on Sundays on TV? He has a Bible teaching ministry. That will whet your appetite for reading the Bible. Or go to intouch.org I use the NIV translation.

galaxy7

I started at the begining and read it all the way through

when i read the new testement i discovered how wrong the witnesses were

got my forty homey?

Dont have a bible, needed it for fire wood one night it was cold and I ran our of newspaper, junkmail, and wood

Still have a Koran and book of Mormon though!.

Carmel

Ignored it for several years post dubby. Began a serious study of Islam and other religions which got me back to reading the bible. Used Strong's concordance and a Study Guide to the Koran as well as other books on Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Sihkism and Hinduism. Didn't take time to learn a new language for each Holy Book, as I would be ninety before I got through the principle ones.

carmel

bebu

I think the gospels are good to read first, if you are already somewhat familiar with the Old Testament. Romans, then Galatians. Then wherever.

In the Old Testament, my favorite books are Psalms and Isaiah. They are good devotional reading--that is, I find things to reflect on in them easily; I don't read them primarily for research.

bebu

zen nudist

in a different direction, after I studied a bit of zen and learned its functions and principles, I found a great deal of zen teachings in both the words of Paul and of Jesus which had not made as much sense to me before hand.

examples:

do not worry over what you will eat or wear.

keep your eye on the prize

he who puts his hand to the plough and looks back is not worthy...

This one especially as it refers to the way ancients used to plough fields.... putting a marker at the end of the field, they ploughed straight for it, but if they were always being destracted by things behind them [the past in our case] they would lose focus and not make straight lines.... which is no different from the zen practice of focusing on what you are doing while you are doing it.

LittleToe

I picked up the KJV and started at the gospel of John, and then his epistles.
It gave me more of a Gnostic flavour, before working on the other stuff.

I'd now recomment "The Message", and starting at John and Mark (You can also get it free as a module for eSword).
Stuff like Hebrews requires a reasonable knowledge of the Pentateuch and Psalms, so I'd leave that for later.

azaria

For study I use the NIV. If I read on my own I often read KJV. I highly recommend a Strong's Concordance. I suggest the Gospel of John and 1John.

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