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Lillemor said:I've decided to begin to read the Bible. I'm being serious. I got one for my 18th birthday with reading plans in. I read the two week plan last Fall. I began on the 1 year plan but put it off because I was ill so often during the winter but I'll pick up again.
Good for you, Lillemor! I happen to be a believer, myself...but whether you are reading it for inspiration, or "just" as history/social history....the bible is a foundation stone of Western culture, and every literate person will be the better for a familiarity with it. What edition are you reading?
There are sections that are VERY hard going...and some of them come very much at the beginning (Leviticus; Deuteronomy). Again: they're valuable to read for the insights they provide, above and beyond any spiritual benefit...but about the 33rd "begat" or 1,033 dietary regulation....the best of us begin to flag a bit.
If you really want to read it all, end-to-end, a couple of chapters a night I find quite doable.
The Old Testament is the slowest going (and most of the Bible!)...the New Testament, seeing as it's dealing with 33, instead of 3,000 years and was written (comparatively) in one place, at one time, for one purpose is much more of "a story." And Acts is the most "story-like" book of them all. The action takes place in a world we know an awful lot about...and reading about that world is fascinating in its own right.
Keep us posted on where you are, and what you think!
"Skeet"