Bible in a Year! v. February

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BrotherH
bösk1
El JoNNo
gmillerdrake
GuineaPig
hefdaddy
Jamesman
juice
Perpetual Change
Philawallafox
ReaperKK
Rina93
sneakyblueberry
yeshua4
02T

The reading plan we'll be following can be found here: https://www.ewordtoday.com/year/  There are multiple programs they have--just scroll down to your version and click "Beginning" in that row.  We might do one of the other plans in years to come, but the plan from Genesis to Revelation is what we'll be sticking to this time.  

[sneakyblueberry]

I'm in dude!  Would love to do this, I'm pretty much in the same boat as you.

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I'm adding a sign-up sheet so we can see who's participating!

[hefdaddy42]

Are you talking the entire Bible, or just the New Testament?

I did the entire Bible in a year a few years ago.  I'm down.

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Are you talking the entire Bible, or just the New Testament?

I did the entire Bible in a year a few years ago.  I'm down.

All right, now we've got hefdaddy in this thing!   

The whole thing, by the way. 

[hefdaddy42]

Cool.  Even though I'm a Christian, the Hebrew Scriptures are more interesting reading, IMO (except for Leviticus, lol).

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Yeah, the last time I "read" Leviticus was when I uploaded an audio version to my iPod and listened to it as I fell asleep.

[GuineaPig]

The OT is fun reading.  I'd tentatively be down.

[Vivace]

I wish you all the luck

Albiet most people who do this stop after Exodus for obvious reasons. 

[Perpetual Change]

I'm down. I'm gonna try and read a Chinese translation, too, if that's okay with everyone. That way I kill two birds with one stone... hehe.

[In The Name Of Rudess]

I read the bible for the second time last year, so I'm not entering. This is pretty cool idea though. 

[yeshaberto]

I am down...

I highly recommend the Chronological Bible, by F Lagard Smith.  It puts the Bible in chronological order (as much as humanly possible).  For example, the psalms are placed in the middle of the historical sections as they were written, the NT letters are placed in the middle of Acts based on their timing, etc.  Samuel/Kings/Chronicles and the gospels are harmonized into one chronological writing.  It is also divided into daily reading sections. 
It makes a year long reading much more enjoyable.

[hefdaddy42]

I am down...

I highly recommend the Chronological Bible, by F Lagard Smith.  It puts the Bible in chronological order (as much as humanly possible).  For example, the psalms are placed in the middle of the historical sections as they were written, the NT letters are placed in the middle of Acts based on their timing, etc.  Samuel/Kings/Chronicles and the gospels are harmonized into one chronological writing.  It is also divided into daily reading sections. 
It makes a year long reading much more enjoyable.

I just got an email about that translation the other day, and I've been meaning to check it out in more detail.

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I am down...

I highly recommend the Chronological Bible, by F Lagard Smith.  It puts the Bible in chronological order (as much as humanly possible).  For example, the psalms are placed in the middle of the historical sections as they were written, the NT letters are placed in the middle of Acts based on their timing, etc.  Samuel/Kings/Chronicles and the gospels are harmonized into one chronological writing.  It is also divided into daily reading sections. 
It makes a year long reading much more enjoyable.

That does sound like a great way to read through the Bible.  However, since most people don't own that, and since I don't know if it's the best idea for a first time through, I think we'll be sticking with the canonical order.

[sneakyblueberry]

I wish you all the luck

Albiet most people who do this stop after Exodus for obvious reasons. 

Oh yeah.  Any chance we could skip Numbers? 

[Adami]

The OT is fun reading.  I'd tentatively be down.

Yea, reading Deuteronomy makes me laugh, cry and pee at the same time. It's like a michael bay movie in book form.

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I wish you all the luck

Albiet most people who do this stop after Exodus for obvious reasons. 

Oh yeah.  Any chance we could skip Numbers? 

Of all the ones you want to skip, you want it to be Numbers?     There are way more brutal books in there.

[sneakyblueberry]

I wish you all the luck

Albiet most people who do this stop after Exodus for obvious reasons. 

Oh yeah.  Any chance we could skip Numbers? 

Of all the ones you want to skip, you want it to be Numbers?     There are way more brutal books in there.

Well I always thought it was just like 'Gimli was son of Gloin who in turn was son of Groin who fathered three blah blah blah.'  You have to go through the huge lists to get to the good parts.

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I double-checked that lineage because I totally thought you made Groin up...Well done.

[sneakyblueberry]

I double-checked that lineage because I totally thought you made Groin up...Well done.

I'm 2 legit


2 quit

[Philawallafox]

Definitely. I've been needing some accountability with my bible reading.

[Tick]

This is a great idea and a great thread. I kind of have certain planned things I read and study at different times so I wouldn't be able to stick to a planned schedule, but I applaud you all!

[Global Laziness]

I did this back in...2007, I think. I read it pretty much every night and got through it in about six months. It really answered a lot of my questions about Christianity and was partially responsible for moving me to a Christian mindset, albeit not permanently. Over the summer I tried to make it through the Quran but I only made it about a quarter of the way. I do intend to finish it one day though.

[Rina]

I've done this before and I'm up for it again.

[bosk1]

I am down...

I highly recommend the Chronological Bible, by F Lagard Smith.  It puts the Bible in chronological order (as much as humanly possible).  For example, the psalms are placed in the middle of the historical sections as they were written, the NT letters are placed in the middle of Acts based on their timing, etc.  Samuel/Kings/Chronicles and the gospels are harmonized into one chronological writing.  It is also divided into daily reading sections. 
It makes a year long reading much more enjoyable.

I just got an email about that translation the other day, and I've been meaning to check it out in more detail.

I think you probably knew this, but it's not a different "translation."  It's standard NIV.  He just edits it together in such a way that it ends up being chronological (and it's been over a decade since I used it, so I can't remember for certain, but I believe where there appears to be duplication in parallel passages, he only uses one of the two instead of both). 

Anyway...

1.  I'm up for it. 
2.  I think we need a parallel thread for taking bets on who drops out when.  I'm guessing we lose half our numbers before cracking Deuteronomy.

[rumborak]

I've been meaning to read a lot more of the Bible, but the whole thing is too much for me to commit, especially when it comes to sections that do lineage etc. I already spaced out on the NT lineage of Jesus

rumborak

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2.  I think we need a parallel thread for taking bets on who drops out when.  I'm guessing we lose half our numbers before cracking Deuteronomy.

I'm betting people are gonna drop out way before Deuteronomy.

[hefdaddy42]

I am down...

I highly recommend the Chronological Bible, by F Lagard Smith.  It puts the Bible in chronological order (as much as humanly possible).  For example, the psalms are placed in the middle of the historical sections as they were written, the NT letters are placed in the middle of Acts based on their timing, etc.  Samuel/Kings/Chronicles and the gospels are harmonized into one chronological writing.  It is also divided into daily reading sections. 
It makes a year long reading much more enjoyable.

I just got an email about that translation the other day, and I've been meaning to check it out in more detail.

I think you probably knew this, but it's not a different "translation."  It's standard NIV.  He just edits it together in such a way that it ends up being chronological (and it's been over a decade since I used it, so I can't remember for certain, but I believe where there appears to be duplication in parallel passages, he only uses one of the two instead of both).

Oh, I didn't know that.  Haven't had time to check on it.

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Eh, I dunno about a chronological Bible.  I feel like God superintended the canonization process, and that the order of the books is the order they are meant to be in (and meant to be read).

[bosk1]

Why?

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I'm not saying that they have to be read in that order every time, but probably it's best for the first time.  Not that you won't profit if you read it any other way.  I just think God makes his word as simple to understand as possible, so that the truth can be communicated in the most effective way possible.

[bosk1]

I think would be even worse doing it that way for a first-time reader.  Someone without much Bible knowledge is not going to have any context for why some things in the OT seem esoteric, outdated, or just flat-out outlandish (which they do if you don't know why they are there).  Much easier for a first-time reader to just start with the NT. 

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Well, yes, I agree that the New Testament is the place to start.  I didn't mean the first time you ever read the Bible in your life, you should work your way through the OT.  I meant the first time you decide to tackle the whole thing.

But of all the yearlong Bible programs I've seen, where they have you jumping between the OT, the NT, Psalms, and Proverbs, while some of them might definitely be interesting and worth a shot....from what I've heard and from what my instinct tells me, the Genesis-Revelation method is the most enlightening.  But that's just based on my experience.

[GuineaPig]

I don't know if anyone in this thread is a first-time reader, though.

[Vivace]

I think would be even worse doing it that way for a first-time reader.  Someone without much Bible knowledge is not going to have any context for why some things in the OT seem esoteric, outdated, or just flat-out outlandish (which they do if you don't know why they are there).  Much easier for a first-time reader to just start with the NT. 

Actually it's much better for a first time reader to start out with the "story" of the Bible skipping over the parts that do not deal with it, for example Leviticus, numbers, Chronicles, Psalms, Proverbs, etc. The NT is rather easy for any first-time reader since the whole of the NT doesn't digress like the OT does quite a bit.