Readibng the Bible

No, I don't read the Bible in a year schedule. I have known people who have read the entire Bible many times without any changes in their lives. But, I certainly don't disregard those who do it... the question is why one does it.

I have read through the whole Bible a couple times. Two times I did it on my own. Every morning I would wake up before my daughters woke and read alittle bit while I relaxed with my morning coffee. Then once I read it through for a Bible study at church. It might seem like such a huge task to read through the whole Bible. But it is worth it. There is so much info to learn from, ponder on and bring into your heart.

I have read the whole Bible and done it a couple of different ways. I have read it straight through and I have used one of those Bible-in-a-year programs. I like to read it with some study books to get more out of my reading.

Oh Yes, I used to study the bible and read it through quite often! I even taught Sunday School. But because I am one of those who Question everything, the bible began to come up short. There were too many discrepancies between the bible and science. Was the world 5000 years old as the bible states or was it 5 Billion years old as science states? This unanswered Question as well as countless others caused me to drop Religion from my life and find my own answers.

I completely read through the Bible one time. Then, I was told that if you read all the verses at the bottom of the pages in the little daily devotion book that you would have read the whole Bible in a year. I tested that, underlining what I was reading. It wasn't even close to the entire Bible. So, then I spent the next year underlining anything that wasn't already from the verses that the devotion was written about. That didn't work either. I just completed going through that Bible reading everything that wasn't underlined! Marsha