Reading the Bible through in a year

[pastor's wife]

Yes, that's the story. As an adult, I've come across it, but as a child, I never could track it down, but it horrified me and I never forgot it.

[Scorpio]

(03-07-2011 07:50 PM)hac84 Wrote:  .....Anyways, what if what you read doesn't agree with what the MOG screams?

That means you're not saved At least that is what I heard all the time. I love the scream part also. I figured out that the loudest the MOg screams, the weaker the point he trying to make.

[JWK]

(03-07-2011 12:41 PM)GraceThruFaith Wrote:  This past January, I attempted to read the whole Bible in a month. I was on pace until I reached Isaiah, and I completely stopped for the rest of the month. I don't like reading that much Scripture because I don't remember anything. I look back and the only reason I did it was to say that I did it.

Reading the Bible through every month was actually suggested by David Gibbs in a chapel message I remember from way back when (and I was going to make a sarcastic post about how Gibbs would have found even the once-a-year crowd to be slacking). He went to some trouble to show that doing it was actually not that difficult: "Forty-five minutes in the morning and forty-five minutes at night. You can make the time for that!" Since then I've actually thought about trying it (like you, just to be able to say I did it), but I wasn't even able to make it as far as Isaiah.

[Beowulf]

Last year for Lent I listened to the entire Alexander Scourby KJV rendition. I was able to complete it well within the allotted 40 days. Talk about penitence!

One aspect about hearing or reading the whole thing in such a compressed time frame is that when a New Testament character quotes from previous scripture, that passage is still relatively fresh in your memory. It's also easier to spot internal inconsistencies, usually in those long, long genealogies, etc.