Have you read the entire bible front to back? (CC content)

[mommaduck]

No, because through most of my life only certain books and partial books of the Bible was made available to me. I'm going back and reading those books that had been missing or incomplete from my life.

My goal this new Church Year will be to follow the readings with the children. I didn't join the 90 Day group, not because of lack of interest, but because I'm presuming that it's using the Protestant Bible, leaving out parts of books and other books that I WANT to read.

[Chris in VA]

Yes, several ways--Episcopalians read the whole thing in 3 years throughout the liturgical year, like our Catholic brothers and sisters.

I also, like KarenNC, took EfM, and read it then (although I confess I did skip a bit here and there). I read it devotionally with my One Year (Daily) Bible. I've done studies on certain books, so they are more familiar to me.

(There's always something new to discover, though.)

[sheryl]

Cover to cover at least 6 times, probably more, but that's what I could recollect for counting at the moment.

Thanks for showing me up!  LOL!  :lol:

[Mama Geek]

No, because through most of my life only certain books and partial books of the Bible was made available to me. I'm going back and reading those books that had been missing or incomplete from my life.

 

My goal this new Church Year will be to follow the readings with the children. I didn't join the 90 Day group, not because of lack of interest, but because I'm presuming that it's using the Protestant Bible, leaving out parts of books and other books that I WANT to read.

You could have joined.  Everyone is reading their own way.  Some are chronological some are from beginning to end.  Mostly in that thread we are just encouraging each other to read and bringing up things that we notice.  It isn't formal and just something to hold us accountable.

[mommaduck]

Thank you. 

 

[abacus2]

Yes, methodically, more than once. I can handle the begets; it's the detailed descriptions of the tabernacle and the temple that get me bogged down.

 

I like the idea of reading the Bible through being a middle school requirement, I may do that. 

[Jean in Newcastle]

Begets don't bother me.  I can get a bit of rhythm going with those!  ;)   The tabernacle and the temple don't bother me.  I'm pretty visual and get these nice pictures going.  What bogs me down are the detailed laws in Leviticus.  You know, the "don't boil a kid in it's mother's milk" type laws.  I skim.  The same as I skim over all the detailed passages on whaling procedure in Moby Dick or the detailed political stuff in Les Miserables.  

[melmichigan]

Yes, I've read it cover to cover, three times now.   The Learning Bible NIV was by far the easiest for me to read, and that is the edition I use with my DC.  

[CanadianAlison+3boys]

I've read it all the way through at least twice, and I read bits and pieces on a regular basis. We also do stories from the bible with the kids as well as scripture that ties in with our history topics regularly.

[Saddlemomma]

Yes front to back once. After the first time, I felt OK about reading everything except all the "beget" s :lol:

 

Same here. Leviticus and Numbers kill me, as well as all the begats.

[Mom-ninja.]

Finished the Old Testament and Apocrypha. Working on New Testament now. I get sidetracked with other school and work stuff though. 

[Mom-ninja.]

I've read it many times and in several languages.  :)

 

What languages? 

 

I'd like to tackle it in German. 

[SKL]

What languages? 

 

I'd like to tackle it in German. 

 

English, Spanish, French, German, and started to read it in Hindi.  My multi-lingual studies were interrupted by the arrival of my kids ~8 years ago.  :P