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My Journey With The Bible * 1
    #26961121 - 09/29/20 09:33 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

This post is a long time coming for me, although not always in my mind since the beginning of this journey, and I am finally ready to post this. Here is my journey with The Bible.

I finally started reading The Bible in maybe April of 2017, or close to that time. My mom has (our's) the New American Bible she got sometime in the '90s. It has a 1991 copyright. She said she might have gotten it a little after then. It's the one I have been using since I first started reading it. It has gold gilded edges and the light tan paper and font look nice.

I didn't have a religion or any beliefs, but I was open minded and wanted to read it period.

I think the first place I took The Bible to read was in a big chair in Barnes & Noble. My plan was to read it cover to cover. I didn't have a lot of knowledge of The Bible, and I wanted to go in order, with how this Bible arranged it that is. Not everything is in regards to order.  I started from the beginning, the introduction and everything before Genesis. I didn't understand everything, so I took my time reading, even if I didn't understand it. When I got to Genesis I discovered there are footnotes and a whole lot of names I didn't know how I pronounced yet still read them anyway. My ocd kicked in since the beginning of my Bible journey. I treated this with the utmost importance. I don't remember when I started this with the footnotes, whether it be during Genesis or one of the chapters after, but if a footnote presented a spoiler (yes, I'm talking spoilers here) I skipped over them. There's a lot of words in The Bible I didn't understand, so I would go on Google to look up the definition of them a lot. I read The Bible during my breaks at work at least one time.

I don't remember when I finished Genesis, but it took me a while. It took me a few months I think, or maybe over a year actually. For whatever reason I stopped reading a while after I finished Genesis because I was trying to focus on other things and wanted to try to enjoy The Bible when I started reading again. I said try, because of the importance I put in it and me trying to understand what I'm reading, re-reading, and looking up definitions to words made me not always enjoy it as much as I'd like to have.

I was inspired by my friend and other things in my life to pick it up again in February of 2019. This time I was I was determined to be consistent with it. It didn't take me long to ramp up my reading despite how long it took me to read a lot of the chapters and footnotes. At some point either during Genesis before February of 2019 or during this stretch of reading I decided not to look at definitions too much unless I felt it was that necessary at that time. Eventually I started taking The Bible to read in libraries some days. Some days I'd read it in the car. I also read it in parks. My original goal was to finish The Bible by I think Christmas, if not then definitely by Three Kings' Day. I "finished" (quotations because there's no part of The Bible I will not read again) in I think sometime in November in the afternoon I think one day. At night after coming home I went to start to read The New Testament. The anticipation to finally get to Jesus in The Bible was one of the reasons why reading cover to cover was worth it. I read the introductions and stuff first, and whatever "spoiler" there was I skipped over. I loved The Gospels right away. Only thing though is the mountain of footnotes sent my ocd into overdrive as soon as I saw it:lol:. I decided to take it a lot easier (well, slower). That first night I read two chapters and their footnotes, then only one and their footnotes every other day (didn't always get to read it every day). It wasn't always the same amount, but it was taking a long time. This time my goal was to finish by Christmas of this year.

When the covid thing really started having a big impact around the world in March, this is where things changed. I left my job, and there was no excuse for me to not reading The Bible consistently. I started off with still not reading more than a chapter or two every other day, but that completely changed. I started reading a few every other day, then usually ten. It took me a few hours every day, but I was determined. Finally I finished on May 20th. This wasn't the end of this particular Bible journey though. The next stage was to read every footnote cover to cover, ones I read and ones I didn't, and also the introductions in The Bible whether I read them all or not, and finally reading everything after The Bible, including the list of all the Popes up until 1991, history of The Bible, and reading and looking at the maps at the end. This second stage also was intense for me and eventually I started speed reading with help from an article I found on Google. I wasn't going to understand everything just by reading footnotes, but hey, I wanted to accomplish it that much. I might have finished this on July 1st.

Then the third stage was up. I wanted to read the introductions of The New American Bible again along with reading some of the early parts of Genesis since it was a long time since I read it. I also had The New Revised Standard Version a customer gave me in The Whole Foods parking lot, and also The New American Revised Edition from 2011 which I got for my mom in 2017. I also read the introductions and the first chapter of Genesis along with their footnotes in those as well. First the NAB, then the NRSV, then the NABRE. I did this to compare the ones I had at home (not back and forth, only if I noticed something in memory) With The New American Bible I read a lot more than I expected and read maybe until Genesis chapter 29, or a later chapter with Rachel. I read all three from the night of July 3rd to sometime after 2 AM the morning of July 4th. I read a small portion more of Genesis in the NSRV and NABRE that afternoon or night, either just the beginning of chapter 2 or in it's entirety.

The fourth and final step for this particular journey was to listen to an audio Bible of the 1991 version of The New American Bible. This was not as easy to come across as I thought it would be. I looked on YouTube and places to buy it. After a few days I found one to buy (might have come across it before the day I decided to buy it) which is an MP3 player with just that on it, confirmed the version with a woman from customer service, and got it a few days later. This afternoon I finally finished it.

It's incredible I actually did all this in the time span I did, especially considering my ocd and passion for this. Living in the present I was not. I only told my mom after each step was completed (the rest of my family heard and my mom told her one friend that I finished reading The Bible, that's it). My friends won't even find out about this until after this post or I tell them otherwise. They don't even know I finished reading it back in May. I didn't want to say I finished any of these until I finished them all. I was vague after being asked with how much reading I had left even though I was done reading a while. I didn't read any websites in relation to The Bible, TV, etc., during this journey for the most part. I treated anything as spoilers even after I read them (even after listening to an audio version I still don't remember everything, which is to no surprise to anybody else who is familiar with The Bible). Although I don't recommend anybody taking this somewhat intense approach, I don't regret it. There's many more things I want to read, but I can finally ease back significantly with how I read things, or I'm gonna try! I can and maybe will add more to this journey in this thread. I'm still in search for answers, still want to grow spiritually. One thing I can say for sure is that many types of people can benefit from The Bible. I definitely did. I love it.


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Re: My Journey With The Bible [Re: SprewellSleeve]
    #26966297 - 10/02/20 04:44 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

That's cool, but I really to recommend to begin reading Mathew than Romans, or yea, Genesis is a good start, but I really think you should start with the New testament, the Old testament is veiled, the New Testament is un-veiled, so they say.

also, the Poetry and Wisdom books of the old Testament are precious to my Heart. Ecclesiastes, Proverbs, Psalms, Song of Solomon And Job, Amazing stuff! :smirk:

But after reading it, How did you feel? a Believer as it is Literal History? symbolic? are you Wiser? was it Painful or conflicting to your Mind for some reason?


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Re: My Journey With The Bible [Re: saintdextro]
    #26967619 - 10/03/20 01:19 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

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saintdextro said:
That's cool, but I really to recommend to begin reading Mathew than Romans, or yea, Genesis is a good start, but I really think you should start with the New testament, the Old testament is veiled, the New Testament is un-veiled, so they say.

also, the Poetry and Wisdom books of the old Testament are precious to my Heart. Ecclesiastes, Proverbs, Psalms, Song of Solomon And Job, Amazing stuff! :smirk:

But after reading it, How did you feel? a Believer as it is Literal History? symbolic? are you Wiser? was it Painful or conflicting to your Mind for some reason?



I'm open-minded to it being literal and symbolic. It happened so long ago that I don't have an opinion about that. It helped me become a better person (I lust a lot less now for example). It was never painful (well, the amount of reading I did was at times, but I put that on myself :lol:). There's so much to learn.

How about you?


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Re: My Journey With The Bible [Re: SprewellSleeve]
    #26967838 - 10/03/20 03:58 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

I was raised Christian, going to Church every Sunday for Sunday School  and a service which I mostly slept through. Didn't begin reading it myself till I was about 11, I started with Mathew and quickly said to myself "hey, this guy I believed in for all these years is really cool, I'm sure glad I believe in him!"

I was however Home schooled because my whole life because this, Evolution theory drugs in schools, etc. Which I've come to believe or do regularly.

Shroomery came along when I was 17 years old, People talking about Meditation and Eastern Philosophy got me very interested in that stuff, like Yoga from the Neck up (I'm gonna start with Yoga on the Body when this Covid goes away.). Still a Believer in Jesus, the Majority of the New Testament, the Old Testament seems to be both Symbolic and Historical, where one ends and the other begins I don't know, growing up it was ALL Literally True and the Word of God with no spelling errors or mistakes,,, un-guilty and not hurt by the change from what it's become to me now, I think it's worth reading a few times, whether your a Believer or just got time as a Human Being to Read the Most Popular Book in History, it's full of wisdom and nice stories, honestly, I've never read the whole Old Testament.


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"He who finds peace and joy
And radiance within himself
That man becomes one with God
And vanishes into God's bliss."

-Bhagavad Gita, 5.24
One 21 - Building Better Bombs
One 21 - Pacified
One 21 - Two Sides Is Fine
"Respectability is a cloak for the hypocrite" - Jiddu Krishnamurti


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