About to read this for the first time

KJV for a good reading, NASB for a very literal reading.

Read the nag hammadi library instead, much better

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Jesus dies, that's pretty much the whole plot of the book, you don't even need to read it now.
Have a look at pic related instead.

Proof you didn't read it

And he comes back too, but that part is bullshit because it is impossible.

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with lots of winsest

Go back to /k/, edgelord.

OP, I'm hijacking your thread to ask if there's any sort of "guide" out there to comprehensively read the bible? It's a very confusing and hard read if read like a normal book cover to cover from what I've heard.

Friend, go to the site Bible Gateway and then reading plans, there are reduced chronological reading, historical reading plans and alot others. Good luck

>he fell for the bible meme

Thank you, I'll check that out.

Who is this semen sauce boss?

You'll be reading a lot of good information and interesting ideas and strategies to use in your own life, then you learn about Jesus...

a book of of made-up,fucking fairy tales

>>>reddit

It's a hell of a read.
The Old Testament is all history. If you want, you can skip that at first. The first four books of the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) is one of the more important parts of the book. Read those first. The rest of the book can also be put off for now. It's very interesting though. 10/10, would recommend.

I'm like 800 pages in and I'm reading the Psalms and they are boring as shit.

Book of Job is GOAT. It's a very very complex piece of writing. I wasn't expecting it to hit me as hard as it did.

I can't wait to get to the NT, but I know I have like 300+ more pages of OT historical battles and stuff to slog through before then.

I skipped Chronicles, and regret reading Leviticus (man, was that boring).

I've tried reading it multiple times, can never get past genesis or whenever they start listing off all the names. It's really a terrible piece of writing if the quality stays at that level the whole time, what a hack of a book. I should probably skip to the better/more historically significant parts, but I just like to do things all or nothing. It's a weakness I suppose

>Considered an undiscovered avant garde masterpiece and supposedly the Ulysses of my City, and possibly the only worthwhile book taking place in it.
>No library in my City has it.
>Only one shitty paperback from 1968 for sale on Amazon costing $200

Has anyone here gotten a hold of this and read it, either print or digital?

which translation are you reading?

With God all things are possible.

KJV

no but there's a few on ebay for the $30 price range

who here ecclesiastes?

to be bored

Depends which "book".

New Testament (or New Covenant) is pretty mind blowing tbqh familia

>ecclesiastes
if only more of the memester's here actually read this

it's proto "notes from the underground"

here

Get The New Oxford Annotated Bible, you can download it over the internet. It uses NRSV translation, which is the most historically accurate out there, and it has a commentary in the footnotes.

LIES

A pretty interesting book with some really good stories and some really dry ones.

If the writers of the Bible had the audacity to lie about the nature and revelations of God, without fear of His wrath, they were either heathens or atheists.

>It uses NRSV translation, which is the most historically accurate out there,
better than NASB?

I think there's a flowchart of this somewhere, and KJV and NASB are apparently the most faithful translations.

It's mostly irony and satire, so keep your wits about you.

good reddit

Haha :))

Nice one XD

Upvoted :P

Moses

Please, for the love of God, get books on Christian/Jewish Ethics, or at-least some form of primer, in order to explain the concepts present within the OT in particular. If you jump into it without experience, you will be confused.

Also, I recommend the RSV, not the King James.

why am I laughing so hard

bruh.

i just finished metamorphoses and now i'm going straight into the bible...
'm going to read it back to back... i think i should be finished before september, probably mid august.
if you keep posting we can see how far the other is and compare notes. my code name is biblebrah

it shows a lot about human behavior. Our fears and desires, what makes us tick.

yes it is fiction, if you are honest with yourself you will see that instantly.

But you'll also see history and humanity in it. There is a reason billions of people believe this absurdness

You should expect: Incest, God's anger, God's wrath, Death, Jesus' parables, a lot of weird symbolism, angels (as they are his personal messengers, read about Michael in the book of revelations for example, or the angel used for Sodom and Gomorrah to help Lot and his family).

There is so much to expect so it's hard to put all of this in one post, but I happen to have read the new testament years ago, now reading the old. I also happen to have more than the average scriptural knowledge probably, since I hang out with a Jehovah witness and go to their meetings frequently.

Why don't I pull out some of my favourite quotes from my notepad document?

Romans 12:14
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.

Romans 13:21
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

John 10:11
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.

Luke 10:19
Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents
and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Revelation 1:8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, says the Lord,
"who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."

Revelation 9:11
And they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon.

tl:;dr

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It isn't fiction. Fiction is written by an author knowing that the work isn't true but without the intent to deceive the audience. Even if you disbelieve the Bible's claims you'd still have to classify it as nonfiction, since the writers and original audiences believed it.

fkng lol

By that definition the Book of Mormon is nonfiction.

>Start reading Genesis
>Get to chapter 12
>All these fucking names, Jesus fuck. How am I supposed to remember any of these?
>Half this shit is just retarded and God comes across as an asshole
>Get bored
>Go jerk off to Porn

If there's a Hell, then I'm going to it. Fuck it.

I don't think most of the original writers would have classified their work as nonfiction, actually. A lot of it is allegorical fiction, lyrical poetry, etc.

If you ever end up studying New Testament in college you are probably going to use NRSV. I think its the same for OT as well.

Jesus dies

good reddit!

I'm also reading the bible and just skip the 30children of every character, who cares really, it's not relevant at all.

Get ready to see how much Christianity changed and modernized itself and compare it to shitty Islam which still takes everything in its holy book literally.

read Job and Revelations. you can skip the rest. Job is good when looked at as a philosophical text, and Revelations is just entertaining.

Wrong. it is relevant, often it is.. All these little stories that tell you so much, you could learn from it and you ignore an important part of it? Makes no sense at all : ) : ) : )

Also, if you commit and decide to read a book.. read the whole book? just makes sense, or maybe it's just me.

An incomplete story written to be an ongoing work, that's been self censored through time.

The most evil thing ever created by mankind, other than the quran.

I'm thinking about reading it and wondering how to tackle it. Are these good ways to start?

>New Testament

It's literally fanfiction, old testament or fuck off.

Why David was punished for making a census?
Were Solomon's lions real, or from gold?

No, at least not in order, read revelations at the end

"thing"

-calls the holy bible "thing"
-"evil"
-Quran

Go away, troll.

KJV is the canon version.

>Revelations is just entertaining

This is mostly why I'm still reading through the Bible. I heard there's dragons.

God is a dick.

There. Saved you from having to read this badly written fantasy trash.

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SJW homilies

Expect half fact and half fiction

You should read this book instead, 100% fact :)

youtube.com/watch?v=FEVaXyu0lWc

Youve probably never even read it either. Faggot.

>what should i expect?

>begat
>begat
>begat
>begat

I'm looking to study orthodox judaism, any tips?

Hey, I'm doing the same thing. Are you eventually thinking of converting? My answer will depend on that.

funny

>Hans Christian Anderson wrote better fairy tails desu senpai

>implying it isn't

If youre reading just to read make sure you read the noncanon Ethiopian books

a meme

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