How many of you have actually read the Holy Bible from the contents to the maps?

I have not at one setting but over time.

Who honestly reads the Holy Bible? Me. that's the observe of God. people who declare to be christian then why do they no longer turn the different cheek? because of the fact i'm a guy. I attempt, yet I fail time and time returned. for that reason i choose Christ as an recommend. Why do they nevertheless decide others? 1Corinthians 6:3 comprehend ye no longer that we will decide angels? how plenty extra issues that pertain to this existence? a million Corinthians 10:15 I communicate as to smart adult adult males; decide ye what I say. the place are the marriage vows interior the bible? Matthew 19:4 And he responded and mentioned unto them, Have ye no longer examine, that he which made them on the initiating made them lady and male, 5 And mentioned, For this reason shall a guy go away mothers and dads, and shall cleave to his spouse: and that they twain would be one flesh? 6 Wherefore they're not extra twain, yet one flesh. What subsequently God hath joined collectively, enable no longer guy placed asunder. Christian wedding ceremony vows are written in accordance to this Godly theory. Why are there distinctive religions for an identical God? no longer an identical God. Allah isn't the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. he's no longer the writer of heaven and earth. Ask any muslim, and that they're going to inform you that Allah has no Son. Yahweh, writer of heaven and earth, has an only begotten Son who we call Jesus Christ.

Iv'e read the Old Testament quite a lot, many of the tales are actually quite good, well to me they were, they gave me some strange idea's for creating my own dark fantasy universe. Indeed, i had a book published several years ago, which was based upon my own imagined twisted world. This world had a lot of biblical influences, i just twisted the themes to make them even more alien and strange.

If you read through some of the stories, you find that they are filled with strange creatures and other fantasy beings. There are tales of man draining the life force of other people to rejuvenate themselves. King Solomon did this, with a virgin girl when he was ill. It says he knew her not, knowing someone was another way of saying a person had sex with someone. The King embraced her, and rejuvenated himself, kind of like a vampire, but a spiritual one.

Then there is the flesh eating Nephilim, the brood of angels and mankind, the children of Lilith, known as the Lilim, who haunted forests and other natural areas of the world. Tales of Sorcerers bringing back the dead, the vision God sent to someone (I have forgotten his name) but his vision was of a valley of skeletons, who rose from their death, and flesh began to grow upon them.

The Witch of Endor was a Necromancer, who is not evil and used by a Holy king before a battle. Men slaying giants, huge world serpents, people turning into salt. Flames consuming cities, death taking a physical form and descending to take Moses into heaven. It's quite inspiring, at least it inspired me to adapt such ideas and turn them into my own creations.

The New Testament is really boring, no heroes, no nothing. Some of the maps are good, especially the historical ones, which show cities that no longer exist, such as the city of Ur.

I have read it five actually. I am reading it again and finding a lot of stuff I missed the first few times. I like it when anti-Catholics and atheists ask real tough questions it makes me look farther. I do not think anti-Catholic rants are good with no source to research other than an attitude.

I keep reading it over and over.

I keep understanding more and more.

I keep understanding it differently.

The last time I read it from cover to

cover was years ago, but I live it

it daily - and study chapters at a time

now. Sometimes just one word for

days. It's quite subtle sometimes.

I love the maps. It's amazing to me how

much area was travelled on foot in the

dust and sand amidst the rocky terrain

with thongs, or no shoes, and no modern

conveniences along the roadside....

They make me think in pictures differently

than the words do...Combined they form

a more dimensional view of life in Jesus' day.

thanks for the interesting Q :)

I've never read the entire Bible. but I've looked at the maps and read the contents....and a lot of the thing inbetween.

more than that and in addition have worn out a set of audio tapes i used to listen to while working alone for 10 years.

but the important thing i learned was that every time i went through it again i learned new knowledge to me that somehow escaped my grasp from the times before the last - not that i still do not read it but haven't read it cover to cover for a couple of years but still read portions of it every day.

Twice.

I've read the bible more times than I could possibly count. I have also read the qu'ran and the tanakh.

I don't really read it cover to cover, but I've read all of it. Most of it, I've read more than once to several times.

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@Saz: The Tanakh is the Old Testament. If you've read the bible, you've read it.