| Poster | Thread | PaulWest
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| | Re: A Race Against the Clock | | I am reminded of those hotdog eating contests where a bell goes off and the contestants procede to stuff fistfuls of hotdogs in their face and just gulp and gulp and gulp -- no time to chew. What a wonderful way to get a belly ache! Such feats of mass ingestion is not natural, and that's why there's alot of vomitting during and after the sport.
Reading the Bible like this can actually [i]upset[/i] your spiritual stomach. You start shoving mass handfuls of scripture down the gullet without chewing and you will soon notice what I mean. You'll start off strong, but it will soon morph into a burden, a race against the clock. Since you don't have time to taste and chew and properly digest what you're eating, the food will turn into globs of mass that will exit as soon as it enters your head, like water through a sieve.
I've read the entire Bible in a few months, so I can speak from experience. It really did nothing but give me boasting rights. The truth is, I did't retain much of it...much like a hotdog-eating contestant won't retain much nutrients after the event is finished.
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|  2007/7/28 12:20 | Profile | FreebyWord
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| | Re: Through the Bible in 26 Days | |
The Lord has been calling me to read through the bible front to back, for quite some time now. I have difficulty disciplining myself to read straight through in that I meditate on, research, savor particular verses and find myself hours later having read all over the bible.
I consider this to be from the Lord, another call to read straight through but I won't rush. Because of life's circumstances, I am one of few I suspect who can devote hours a day to ruminate over the Word--a gift from the Lord to have this time.
Please pray that the Holy Spirit is with me teaching me all truth and that I not miss anything the Lord has to teach me.
If anyone else is doing this, please stay in touch by email or personal message and let me know how it's going. Thanks and God be with you.
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| | 2007/7/29 16:06 | Profile | hulsey
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| | Re: | | Quote:
Reading the Bible like this can actually upset your spiritual stomach. You start shoving mass handfuls of scripture down the gullet without chewing and you will soon notice what I mean. You'll start off strong, but it will soon morph into a burden, a race against the clock. Since you don't have time to taste and chew and properly digest what you're eating, the food will turn into globs of mass that will exit as soon as it enters your head, like water through a sieve.
Brother Paul,
I agree and disagree with you. I look at it this way: If I'm using a screwdriver to pound in a sixteen penny nail I'm gonna have issues. But I don't throw away my screwdriver because I can't use it to pound in a sixteen penny nail, or any nail for that matter. Instead, I get a hammer and the job becomes much easier. Now when I go to screw in a screw suddenly the screwdriver's usefulness becomes clear.
Likewise, if I use this reading method as a means for in depth study, I'm not going to get much out of it. But just like studying a master work of art, taking a close look serves one purpose, and standing back to look at the whole serves another.
I've been using this reading plan for my bible reading time. (I haven't made it in 26 days yet, but I love how it breaks up the readings.) But I certainly don't use it for Bible study.
Reading the Bible as a whole straight through like this has helped me in forming a good contextual framework of the scriptures.
Blessings,
Jeremy Hulsey
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| | 2007/7/29 16:25 | Profile | PaulWest
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Reading the Bible as a whole straight through like this has helped me in forming a good contextual framework of the scriptures.
Yes, I agree, brother. For getting a grasp of the contextual framework of the Bible [i]as a whole[/i] it is good, though I'm still a bit iffy over the time allotment. 3 months is better, I believe. I think less than a month is too fast; even to get a good textual conception. Just my own thoughts, anyways. The detailed "hotdog" can just as easily morph into a "contextual" watermelon.
I like your "hammer versus screwdriver" illustration! I'm not quite sure what a sixteen penny nail is, but I get the picture. Great point, I agree 100%.
Brother Paul :-)
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| | 2007/7/29 16:54 | Profile | FreebyWord
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| | Re:Through the BIBLE in 26 Days | |
Thanks Brother Hulsey for pointing out reading through the bible cover to cover in 26 days gives one an overall view of God's plan and purpose for man.
I just realized I could be halfway through a chapter in the time it's taken to write this---hmm a lesson there to all of us?
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| | 2007/7/29 17:10 | Profile |
| | Re: | | I actually started the silver level(i think) Where you read the bible 4-1/2 times a year. I just can't do the 26 days level. I wouldn't ever see my family!! So far it is going well, surprisingly, I am retaining better than I thought I would. When I am in Isaiah that seems to be harder to get through it for me. It takes me about an hour to an hour and half.
A thought for those who are not able to read it in 26 days, but maybe one day I will be able to try it.
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| | 2007/8/16 17:41 | |
| | Re: | | One thing that comes to mind when reading the Bible in 26 days is that I have heard many God called preachers preach a 30 minute sermon on 3 to 7 verses. There is so much there we miss if we hurry. Actually the Bible never instructs us to read the Bible but study it. Not knocking any effort to know his word better. Just some thoughts.
2 Tim 2:15
15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
KJV
Please don't take this wrong anyone.
1 Tim 4:15-16
15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
KJV
Ps 119:15-16
15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
KJV
I am a little slow if I read to much at one time it don't stick.
NT:3191
meletao (mel-et-ah'-o); from a presumed derivative of NT:3199; to take care of, i.e. (by implication) revolve in the mind:
KJV - imagine, (pre-) meditate.
(Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright (c) 1994, Biblesoft and International Bible Translators, Inc.)
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| | 2007/8/16 23:37 | | ilive4only1
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| | Re: Read the Entire bible in 26 Days! | |
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"Here, then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy." - R.C. Sproul
Hear, hear!!!!
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| | 2007/8/17 4:10 | Profile | JamesRondon
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| | Re: Read the Entire bible in 26 Days! | | Thanks for the reading plan! May we read, study, and meditate on His word every day...
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