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[injurai]

Well, only the New Testament was written in Greek.

ahh ya, that sounds about right. The old testament was in hebrew I suppose.

 

[ComputerMKII]

ahh ya, that sounds about right. The old testament was in hebrew I suppose.

With a few parts in Aramaic.

 

[ComputerMKII]

(double post)

 

[Schattenjäger]

This sounds like a great idea - will try to keep up

 

[Triple Oceans]

I actually had a friend of mine recently who read the bible in a year this year and gave me a reading plan that he used. Once I find it, I'll list it in this thread.

 

[ComputerMKII]

Here's a good addition if you're gonna read the Bible:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheBible

 

[Xeke]

Alrighty ya'll. We start tomorrow. Here is the first days readings if you want to get a head start.

Genesis 1-3.

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was empty, a formless mass cloaked in darkness. And the Spirit of God was hovering over its surface. 3 Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 And God saw that it was good. Then he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day" and the darkness "night." Together these made up one day. 6 And God said, "Let there be space between the waters, to separate water from water." 7 And so it was. God made this space to separate the waters above from the waters below. 8 And God called the space "sky." This happened on the second day. 9 And God said, "Let the waters beneath the sky be gathered into one place so dry ground may appear." And so it was. 10 God named the dry ground "land" and the water "seas." And God saw that it was good. 11 Then God said, "Let the land burst forth with every sort of grass and seed-bearing plant. And let there be trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. The seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came." And so it was. 12 The land was filled with seed-bearing plants and trees, and their seeds produced plants and trees of like kind. And God saw that it was good. 13 This all happened on the third day. 14 And God said, "Let bright lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night. They will be signs to mark off the seasons, the days, and the years. 15 Let their light shine down upon the earth." And so it was. 16 For God made two great lights, the sun and the moon, to shine down upon the earth. The greater one, the sun, presides during the day; the lesser one, the moon, presides through the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set these lights in the heavens to light the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 This all happened on the fourth day. 20 And God said, "Let the waters swarm with fish and other life. Let the skies be filled with birds of every kind." 21 So God created great sea creatures and every sort of fish and every kind of bird. And God saw that it was good. 22 Then God blessed them, saying, "Let the fish multiply and fill the oceans. Let the birds increase and fill the earth." 23 This all happened on the fifth day. 24 And God said, "Let the earth bring forth every kind of animal -- livestock, small animals, and wildlife." And so it was. 25 God made all sorts of wild animals, livestock, and small animals, each able to reproduce more of its own kind. And God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, "Let us make people in our image, to be like ourselves. They will be masters over all life -- the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the livestock, wild animals, and small animals." 27 So God created people in his own image; God patterned them after himself; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and told them, "Multiply and fill the earth and subdue it. Be masters over the fish and birds and all the animals." 29 And God said, "Look! I have given you the seed-bearing plants throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food. 30 And I have given all the grasses and other green plants to the animals and birds for their food." And so it was. 31 Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was excellent in every way. This all happened on the sixth day.

1 So the creation of the heavens and the earth and everything in them was completed. 2 On the seventh day, having finished his task, God rested from all his work. 3 And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested from his work of creation. 4 This is the account of the creation of the heavens and the earth. When the LORD God made the heavens and the earth, 5 there were no plants or grain growing on the earth, for the LORD God had not sent any rain. And no one was there to cultivate the soil. 6 But water came up out of the ground and watered all the land. 7 And the LORD God formed a man's body from the dust of the ground and breathed into it the breath of life. And the man became a living person. 8 Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he placed the man he had created. 9 And the LORD God planted all sorts of trees in the garden -- beautiful trees that produced delicious fruit. At the center of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10 A river flowed from the land of Eden, watering the garden and then dividing into four branches. 11 One of these branches is the Pishon, which flows around the entire land of Havilah, where gold is found. 12 The gold of that land is exceptionally pure; aromatic resin and onyx stone are also found there. 13 The second branch is the Gihon, which flows around the entire land of Cush. 14 The third branch is the Tigris, which flows to the east of Asshur. The fourth branch is the Euphrates. 15 The LORD God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and care for it. 16 But the LORD God gave him this warning: "You may freely eat any fruit in the garden 17 except fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat of its fruit, you will surely die." 18 And the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion who will help him." 19 So the LORD God formed from the soil every kind of animal and bird. He brought them to Adam to see what he would call them, and Adam chose a name for each one. 20 He gave names to all the livestock, birds, and wild animals. But still there was no companion suitable for him. 21 So the LORD God caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep. He took one of Adam's ribs and closed up the place from which he had taken it. 22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib and brought her to Adam. 23 "At last!" Adam exclaimed. "She is part of my own flesh and bone! She will be called 'woman,' because she was taken out of a man." 24 This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one. 25 Now, although Adam and his wife were both naked, neither of them felt any shame.

1 Now the serpent was the shrewdest of all the creatures the LORD God had made. "Really?" he asked the woman. "Did God really say you must not eat any of the fruit in the garden?" 2 "Of course we may eat it," the woman told him. 3 "It's only the fruit from the tree at the center of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God says we must not eat it or even touch it, or we will die." 4 "You won't die!" the serpent hissed. 5 "God knows that your eyes will be opened when you eat it. You will become just like God, knowing everything, both good and evil." 6 The woman was convinced. The fruit looked so fresh and delicious, and it would make her so wise! So she ate some of the fruit. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her. Then he ate it, too. 7 At that moment, their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they strung fig leaves together around their hips to cover themselves. 8 Toward evening they heard the LORD God walking about in the garden, so they hid themselves among the trees. 9 The LORD God called to Adam, "Where are you?" 10 He replied, "I heard you, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked." 11 "Who told you that you were naked?" the LORD God asked. "Have you eaten the fruit I commanded you not to eat?" 12 "Yes," Adam admitted, "but it was the woman you gave me who brought me the fruit, and I ate it." 13 Then the LORD God asked the woman, "How could you do such a thing?""The serpent tricked me," she replied. "That's why I ate it." 14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you will be punished. You are singled out from all the domestic and wild animals of the whole earth to be cursed. You will grovel in the dust as long as you live, crawling along on your belly. 15 From now on, you and the woman will be enemies, and your offspring and her offspring will be enemies. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel." 16 Then he said to the woman, "You will bear children with intense pain and suffering. And though your desire will be for your husband, he will be your master." 17 And to Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate the fruit I told you not to eat, I have placed a curse on the ground. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it. 18 It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains. 19 All your life you will sweat to produce food, until your dying day. Then you will return to the ground from which you came. For you were made from dust, and to the dust you will return." 20 Then Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all people everywhere. 21 And the LORD God made clothing from animal skins for Adam and his wife. 22 Then the LORD God said, "The people have become as we are, knowing everything, both good and evil. What if they eat the fruit of the tree of life? Then they will live forever!" 23 So the LORD God banished Adam and his wife from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made. 24 After banishing them from the garden, the LORD God stationed mighty angelic beings to the east of Eden. And a flaming sword flashed back and forth, guarding the way to the tree of life.

 

[ComputerMKII]

It feels weird not to read this in the King James version, but it doesn't matter.

 

[Xeke]

It feels weird not to read this in the King James version, but it doesn't matter.

Yeah I do think this version is more accessible to people. It's interesting how it appears the trinity is shown in these opening verses while I don't believe it is present in older ones.

26 Then God said, "Let us make people in our image, to be like ourselves. They will be masters over all life -- the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the livestock, wild animals, and small animals."

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

It's in other versions, it's likely either just the royal "we" or referring to the heavenly host.

 

[ClovingWestbrook]

Yeah I do think this version is more accessible to people. It's interesting how it appears the trinity is shown in these opening verses while I don't believe it is present in older ones.

Not really. It's not plural in the sense of multiple people. Rather it's the heavenly court

(a) From Philo onward, Jewish commentators have generally held that the plural is used because God is addressing his heavenly court, i.e., the angels (cf. Isa 6:8). Among recent commentators, Skinner, von Rad, Zimmerli, Kline, Mettinger, Gispen, and Day prefer this explanation.

And

The choice then appears to lie between interpretations (a) “us” = God and angels or (e) plural of self-exhortation. Both are compatible with Hebrew monotheism

.

Obviously, early church fathers would see it as describing the personhood of the triune God but its clear thats not what the author(s) of Genesis thought.

**the quotes come from the Genesis commentary from te Word Biblical Commentary set.

 

[Junior Asparagus]

Well, I did the first day's reading, at least.

God called the light "day" and the darkness "night." Together these made up one day.

I know this is all translation, but I thought this was kinda funny. C'mon God, if the light's called "day," come up with a new word for a day.

So God must have known that Adam and Eve would eat from the tree, right? Was it just some kind of test? Why put the tree there in the first place? Do those trees ever come up again? Also, does this assume all people have shame in being naked?

 

[youngwerther]

Well, I did the first day's reading, at least.



I know this is all translation, but I thought this was kinda funny. C'mon God, if the light's called "day," come up with a new word for a day.

So God must have known that Adam and Eve would eat from the tree, right? Was it just some kind of test? Why put the tree there in the first place? Do those trees ever come up again? Also, does this assume all people have shame in being naked?

Christianity trembles before the veritable might of your iconoclastic inquisitiveness.

 

[Timedog]

It's an awful book, like lord of the rings. it even copied LOTR with that whole pages and pages of listing lineages bullshit. No, I'm sorry, I don't want to read "Melchizdek who was son of Ular who was son of Thonig who was..."

Reading the bible is like poop in my mouth.

 

[SRG01]

Well, I did the first day's reading, at least.



I know this is all translation, but I thought this was kinda funny. C'mon God, if the light's called "day," come up with a new word for a day.

So God must have known that Adam and Eve would eat from the tree, right? Was it just some kind of test? Why put the tree there in the first place? Do those trees ever come up again? Also, does this assume all people have shame in being naked?

Well, the OT is mostly meant to be allegorical, right?

 

[Bloodbeard]

I could see reading the Oxford English version, but I've already got a lot of reading on my plate for 2013.

 

[ClovingWestbrook]

It's an awful book, like lord of the rings. it even copied LOTR with that whole pages and pages of listing lineages bullshit. No, I'm sorry, I don't want to read "Melchizdek who was son of Ular who was son of Thonig who was..."

Reading the bible is like poop in my mouth.

Then wtf are you in this thread for?

 

[Junior Asparagus]

Well, the OT is mostly meant to be allegorical, right?

Well I would say most people think that now, but I doubt people thought that throughout history. I just don't have much background on the actual Bible so I was wondering if there are actually answers to these things, or if people just take the text for what it says, and that's that.

 

[teruterubozu]

I've been reading this. Cliffnotes on Genesis.

 

[forknknife]

Wow, first day and it is already filled with ignorance, misogyny and fearmongering. But thankfully it is all just metaphors for everybody to interpret subjectively, of course. In any case I think it is interesting to read so I will try to keep up with the thread.

 

[Kurtofan]

Shit man, I'm starting to understand the expression "god-fearing"

 

[SRG01]

Well I would say most people think that now, but I doubt people thought that throughout history. I just don't have much background on the actual Bible so I was wondering if there are actually answers to these things, or if people just take the text for what it says, and that's that.

Not sure if this is totally accurate so someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but much of Genesis (and a lot of the Torah) have not been taken literally for many centuries (if not millenia) at least for Christianity.

 

[chaosblade]

Not sure if this is totally accurate so someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but much of Genesis (and a lot of the Torah) have not been taken literally for many centuries (if not millenia) at least for Christianity.

This is the case as far as I know, but it's kind of selective since certain stories are preached as-is as a "see how GREAT God is" sort of thing. I guess it depends on your church and denomination though. Stuff like Noah, Moses, Jonah, the three guys that were thrown into the fire, etc were all taught to me as if they were literal at every church I ever went to.

To be honest though, Christianity would be completely indefensible (more so than it already is, I guess) if the entire OT was taken literally.

Shit man, I'm starting to understand the expression "god-fearing"

Yeah, God is a dick.

 

[Trurl]

Is the Enoch descended from Cain a different person than the Enoch descended from Seth, or are the two Enochs an example of Genesis being composed of conflicting sources?

Gen. 6:4 is interesting.

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the sons of God went in to the daughters of humans, who bore children to them. These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown.​

 

[Bloodbeard]

27 So God created people in his own image; God patterned them after himself; male and female he created them.

So we are made in God's image, and yet in the words of Augustine and John Calvin we are tragically sinful and cannot chose to follow God, but are chosen by God to follow (we're not there yet, but the "many are called, but few are chosen" in Matthew is the biblical source of the idea). I've never understood the mental gymnastics involved with making those two idea cogent, however. Seems like this image of God is something we should keep in mind for when we get to the New Testament.

 

[flippedb]

Oh I'm in, but I'll read the one I have in my house, since it's way easier for me to comprehend whats being said when I read it in my native language (spanish).

Are we starting from Genesis? I'll try and "bookmark" all the fucked up parts.

 

[Junior Asparagus]

Are we starting from Genesis? I'll try and "bookmark" all the fucked up parts.

Yeah, you can at least click on the link in the OP and see which passages are scheduled for which days, but it's going in order.

And yeah, God is kind of a dick. Why did he reject Cain's gift?

 

[Bombadil]

Yeah, you can at least click on the link in the OP and see which passages are scheduled for which days, but it's going in order.

And yeah, God is kind of a dick. Why did he reject Cain's gift?

Abel was a shepherd. Cain was a farmer.

The blood of the living contains mana, which is energy. Mana, not manna.

Cain's sacrifice was weak because it contained no blood. It wasn't really a sacrifice.

God accepted Abel's gift because Abel actually sacrificed something. Energy was spilt in the name of God.

So, Cain got pissed off and killed his brother, spilling his energy. God knew it right away because Abel's blood screamed out to him.

In Greek mythology, killing your relatives brings a miasma upon you. A miasma is a corruption. Cain was banished so that the corruption that enshrouded him would not infect the land.

The play Oedipus Rex has similar themes.

Also, the foundation myth of Rome involving Romulus and Remus has similar themes.

 

[Cyan]

Assuming I remember to keep up, I'll be reading the KJV.

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was empty, a formless mass cloaked in darkness. And the Spirit of God was hovering over its surface. 3 Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 And God saw that it was good. Then he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day" and the darkness "night." Together these made up one day. 6 And God said, "Let there be space between the waters, to separate water from water." 7 And so it was. God made this space to separate the waters above from the waters below. 8 And God called the space "sky." This happened on the second day.

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

It's like night and day. Which, you'll recall, together make up one day or whatever.

Seriously, that New Living thing is like reading the weeaboo Chrono Trigger translation from back when.

 

[mu cephei]

I might join in with this, if I can get my hands on a King James Bible. I'm an atheist and I've never read it, but it was a pain when trying to read Brothers Karamazov a while ago and not having a clue about all the references.

 

[Cyan]

I might join in with this, if I can get my hands on a King James Bible.

It's not that hard.

 

[Dunk#7]

Well, I did the first day's reading, at least.



I know this is all translation, but I thought this was kinda funny. C'mon God, if the light's called "day," come up with a new word for a day.

So God must have known that Adam and Eve would eat from the tree, right? Was it just some kind of test? Why put the tree there in the first place? Do those trees ever come up again? Also, does this assume all people have shame in being naked?

Your problem with the term "day" could be solved by looking at the original greek or hebrew. Many times those languages had multiple words where the english language only has one. There are many different terms for love in hebrew, but when it is translated throughout the Bible it just says love. I am not really sure if that is the case here, but it is a possibility.

God has the ability to know the future, but he may or may not choose to know. The tree was put there because the human race was created with free will and without choices being presented there is no free will. God didn't want to create robots that had no choice but to worship Him because that kind of worship is void of meaning.

 

[J-Rod]

I enjoyed it. I'm sure even a lot of Atheist gaf probably had to go to church as a kid like me, and although they read/teach from it there, I never put it all together because they jump around a lot. Reading the whole thing gave me a better understanding of the sequence of events and why the books are arranged how they are instead of when they were written.

 

[mu cephei]

It's not that hard.

So much for me making excuses... I just got it from Project Gutenberg.

 

[Trurl]

Assuming I remember to keep up, I'll be reading the KJV.





It's like night and day. Which, you'll recall, together make up one day or whatever.

Seriously, that New Living thing is like reading the weeaboo Chrono Trigger translation from back when.

I'm reading the most recent edition from Oxford. The language might not be as beautiful and certainly not as influential as the KJV, but it does nicely in my opinion:

In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.​

I'm not going to type it out, but the writing in Gen 7:11-24 was especially great. We're going at a snail's pace so I might reread in my KJV what I've read in the Oxford edition every so often, but for now I like that I'm getting the best understanding of what the books of the bible might have meant for the people who actually produced them.

 

[SRG01]

This is the case as far as I know, but it's kind of selective since certain stories are preached as-is as a "see how GREAT God is" sort of thing. I guess it depends on your church and denomination though. Stuff like Noah, Moses, Jonah, the three guys that were thrown into the fire, etc were all taught to me as if they were literal at every church I ever went to.

To be honest though, Christianity would be completely indefensible (more so than it already is, I guess) if the entire OT was taken literally.

My Catholic theologian friend explained it like this: the Old Testament informs the New, in that many things would be out of context, ie. Jesus' audience, the old covenant, etc.

 

[MTE]

Even Genesis 1, which I'm not sure I've ever read, is odd. I know this is some sort of newer translation, but the way they talk about the flora and fauna, it's... self-referential. "Let the earth bring forth every kind of animal -- livestock, small animals, and wildlife." As if God was drawing from an established spectrum of animal life to populate the earth. Just an odd way to put it.

And yeah... This also implies that Adam and Eve weren't the first people, just special. There you go...

 

[sphagnum]

Doing the Apocrypha as well in this?

 

[Cyan]

Doing the Apocrypha as well in this?

Here's the full list:
Jan 1: Gen 1-3
Jan 2: Gen 4-7
Jan 3: Gen 8-11
Jan 4: Gen 12-15
Jan 5: Gen 16-18
Jan 6: Gen 19-21
Jan 7: Gen 22-24
Jan 8: Gen 25-26
Jan 9: Gen 27-29
Jan 10: Gen 30-31
Jan 11: Gen 32-34
Jan 12: Gen 35-37
Jan 13: Gen 38-40
Jan 14: Gen 41-42
Jan 15: Gen 43-45
Jan 16: Gen 46-47
Jan 17: Gen 48-50
Jan 18: Ex 1-3
Jan 19: Ex 4-6
Jan 20: Ex 7-9
Jan 21: Ex 10-12
Jan 22: Ex 13-15
Jan 23: Ex 16-18
Jan 24: Ex 19-21
Jan 25: Ex 22-24
Jan 26: Ex 25-27
Jan 27: Ex 28-29
Jan 28: Ex 30-32
Jan 29: Ex 33-35
Jan 30: Ex 36-38
Jan 31: Ex 39-40
Feb 1: Lev 1-4
Feb 2: Lev 5-7
Feb 3: Lev 8-10
Feb 4: Lev 11-13
Feb 5: Lev 14-15
Feb 6: Lev 16-18
Feb 7: Lev 19-21
Feb 8: Lev 22-23
Feb 9: Lev 24-25
Feb 10: Lev 26-27
Feb 11: Num 1-2
Feb 12: Num 3-4
Feb 13: Num 5-6
Feb 14: Num 7
Feb 15: Num 8-10
Feb 16: Num 11-13
Feb 17: Num 14-15
Feb 18: Num 16-17
Feb 19: Num 18-20
Feb 20: Num 21-22
Feb 21: Num 23-25
Feb 22: Num 26-27
Feb 23: Num 28-30
Feb 24: Num 31-32
Feb 25: Num 33-34
Feb 26: Num 35-36
Feb 27: Deut 1-2
Feb 28/29: Deut 3-4
Mar 1: Deut 5-7
Mar 2: Deut 8-10
Mar 3: Deut 11-13
Mar 4: Deut 14-16
Mar 5: Deut 17-20
Mar 6: Deut 21-23
Mar 7: Deut 24-27
Mar 8: Deut 28-29
Mar 9: Deut 30-31
Mar 10: Deut 32-34
Mar 11: Josh 1-4
Mar 12: Josh 5-8
Mar 13: Josh 9-11
Mar 14: Josh 12-15
Mar 15: Josh 16-18
Mar 16: Josh 19-21
Mar 17: Josh 22-24
Mar 18: Jud 1-2
Mar 19: Jud 3-5
Mar 20: Jud 6-7
Mar 21: Jud 8-9
Mar 22: Jud 10-12
Mar 23: Jud 13-15
Mar 24: Jud 16-18
Mar 25: Jud 19-21
Mar 26: Ruth
Mar 27: 1Sam 1-3
Mar 28: 1Sam 4-8
Mar 29: 1Sam 9-12
Mar 30: 1Sam 13-14
Mar 31: 1Sam 15-17
Apr 1: 1Sam 18-20
Apr 2: 1Sam 21-24
Apr 3: 1Sam 25-27
Apr 4: 1Sam 28-31
Apr 5: 2Sam 1-3
Apr 6: 2Sam 4-7
Apr 7: 2Sam 8-12
Apr 8: 2Sam 13-15
Apr 9: 2Sam 16-18
Apr 10: 2Sam 19-21
Apr 11: 2Sam 22-24
Apr 12: 1King 1-2
Apr 13: 1King 3-5
Apr 14: 1King 6-7
Apr 15: 1King 8-9
Apr 16: 1King 10-11
Apr 17: 1King 12-14
Apr 18: 1King 15-17
Apr 19: 1King 18-20
Apr 20: 1King 21-22
Apr 21: 2King 1-3
Apr 22: 2King 4-5
Apr 23: 2King 6-8
Apr 24: 2King 9-11
Apr 25: 2King 12-14
Apr 26: 2King 15-17
Apr 27: 2King 18-19
Apr 28: 2King 20-22
Apr 29: 2King 23-25
Apr 30: 1Chron 1-2
May 1: 1Chron 3-5
May 2: 1Chron 6
May 3: 1Chron 7-8
May 4: 1Chron 9-11
May 5: 1Chron 12-14
May 6: 1Chron 15-17
May 7: 1Chron 18-21
May 8: 1Chron 22-24
May 9: 1Chron 25-27
May 10: 1/2Chron 28-1
May 11: 2Chron 2-5
May 12: 2Chron 6-8
May 13: 2Chron 9-12
May 14: 2Chron 13-17
May 15: 2Chron 18-20
May 16: 2Chron 21-24
May 17: 2Chron 25-27
May 18: 2Chron 28-31
May 19: 2Chron 32-34
May 20: 2Chron 35-36
May 21: Ezra 1-3
May 22: Ezra 4-7
May 23: Ezra 8-10
May 24: Neh 1-3
May 25: Neh 4-6
May 26: Neh 7
May 27: Neh 8-9
May 28: Neh 10-11
May 29: Neh 12-13
May 30: Est 1-5
May 31: Est 6-10
Jun 1: Job 1-4
Jun 2: Job 5-7
Jun 3: Job 8-10
Jun 4: Job 11-13
Jun 5: Job 14-16
Jun 6: Job 17-20
Jun 7: Job 21-23
Jun 8: Job 24-28
Jun 9: Job 29-31
Jun 10: Job 32-34
Jun 11: Job 35-37
Jun 12: Job 38-39
Jun 13: Job 40-42
Jun 14: Ps 1-8
Jun 15: Ps 9-16
Jun 16: Ps 17-20
Jun 17: Ps 21-25
Jun 18: Ps 26-31
Jun 19: Ps 32-35
Jun 20: Ps 36-39
Jun 21: Ps 40-45
Jun 22: Ps 46-50
Jun 23: Ps 51-57
Jun 24: Ps 58-65
Jun 25: Ps 66-69
Jun 26: Ps 70-73
Jun 27: Ps 74-77
Jun 28: Ps 78-79
Jun 29: Ps 80-85
Jun 30: Ps 86-89
Jul 1: Ps 90-95
Jul 2: Ps 96-102
Jul 3: Ps 103-105
Jul 4: Ps 106-107
Jul 5: Ps 108-114
Jul 6: Ps 115-118
Jul 7: Ps 119:1-88
Jul 8: Ps 119:89-176
Jul 9: Ps 120-132
Jul 10: Ps 133-139
Jul 11: Ps 140-145
Jul 12: Ps 146-150
Jul 13: Prov 1-3
Jul 14: Prov 4-6
Jul 15: Prov 7-9
Jul 16: Prov 10-12
Jul 17: Prov 13-15
Jul 18: Prov 16-18
Jul 19: Prov 19-21
Jul 20: Prov 22-23
Jul 21: Prov 24-26
Jul 22: Prov 27-29
Jul 23: Prov 30-31
Jul 24: Ecc 1-4
Jul 25: Ecc 5-8
Jul 26: Ecc 9-12
Jul 27: Solomon
Jul 28: Is 1-4
Jul 29: Is 5-8
Jul 30: Is 9-12
Jul 31: Is 13-17
Aug 1: Is 18-22
Aug 2: Is 23-27
Aug 3: Is 28-30
Aug 4: Is 31-35
Aug 5: Is 36-41
Aug 6: Is 42-44
Aug 7: Is 45-48
Aug 8: Is 49-53
Aug 9: Is 54-58
Aug 10: Is 59-63
Aug 11: Is 64-66
Aug 12: Jer 1-3
Aug 13: Jer 4-6
Aug 14: Jer 7-9
Aug 15: Jer 10-13
Aug 16: Jer 14-17
Aug 17: Jer 18-22
Aug 18: Jer 23-25
Aug 19: Jer 26-29
Aug 20: Jer 30-31
Aug 21: Jer 32-34
Aug 22: Jer 35-37
Aug 23: Jer 38-41
Aug 24: Jer 42-45
Aug 25: Jer 46-48
Aug 26: Jer 49-50
Aug 27: Jer 51-52
Aug 28: Lam 1-3:36
Aug 29: Lam 3:37-5
Aug 30: Ezek 1-4
Aug 31: Ezek 5-8
Sep 1: Ezek 9-12
Sep 2: Ezek 13-15
Sep 3: Ezek 16-17
Sep 4: Ezek 18-20
Sep 5: Ezek 21-22
Sep 6: Ezek 23-24
Sep 7: Ezek 25-27
Sep 8: Ezek 28-30
Sep 9: Ezek 31-33
Sep 10: Ezek 34-36
Sep 11: Ezek 37-39
Sep 12: Ezek 40-42
Sep 13: Ezek 43-45
Sep 14: Ezek 46-48
Sep 15: Dan 1-3
Sep 16: Dan 4-6
Sep 17: Dan 7-9
Sep 18: Dan 10-12
Sep 19: Hos 1-7
Sep 20: Hos 8-14
Sep 21: Joel
Sep 22: Amos 1-5
Sep 23: Amos 6-9
Sep 24: Oba-Jonah
Sep 25: Micah
Sep 26: Nahum
Sep 27: Hab-Zeph
Sep 28: Haggai
Sep 29: Zech 1-7
Sep 30: Zech 8-14
Oct 1: Malachi
Oct 2: Matt 1-4
Oct 3: Matt 5-6
Oct 4: Matt 7-8
Oct 5: Matt 9-10
Oct 6: Matt 11-12
Oct 7: Matt 13-14
Oct 8: Matt 15-17
Oct 9: Matt 18-19
Oct 10: Matt 20-21
Oct 11: Matt 22-23
Oct 12: Matt 24-25
Oct 13: Matt 26
Oct 14: Matt 27-28
Oct 15: Mark 1-3
Oct 16: Mark 4-5
Oct 17: Mark 6-7
Oct 18: Mark 8-9
Oct 19: Mark 10-11
Oct 20: Mark 12-13
Oct 21: Mark 14
Oct 22: Mark 15-16
Oct 23: Luke 1
Oct 24: Luke 2-3
Oct 25: Luke 4-5
Oct 26: Luke 6-7
Oct 27: Luke 8-9
Oct 28: Luke 10-11
Oct 29: Luke 12-13
Oct 30: Luke 14-16
Oct 31: Luke 17-18
Nov 1: Luke 19-20
Nov 2: Luke 21-22
Nov 3: Luke 23-24
Nov 4: John 1-2
Nov 5: John 3-4
Nov 6: John 5-6
Nov 7: John 7-8
Nov 8: John 9-10
Nov 9: John 11-12
Nov 10: John 13-15
Nov 11: John 16-18
Nov 12: John 19-21
Nov 13: Acts 1-3
Nov 14: Acts 4-6
Nov 15: Acts 7-8
Nov 16: Acts 9-10
Nov 17: Acts 11-13
Nov 18: Acts 14-15
Nov 19: Acts 16-17
Nov 20: Acts 18-20
Nov 21: Acts 21-23
Nov 22: Acts 24-26
Nov 23: Acts 27-28
Nov 24: Rom 1-3
Nov 25: Rom 4-7
Nov 26: Rom 8-10
Nov 27: Rom 11-13
Nov 28: Rom 14-16
Nov 29: 1Cor 1-4
Nov 30: 1Cor 5-8
Dec 1: 1Cor 9-11
Dec 2: 1Cor 12-14
Dec 3: 1Cor 15-16
Dec 4: 2Cor 1-4
Dec 5: 2Cor 5-9
Dec 6: 2Cor 10-13
Dec 7: Gal 1-3
Dec 8: Gal 4-6
Dec 9: Eph 1-3
Dec 10: Eph 4-6
Dec 11: Philippians
Dec 12: Colossians
Dec 13: 1Thess
Dec 14: 2Thess
Dec 15: 1Timothy
Dec 16: 2Timothy
Dec 17: Titus-Philemon
Dec 18: Heb 1-6
Dec 19: Heb 7-10
Dec 20: Heb 11-13
Dec 21: James
Dec 22: 1Peter
Dec 23: 2Peter
Dec 24: 1John
Dec 25: 2John-Jude
Dec 26: Rev 1-3
Dec 27: Rev 4-8
Dec 28: Rev 9-12
Dec 29: Rev 13-16
Dec 30: Rev 17-19
Dec 31: Rev 20-22

 

[speculawyer]

It is a hard read because it is quite boring at parts. Just skip some of the stuff . . . like genealogies.

 

[Christine]

Peek ahead to Titus 3:9, the instructions there will save you a great deal of frustration in most of the earlier books.

 

[speculawyer]

It feels weird not to read this in the King James version, but it doesn't matter.

I might join in with this, if I can get my hands on a King James Bible. I'm an atheist and I've never read it, but it was a pain when trying to read Brothers Karamazov a while ago and not having a clue about all the references.

I'd recommend something other than KJV. I know the KJV has long been the classic version of the western world but it is a pretty hard to read clunky translation for modern people and it was based on some crappy manuscripts so it has things in it that are out-right wrong. It has some stuff that got thrown into the Bible by scribes during the middle-ages and are not in the oldest (most authentic) Greek manuscripts.

 

[sphagnum]

Here's the full list:

[snip]

Looks like that's a no then.

Hm, I'll have to find time to fit in the Apocrypha and some of the other non-canonical (or at least non-Catholic, non-Protestant) books.

 

[Xeke]

1 Now Adam slept with his wife, Eve, and she became pregnant. When the time came, she gave birth to Cain, and she said, "With the LORD's help, I have brought forth a man!" 2 Later she gave birth to a second son and named him Abel.When they grew up, Abel became a shepherd, while Cain was a farmer. 3 At harvesttime Cain brought to the LORD a gift of his farm produce, 4 while Abel brought several choice lambs from the best of his flock. The LORD accepted Abel and his offering, 5 but he did not accept Cain and his offering. This made Cain very angry and dejected. 6 "Why are you so angry?" the LORD asked him. "Why do you look so dejected? 7 You will be accepted if you respond in the right way. But if you refuse to respond correctly, then watch out! Sin is waiting to attack and destroy you, and you must subdue it." 8 Later Cain suggested to his brother, Abel, "Let's go out into the fields." And while they were there, Cain attacked and killed his brother. 9 Afterward the LORD asked Cain, "Where is your brother? Where is Abel?""I don't know!" Cain retorted. "Am I supposed to keep track of him wherever he goes?" 10 But the LORD said, "What have you done? Listen -- your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground! 11 You are hereby banished from the ground you have defiled with your brother's blood. 12 No longer will it yield abundant crops for you, no matter how hard you work! From now on you will be a homeless fugitive on the earth, constantly wandering from place to place." 13 Cain replied to the LORD, "My punishment is too great for me to bear! 14 You have banished me from my land and from your presence; you have made me a wandering fugitive. All who see me will try to kill me!" 15 The LORD replied, "They will not kill you, for I will give seven times your punishment to anyone who does." Then the LORD put a mark on Cain to warn anyone who might try to kill him. 16 So Cain left the LORD's presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. 17 Then Cain's wife became pregnant and gave birth to a son, and they named him Enoch. When Cain founded a city, he named it Enoch after his son. 18 Enoch was the father of Irad. Irad was the father of Mehujael. Mehujael was the father of Methushael. Methushael was the father of Lamech. 19 Lamech married two women -- Adah and Zillah. 20 Adah gave birth to a baby named Jabal. He became the first of the herdsmen who live in tents. 21 His brother's name was Jubal, the first musician -- the inventor of the harp and flute. 22 To Lamech's other wife, Zillah, was born Tubal-cain. He was the first to work with metal, forging instruments of bronze and iron. Tubal-cain had a sister named Naamah. 23 One day Lamech said to Adah and Zillah, "Listen to me, my wives. I have killed a youth who attacked and wounded me. 24 If anyone who kills Cain is to be punished seven times, anyone who takes revenge against me will be punished seventy-seven times!" 25 Adam slept with his wife again, and she gave birth to another son. She named him Seth, for she said, "God has granted me another son in place of Abel, the one Cain killed." 26 When Seth grew up, he had a son and named him Enosh. It was during his lifetime that people first began to worship the LORD.

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Genesis 4

1 Now Adam slept with his wife, Eve, and she became pregnant. When the time came, she gave birth to Cain, and she said, "With the LORD's help, I have brought forth a man!" 2 Later she gave birth to a second son and named him Abel.When they grew up, Abel became a shepherd, while Cain was a farmer. 3 At harvesttime Cain brought to the LORD a gift of his farm produce, 4 while Abel brought several choice lambs from the best of his flock. The LORD accepted Abel and his offering, 5 but he did not accept Cain and his offering. This made Cain very angry and dejected. 6 "Why are you so angry?" the LORD asked him. "Why do you look so dejected? 7 You will be accepted if you respond in the right way. But if you refuse to respond correctly, then watch out! Sin is waiting to attack and destroy you, and you must subdue it." 8 Later Cain suggested to his brother, Abel, "Let's go out into the fields." And while they were there, Cain attacked and killed his brother. 9 Afterward the LORD asked Cain, "Where is your brother? Where is Abel?""I don't know!" Cain retorted. "Am I supposed to keep track of him wherever he goes?" 10 But the LORD said, "What have you done? Listen -- your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground! 11 You are hereby banished from the ground you have defiled with your brother's blood. 12 No longer will it yield abundant crops for you, no matter how hard you work! From now on you will be a homeless fugitive on the earth, constantly wandering from place to place." 13 Cain replied to the LORD, "My punishment is too great for me to bear! 14 You have banished me from my land and from your presence; you have made me a wandering fugitive. All who see me will try to kill me!" 15 The LORD replied, "They will not kill you, for I will give seven times your punishment to anyone who does." Then the LORD put a mark on Cain to warn anyone who might try to kill him. 16 So Cain left the LORD's presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. 17 Then Cain's wife became pregnant and gave birth to a son, and they named him Enoch. When Cain founded a city, he named it Enoch after his son. 18 Enoch was the father of Irad. Irad was the father of Mehujael. Mehujael was the father of Methushael. Methushael was the father of Lamech. 19 Lamech married two women -- Adah and Zillah. 20 Adah gave birth to a baby named Jabal. He became the first of the herdsmen who live in tents. 21 His brother's name was Jubal, the first musician -- the inventor of the harp and flute. 22 To Lamech's other wife, Zillah, was born Tubal-cain. He was the first to work with metal, forging instruments of bronze and iron. Tubal-cain had a sister named Naamah. 23 One day Lamech said to Adah and Zillah, "Listen to me, my wives. I have killed a youth who attacked and wounded me. 24 If anyone who kills Cain is to be punished seven times, anyone who takes revenge against me will be punished seventy-seven times!" 25 Adam slept with his wife again, and she gave birth to another son. She named him Seth, for she said, "God has granted me another son in place of Abel, the one Cain killed." 26 When Seth grew up, he had a son and named him Enosh. It was during his lifetime that people first began to worship the LORD.
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Genesis 5

1 This is the history of the descendants of Adam. When God created people, he made them in the likeness of God. 2 He created them male and female, and he blessed them and called them "human." 3 When Adam was 130 years old, his son Seth was born, and Seth was the very image of his father. 4 After the birth of Seth, Adam lived another 800 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 5 He died at the age of 930. 6 When Seth was 105 years old, his son Enosh was born. 7 After the birth of Enosh, Seth lived another 807 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 8 He died at the age of 912. 9 When Enosh was 90 years old, his son Kenan was born. 10 After the birth of Kenan, Enosh lived another 815 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 11 He died at the age of 905. 12 When Kenan was 70 years old, his son Mahalalel was born. 13 After the birth of Mahalalel, Kenan lived another 840 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 14 He died at the age of 910. 15 When Mahalalel was 65 years old, his son Jared was born. 16 After the birth of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 17 He died at the age of 895. 18 When Jared was 162 years old, his son Enoch was born. 19 After the birth of Enoch, Jared lived another 800 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 20 He died at the age of 962. 21 When Enoch was 65 years old, his son Methuselah was born. 22 After the birth of Methuselah, Enoch lived another 300 years in close fellowship with God, and he had other sons and daughters. 23 Enoch lived 365 years in all. 24 He enjoyed a close relationship with God throughout his life. Then suddenly, he disappeared because God took him. 25 When Methuselah was 187 years old, his son Lamech was born. 26 After the birth of Lamech, Methuselah lived another 782 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 27 He died at the age of 969. 28 When Lamech was 182 years old, his son Noah was born. 29 Lamech named his son Noah, for he said, "He will bring us relief from the painful labor of farming this ground that the LORD has cursed." 30 After the birth of Noah, Lamech lived 595 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 31 He died at the age of 777. 32 By the time Noah was 500 years old, he had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth

1 When the human population began to grow rapidly on the earth, 2 the sons of God saw the beautiful women of the human race and took any they wanted as their wives. 3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not put up with humans for such a long time, for they are only mortal flesh. In the future, they will live no more than 120 years." 4 In those days, and even afterward, giants lived on the earth, for whenever the sons of God had intercourse with human women, they gave birth to children who became the heroes mentioned in legends of old. 5 Now the LORD observed the extent of the people's wickedness, and he saw that all their thoughts were consistently and totally evil. 6 So the LORD was sorry he had ever made them. It broke his heart. 7 And the LORD said, "I will completely wipe out this human race that I have created. Yes, and I will destroy all the animals and birds, too. I am sorry I ever made them." 8 But Noah found favor with the LORD. 9 This is the history of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, the only blameless man living on earth at the time. He consistently followed God's will and enjoyed a close relationship with him. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11 Now the earth had become corrupt in God's sight, and it was filled with violence. 12 God observed all this corruption in the world, and he saw violence and depravity everywhere. 13 So God said to Noah, "I have decided to destroy all living creatures, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Yes, I will wipe them all from the face of the earth! 14 "Make a boat from resinous wood and seal it with tar, inside and out. Then construct decks and stalls throughout its interior. 15 Make it 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. 16 Construct an opening all the way around the boat, 18 inches below the roof. Then put three decks inside the boat -- bottom, middle, and upper -- and put a door in the side. 17 "Look! I am about to cover the earth with a flood that will destroy every living thing. Everything on earth will die! 18 But I solemnly swear to keep you safe in the boat, with your wife and your sons and their wives. 19 Bring a pair of every kind of animal -- a male and a female -- into the boat with you to keep them alive during the flood. 20 Pairs of each kind of bird and each kind of animal, large and small alike, will come to you to be kept alive. 21 And remember, take enough food for your family and for all the animals." 22 So Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him.

1 Finally, the day came when the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I consider you alone to be righteous. 2 Take along seven pairs of each animal that I have approved for eating and for sacrifice, and take one pair of each of the others. 3 Then select seven pairs of every kind of bird. There must be a male and a female in each pair to ensure that every kind of living creature will survive the flood. 4 One week from today I will begin forty days and forty nights of rain. And I will wipe from the earth all the living things I have created." 5 So Noah did exactly as the LORD had commanded him. 6 He was 600 years old when the flood came, 7 and he went aboard the boat to escape -- he and his wife and his sons and their wives. 8 With them were all the various kinds of animals -- those approved for eating and sacrifice and those that were not -- along with all the birds and other small animals. 9 They came into the boat in pairs, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. 10 One week later, the flood came and covered the earth. 11 When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, the underground waters burst forth on the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky. 12 The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights. 13 But Noah had gone into the boat that very day with his wife and his sons -- Shem, Ham, and Japheth -- and their wives. 14 With them in the boat were pairs of every kind of breathing animal -- domestic and wild, large and small -- along with birds and flying insects of every kind. 15 Two by two they came into the boat, 16 male and female, just as God had commanded. Then the LORD shut them in. 17 For forty days the floods prevailed, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth. 18 As the waters rose higher and higher above the ground, the boat floated safely on the surface. 19 Finally, the water covered even the highest mountains on the earth, 20 standing more than twenty-two feet above the highest peaks. 21 All the living things on earth died -- birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all kinds of small animals, and all the people. 22 Everything died that breathed and lived on dry land. 23 Every living thing on the earth was wiped out -- people, animals both large and small, and birds. They were all destroyed, and only Noah was left alive, along with those who were with him in the boat. 24 And the water covered the earth for 150 days.

Day 2. Lots of lineage, Cain, Abel and Noah. I guess that God had no beef with fish.

 

[Timedog]

Fuck it, maybe I'll read through this turd. I read revelation every couple of years anyway. That book is actually awesome.

 

[Mr Cola]

question, is "earth" a word use to describe all planets/galaxies etc or is it just the earth we live on. Or is beginning open to interpretation, used to denote a period of time "during the period we call the beginning earth was made". Because we know earth by galactic standards is in fact not very old at all.

 

[Cyan]

question, is "earth" a word use to describe all planets/galaxies etc or is it just the earth we live on. Or is beginning open to interpretation, used to denote a period of time "during the period we call the beginning earth was made". Because we know earth by galactic standards is in fact not very old at all.

Easiest to think about it in terms of ancient cosmology. There's the Earth, there's the sky, and there's the sun going around it all.

 

[BocoDragon]

You ever read the Bible..... on weed?

 

[el retorno]

Just saw this, I'm down for this..

 

[el retorno]

One of the things that interests me the most about the opening of genesis is that there are two different creation stories for man

Genesis 1:25-27 says man was created after animals to lord over them and man and women were created at the same time

Gen 1:27 "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."

But Gen 2:18-22 says animals are after humans and were created so he not be lonley and that women was created from Adams rib.

Gen 2:22 Then God made a woman from the rib and brought her to Adam.