/lit/ - Literature

>>12264615
Read the Wisdom books and the Gospels first, and then the Prophet and Apocalyptic books, and then the rest, and then reread it all linearly.

>He's reading the bible instead of getting footjobs from instagram models in Dubai

>>12264615
>strong Catalogue of Ships vibes
>middle of reading Genesis right now
You haven't even begun to experience the full extent of the Bible's lists. Oh, to be young and pure and again.

>>12264684
He'll love Numbers lol

>>12264615
>I'm already getting strong Catalogue of Ships vibes.
kek.

Read one of the Gospels first, and then Acts.
The OT divinely inspiried preparation for Jesus.

>>12264615

Read the first chapters of Genesis first (you can go back to Genesis after)
Read Ecclesiastes
Read the Gospels
Read Job
Read Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Daniel, read the chapters related to Jesus Christ, seek guidance on internet for this or search for those paragraphs

Use this in the background while reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W4PJUOeVYw

after that, read as you wish, maybe complete the phophet books and Deuteronomy and Exodus can provide some background on why Christ is the messiah

>>12264615
front to back

>>12265024
I havent read it but I feel this is the only way to read it. The Bible is not supposed to fun.

I'm just reading it cover to cover. Currently at 2nd Samuel.

>>12264615

Read it from front to back, but skip whatever you need to skip. It a certain part doesn't speak to you there's no need to force yourself through it.

Also, get a good study Bible with annotations and essays and shit.

>>12264615
Start with the Gospels

>>12265056
The Bible is also not a single book, you don't have to read it in order

>>12265196
Okay do you have a box set or something?

>>12265056

You are wrong, the bible isn't just a intellectually engaging book, it's completely subjective driven, so read it in the way it can make yourself more emotionally driven as possible while engaging your reason as well

Since christ is the most emotionally engaging arc of all the bible if you understand where judaism comes from, the gospels are a good starting point if you know some stuff about judaism, if you start thinking about christ as God and you realize his story arc as the messiah compared to the image that the jews had as the real messiah should be, it's intense as fuck and it makes all of the OT shine, at that point you either believe jesus was made up because of how perfect it becomes symbolically speaking or you just believe he is God

>>12265056
>I havent read it but I feel this is the only way to read it
Can we make this a banner?

>>12264615
Read it so you can tell everyone on here and get a pat on the back.

I mean.....it will change your life.

>>12264615
Why read it of its boring

>>12265219
Yes

>>12266433
I like this Christchan

Start with the greeks

if you struggle with genesis, give up or you might as well skip 70% of it. It is one of the best books of the bible in my opinion, extremely interesting and well written. So is the first half of exodus, after that you are in for endless lists.

There is no single way to read the Bible. People who insist on reading it "front to back" genuinely don't understand what they're talking about. The Bible contains books that were written over a span of hundreds of years and have been ordered differently over their history. Compare a Protestant and a Catholic Bible, the latter has more books. Check an Eastern Orthodox Bible, some books are in a different order. Check a Jewish Bible, the book order is even more different. Read it all to be sure, but there is no particular reason to read the order(s) that modern printed Bibles have. What I started with was a narrative read through, Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, then Joshua to Nehemiah, then the gospels and Acts. I adapted it into a more strictly narrative reading plan that avoids legal passages and repetition, but it's only a suggestion:

Genesis (skip: 5, 10, 36)
Exodus 1-24, 32-35, 40
Numbers 10-36
Deuteronomy 34
Joshua 1-13, 22-24
Judges
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings (skip: 7)
2 Kings
Daniel 1-6
Ezra
Nehemiah
1 Maccabees
Luke
Acts

That's not to say the legal stuff isn't interesting in its own right (I found Leviticus fascinating) but it might be tedious if you don't have contextual knowledge first.

with hebrew titles for all the characters
like elohim (gods) for the angels
or ʾĒl ʿElyōn
yahweh for yahweh