How Many Times Have You Read The Bible Through ?

[Barb]

Like Elder E, I have not done a systematic read through in a few years, but have done so many times.

Re the subject of reading, it has always been my joy. I have told my nieces and nephews many times that if they can learn to read, the whole world is opened up to them.

I think it is so important to teach children, not only the joy of reading, but teach them the books of the Bible and how to find them.

This was instilled in me in Sunday School when I was a young'un and it has always stood me in good stead.

One more thing...I have a nephew with Asperger's and he was having a hard time reading. I bought my boy a Bible with his name on the front and he began taking it to church.

His mom said he would sit with his Bible opened and try to read. Well, one day last summer I was over to their house and Ethan read Genesis 1:1 to me.

He is now reading very well...not where he should be for a child his age, but reading nonetheless and loving it.

I am convinced it was the prayers, coupled with family support and the Bible...to God be the glory!!

[Scott Hutchinson]

Originally Posted by Barb

Like Elder E, I have not done a systematic read through in a few years, but have done so many times.

Re the subject of reading, it has always been my joy. I have told my nieces and nephews many times that if they can learn to read, the whole world is opened up to them.

I think it is so important to teach children, not only the joy of reading, but teach them the books of the Bible and how to find them.

This was instilled in me in Sunday School when I was a young'un and it has always stood me in good stead.

One more thing...I have a nephew with Asperger's and he was having a hard time reading. I bought my boy a Bible with his name on the front and he began taking it to church.

His mom said he would sit with his Bible opened and try to read. Well, one day last summer I was over to their house and Ethan read Genesis 1:1 to me.

He is now reading very well...not where he should be for a child his age, but reading nonetheless and loving it.

I am convinced it was the prayers, coupled with family support and the Bible...to God be the glory!!

This post touched my heart and made cry.
Everybody needs a aunt Barb.What a dear sweet Christian woman.

[Actaeon]

I'm still working on it...........

[AGAPE]

I've read the KJV through 6 times (I thinK)
the NIV once
currently reading through the ESV

I'm talking starting at Genesis and going to Revelation.

Now, I probable have read the Bible through many more times b/c I am "addicted" to reading. Once when I was 14 I sat down outside the house in the swing with my Bible and started reading the book of Isaiah. When I turned the page and saw Jeremiah I was amazed that I had read the whoel book.
You can read the whole Bible in 72 hours.
So if you read just 1 hour a day you can be through in 72 days (duh). So if you are consistant with it you could read it through 5 times a year easily like that.
I have listened to the NT twice (I think) this year on CD

[Esther]

I have only read the KJV through several times. Never have counted.

But I have not read it near enough!

[Pressing-On]

I stopped counting at 15 and I still don't know anything. LOL!

[Barb]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

I stopped counting at 15 and I still don't know anything. LOL!

Quite the contrary...you know, I miss those days of FCF when you would delve into the Greek and Hebrew and pull out such wonderful nuggets.

[Barb]

Originally Posted by Scott Hutchinson

This post touched my heart and made cry.
Everybody needs a aunt Barb.What a dear sweet Christian woman.

God bless you, sir...I love my babies...

[ForeverBlessed]

Originally Posted by Felicity

I love to hear these kind of personal stories.

I remember the day I realized I could read for myself and read my first real storybook. I can still see that book and the charcoal illustrations in my mind. . It was like a whole new world opened up to me!!

I got in trouble for lying to the teacher one day in 1st grade soon after I made this discovery. I was supposed to be doing arithmetic but was reading instead. She asked me if I'd done my arithmetic exercise and I said, "yes". She asked me to bring it to her and of course I had no choice but to show her an empty page.

She spanked me! I was so upset that a few minutes later when we went outdoors for recess I ran home and told my mother I was never going back to school again. LOL!

She marched me immediately back to school and made me apologize for not telling the truth. The teacher hugged me and all was well.

I was a huge avid voracious reader and read all the time. I just wish my parents had shown some interest in that and helped direct me in my reading. My mom never read to us. My dad read but I don't remember him ever doing a lot of reading with us. Maybe he did when I was too young to remember.

I walked to the local library all by myself at the age of 7 and got an application form so I could loan books out.

Felicity, one of the things I have grounded my daughter Elaine from is the Library and books. I have had teachers and people look at me like I am crazy....but disobedience is disobedience and I have had to drag the kid out of the library where I often find her nose buried in a book when she is supposed to be home cleaning her room or doing whatever else I've instructed her to do. She's been in trouble so many times for reading all night long... i've lost count. I understand because I did the same as a teen. I didn't have tv growing up, but still although they do have a TV, she would rather read.

As for bible reading... I couldn't keep my kids reading until I finally got them their own TNIV for Christmas... now they read most nights before going to bed. I think the last I checked one was in Numbers, the others in Deuteronomy.

[ForeverBlessed]

Originally Posted by AGAPE

I've read the KJV through 6 times (I thinK)
the NIV once
currently reading through the ESV

I'm talking starting at Genesis and going to Revelation.

Now, I probable have read the Bible through many more times b/c I am "addicted" to reading. Once when I was 14 I sat down outside the house in the swing with my Bible and started reading the book of Isaiah. When I turned the page and saw Jeremiah I was amazed that I had read the whoel book.
You can read the whole Bible in 72 hours.
So if you read just 1 hour a day you can be through in 72 days (duh). So if you are consistant with it you could read it through 5 times a year easily like that.
I have listened to the NT twice (I think) this year on CD

Not me.. I must be a slower reader then... no way an hour a day for 72 days.. I started on a mission to read it through late November after just jumping around from book to book before never really completing anything....

I started with the New Testament and I read some in the morning and again at night. The New Testament I loved and can’t wait to get back…well, ok, I cheat and read things like 1 and 2nd Corinthians the other night… I read Romans again.. Gal...maybe that’s my problem.

I’m only read straight through into Deuteronomy in the old testament… but I am not just reading though.. I look up the words I don’t understand or want clarification on. I have an old Hebrew/Greek study bible of my dad’s and I read all the commentary while I am going through. However, honestly, I just don’t find the old as interesting and have fallen asleep in Leviticus and Numbers. I’ve also read 1 and 2 Samuel, Isaiah, Psalms, Proverbs, Esther, Ruth, Job..but I was back in Deut last night. Gotta stay focused.

I don’t know why my parents never had me read it as a child/teen. I read all the time.. I always had my nose in a book and was constantly teased because my name was “Reading” and I was always reading.