Do most of you Bible enthusiasts do this?
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I do, and I try to find something that I can relate to, not just reading any chapter & verse. God works in mysterious ways. Ask him to guide your eyes and fingers to what He wants you to know. Ask Him to speak to you through this devotion time. AND HE WILL...God Bless
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I wonder if you can get the bible in E-book format and then all the people can plug in their laptops and PDAs on the train and read it, thinking that all this stuff inside and outside of the train origionally came from God.... Yeh right!
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I prefer to read the KJV of The Bible.
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Listen, I'm a very devout, strong-faithed Christian (though not always very obedient), but I gotta tell you, bibles are JUST BOOKS WITH PAPER.  Sure, the paper is special and extra-thin, but recycling them won't send you to hell.  God doesn't want you to waste, and if they're sitting around not being used, they're going to waste.  Recycle them, God won't hate you for it.
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the complete Jewish bible  but I have most of those you mention\nking ?James I rarely look at,  NIV,  American standard,  My complete Jewish bible. American children's bible   since I was a child  one of the king James I received as a child.amplified bible and more. I do not use all ever day  but can cheek verses when I wish to
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Actually, you come very close!  I suggest an excellent book, "Idioms of the Bible", the author's name is beyond me for now.  It was created by  a Bible scholar who is very familiar with both modern and ancient Hebrew and Aramaic, and has done some wonderful research in various areas relating to the Bible and religion.
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Ha Ha, nice question.   It is interesting how we consider a lot actions done in biblical stories to be rational at the time, but if it was now we would consider these people lunatics.
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For the most part, yes. There are certain denominations that I'm aware of that "train" their Bible scholars to memorize scriptural passages in a particular sequence as their method of rebuttal in the event that certain, specific confrontations occur.\n\nSomething that is akin to "if" and "then" type of programming. "If" such and such is mentioned, "then" use the following verse... and on and on, ad infinitum. Naturally they are all primed to regurgitate certain verses and then tested [POP QUIZ!] to find out if they know their stuff before moving on to the next lessons...\n\nSo, yes.\n\nPeace be with you!
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I agree. The Bible has a lot of wisdom, a lot of true stories, a lot of symbolic stories, and errors.
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Perhaps not.  But is it okay to ram your personal interpretation (of that which you have learned as dogma) down the throats of others if you never listen to informed critism?\nIf you have never read the old testiment in Hebrew, how do you really know what is says?  If you do not know Aramaic or Greek, do you really have an informed opinion yourself?\nDo you know the exact reasoning made by the men who decided what should be included in the Holy Bible and what should be left out?  Do you know that all of them did not agree with all of the books included?\nA good computer program can be written to look up an answer (or several rated answers) in the text of the King James Version of the Bible for just about any question, but that does not make the program holy.\nJudgment of others based upon whether or not they interpret scriptures in the same manner as you do may be a sin and certainly has lead to the disruption of the Christian religion into smaller factions.\nNo, it is never okay to critize anything that has not been studied.  Sure people do it, but that does not make it okay.
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Not in the least.\n\nThe bible is a book of fiction just like any other novel, so it would not make the tiniest difference to me.
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The Bible is a good source
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yes I do. I think alot of people beat people over the head with the bible. I do not think thats what God intended the bible for that use. He gave us free will for a reason.
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Jehovah's Witnesses consider the Bible to be the only "holy book" of real interest to true worshippers such as themselves.\nhttp://www.watchtower.org/e/lmn/article_02.htm\n\nIt is true that Witnesses have made famous the "New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures", which they print and distribute. There are more than 130 million copies of this modern-language bible in print, in dozens of languages.\nhttp://watchtower.org/languages.htm\n\nThe entire text of NWT is freely available at the official website of Jehovah's Witnesses, and a personal printed copy can be requested at no charge:\nhttp://watchtower.org/bible/\nhttps://watch002.securesites.net/contact/submit.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/how_to_contact_us.htm\n\n\nJehovah's Witnesses certainly like NWT, but they are happy to use any translation which an interested person may prefer, and in fact Jehovah's Witnesses themselves distribute other translations besides NWT. Jehovah's Witnesses attach no particular infallibility or inspiration to NWT.\n\nIt seems signficant that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are the ones best known for their worldwide preaching work. Yet Jesus commanded that ALL who would call themselves "Christian" perform this public work:\n\n(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And, look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/library/pr/article_04.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/na/\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20020915/article_01.htm\nhttp://www.watchtower.org/e/20050715/article_02.htm
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I don't, but that sounds like a great idea.  Hmmm, one that I like, that comes to mind right now is 1 John 4: 7-19.  Another one I like that emphasises being non-judgemental, is the one about Jesus talking to Mary of Samaria? at the well, the woman with the 5 husbands... not sure where it is.  Good luck and God Bless
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You know, YOU take the Bible more literally than we ""Bible-thumpers"" do! You here, not us, seem to be claiming that every single verse in the Bible MUST be taken literally, and we believe that, yes, there really are verses that are meant only to be taken as allegory. Did Gd actually ""walk"" in the Garden of Eden? YOU seem to say that this, too, must be taken literally, and not us!\n\nSo, it is possible, FOR US, to ""Believe in"" the Bible without taking Every Single verse literally, although you seem to say this verse must be taken literally for us to believe in it....
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Personally, for me, I choose to. I know I could be wrong, and there are questions the Bible raises that contradict science, or what others deem as proof. I even accept the fact I could be 100% wrong in the way I believe, and live my life. I know that, and still I choose to believe. It is something I feel in my heart to be real, something I feel as if I have evidence of in my everyday life, and for me, that is my proof.\n\nJust personally though.