/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13530012]

What is the best order to read the bible in? Please discuss.

[Anonymous No.13530031]

>>13530012
Start with Genesis, stop once you reach Revelation.

[Anonymous No.13530045]

>>13530031
t. larper who has never read the bible or athiest

[Anonymous No.13530107]

>>13530012
Start with the Gospel according to St John.

[Anonymous No.13530134]

>>13530031
Dont do this OP. Start with the New Testament, then old.

[Anonymous No.13530136]

>>13530045
Not him but that’s how I first read the Bible, of course I’d been raised Christian my whole life and already knew the gists of a lot of it going in. I can see how reading Leviticus/Numbers/Deuteronomy might be really taxing
Here’s my number one alternate order: New Testament Matthew-Jude, Old Testament, Revelation
Other than that, you’re gonna have to get through the dry sections eventually, why delay the inevitable?

[Anonymous No.13530141]

>>13530012
Read it in order a few times then start picking and choosing where to read at random

[Anonymous No.13530175]

I would say read the Pentateuch, Job, the Gospel's, all the Pauline books, and Revelation. Only read other books if they specifically interest you.

[Anonymous No.13530198]

If you start with the "wrong" book it could give you the "wrong" impression.

Speaking for me & only me, Genesis was the biggest most boring pain in the ass book to read. And I thought the entire Bible was going to be like that.

[Anonymous No.13531066]

>>13530134
This

[Anonymous No.13531284]

>>13530012
Read at any point:
Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Psalms.
Read and re-read them until You litteraly can put quotes from them in conversation without looking like an ass.

Then You read the Genealogies and the Mosaic Laws: They're for reference and they'll be usefull soon.

Now You read some book of exegesis and some commentaries.

Then You go chronologically in the OT: you now have the means to connect things that don't seem to make sense at first glance.

Now You retard the prophets and You're ready fooooorrrr

The new testament.
You can read that in the order You wish.

[Anonymous No.13532606]

read tolstois new testament, then the old testament, stop to read dante, mill, melville, continue to new testament, return to read all old testament and new testament as you wish jumping around.

[Anonymous No.13532637]

>>13530175
>skipping all the Wisdom books
>skipping most of the Prophet books
That's where you're wrong, kid

[Anonymous No.13532658]

>>13530012
Anyone who doesn’t say
>put it in God’s hands
is a shill. When in faith and within the Mind of God, open the book to the exact spot you need to learn from.

[Anonymous No.13532779]

>>13530134
You can't read Revelation without reading the prophets.

[Anonymous No.13532785]

Also, read Josephus's Antiquities and other works.

[Anonymous No.13532797]

>>13532658
God doesn't care the order You read the Bible in You degenerate democrat protestant shill

[Anonymous No.13532803]

>>13530012
>>13530045
>>13530136
read the new testament from beginning to the end, you can focus on old testament later

[Anonymous No.13532811]

>>13532803
>reading Revelation before prophets
>reading Matthew before prophets

[Anonymous No.13532855]

>>13532637
You don't need them. I at least concede the Wisdom books aren't interesting, but they're certainly not essential to get the gist of what goes on in the Bible. I mean shit, if I were recommending what I myself enjoyed I'd recommend the historical books too but you certainly don't need to read them. You really don't need Job either but I think it's one of the best books so I threw it in.

[Anonymous No.13532859]

>>13532855
Fuck I am retard. I meant to say the wisdom books are interesting. Not aren't.

[Anonymous No.13532868]

>>13532811
for someone not familliar with christianity its better if he reads the new testament and gets the idea of it first
i grew up in it all so i undertand it but if someone new wants to understand the bible its best that way

[Anonymous No.13533051]

>>13532797
where did he say God cares about what order you read the bible? kys brainlet

[Anonymous No.13533325]

What the fuck is wrong with reading it in the order it's printed in??

[Anonymous No.13534612]

>>13533325
The average reader will get bogged down at the middle of Exodus and give up, for the same reason that they wouldn’t want to read the US criminal code or an architectural blueprint.

Personally, I recommend reading several parts of the Bible simultaneously:
>Pentateuch
>History
>Poetic/Wisdom literature
>Prophets
>New Testament

A chapter a day from each of these will give an excellent overview of the whole. I also strongly recommend an annotated study Bible such as the Ignatius Didache Bible or the Ignatius New Testament Study Bible. I don’t know the names of the various Protestant study Bibles but I’m sure there are some good ones.

[Anonymous No.13534616]

Start with the Sumerians.

[Anonymous No.13534726]

OT is pleb filter

[Anonymous No.13535446]

Best order for some Apocrypha?

[Anonymous No.13536496]

The Gospel of John
The Gospel of Mark
I John
II John
III John
Genesis
Ephesians
Galatians
The Gospel of Luke
The Gospel of Matthew
I Corinthians
II Corinthians
Romans
Psalms
Proverbs

[Anonymous No.13536674]

>>13530012
Read pic related afterwards

[Anonymous No.13536711]

>>13530031
I tried reading the bible from the start years ago, most disappointing boring shit ever
Let me sum up what i remember
"In the year something something, jacob, who lived for 500 years, maries rebecca, the sister of moshe, son of isaac. They have ten sons, david, david, david, david, moshe, and then another bunch of little kikes. Then david marries esther, daughter of david, himself great uncle of isaac. Their 600yo son jacob of jew-town marries his 5th degree cousin rebecca, sister of isaiah and abraham and david. Then they have a son called joshuah, who lived for 200 years, and who married rebecca, great grand daughter of the niece of the brother of the son of david. Their daughter esther, who lived an unrealistic amount of time too, also married another guy called joshuah, himself son of david, great grand son of rebecca and brother of david, and ..."
yeah no fuck this shit lmao i dropped the book, what am i even fucking reading, the bronze age who's who ? fucking awful, unreadable shit
i know i'll get called names for this post but i don't care, it's all true

[Anonymous No.13536727]

>>13530012