Also, reading philosophy books OUTSIDE the Bible is important. Because a lot of people read the Bible and just don't get it. None of it makes sense. It's because it's for people seeking answers AFTER they've already asked the hard questions.
Personally speaking, the Bible made a lot more sense after reading through
Aristotle
Plato
Epictetus
Thomas Paine
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oscar Wilde
Thomas Henry Huxley
Arthur Schopenhauer
Rene Descartes
David Hume
Immanuel Kant
Jean-Paul Sartre
Friedrich Nietzsche
Søren Kierkegaard
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Having a basic understanding of what sort of questions and philosophical hurdles they faced, as well as how they arrived at their own understanding of things, it helps preface what you'll eventually encounter with the Bible. Because one thing I've always told people over the years who say that they don't get philosophy is that they should start with the Greek philosophers, work through the English, French and then German philosophers, and then finally finish with the Bible.
The reason for that is because what I learned is that you'll have all your questions posed reading through each of the works of the classic philosophers first, but you'll get almost all of your answers reading through the Bible last.
Also, reading philosophy books OUTSIDE the Bible is important. Because a lot of people read the Bible and just don't get it. None of it makes sense. It's because it's for people seeking answers AFTER they've already asked the hard questions.
Personally speaking, the Bible made a lot more sense after reading through
Having a basic understanding of what sort of questions and philosophical hurdles they faced, as well as how they arrived at their own understanding of things, it helps preface what you'll eventually encounter with the Bible. Because one thing I've always told people over the years who say that they don't get philosophy is that they should start with the Greek philosophers, work through the English, French and then German philosophers, and then finally finish with the Bible.
The reason for that is because what I learned is that you'll have all your questions posed reading through each of the works of the classic philosophers first, but you'll get almost all of your answers reading through the Bible last.