I asked this question a few months ago and figure I’d ask every few months because it was great to see the large response and it was nice to get book recommendations to add to my ever expanding pile to read. The book I most recently finished was The Cat Who Walked Through Walls by Heinlein and I’m currently reading The Strong Shall Live which is a series of short stories by Louis L’Amour. I have found a ton of his books at yard sales and they are usually sold for a quarter or 50 cents a piece so I have quite a few and this is the first one I’m reading. Also found the book Lonesome Dove along with L’Amour’s stuff. Anyway, what are yall reading?
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First time reading or you never read it all the way through? I’ve read the Bible but out of order and try to read some daily along with church.
I never went to church growing up and ignored religion for most of my life. It's the first time I'm reading any of it. I'm going from front to back using the NASB Protestant translation.
It has been difficult. It's very up and down in terms of entertainment while reading. Some parts actually do make you want to skip forward while other parts seem more like a technical historical account that's really dry. Genesis and Exodus have been my favorite.
So far the Bible just seems like God doing stuff for his people and then his people not listening, then God punishing them and trying it all over again with a new generation.
Yeah. That’s pretty much the story of salvation history: God does stuff for humanity, people don’t listen, God punishes them, wash rinse repeat.
Definitely contains elements of that. Feel free to message me if you have any biblically based questions. I’m no theologian but I’ll give it my best answer. I grew up going to church. There have been times is stoped going but that was due to being lazy, not because I stopped believing
I actually own a Greek Orthodox study Bible with annotations and interpretations. I also have the original Douey-Rheims translation with annotations and interpretations.
I really want to read through the bible myself without being plagued by anyone's idea of what the bible is trying to say so I can come to my own genuine view and then I'll start to dabble into what others think.
Gotcha. I have the King James and my Bible in Spanish is from the Middle Ages