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I want to start reading the entire Bible (which Ive never done) :eek: However, I get bored on the parts that give the genealogies. Is it ok to skip these parts?
 
Skim through them quickly, but do not skip entirely. Chronicles is heavy on genealogy, but also contains passages that may have more meaning for you.
One way to read the Bible is to read three chapters a day plus 5 on Sunday. This will allow you to read from cover to cover in one year. Your daily commitment would be 15 minutes a day. This also means feeling less bogged down when you come to the genealogies than reading for longer periods of time.
I have a copy of the Christian Almanac. It has a one year reading schedule that basically includes 2 OT chapters per day plus 1 NT chapter.
 
follow the Church’s reading schedule which will include OT and NT and Gospels. They are posted in your Church’s bulletin for the week. The reading the Bible on the mass schedule will get you through it and also will make the liturgy of the word more meaningful. The week day readings follow in line with the Sunday liturgy. Likewise the readings from OT and NT are put together by the Church to learn from. This way you are not just reading the Bible from cover to cover and getting lost or bored in the parts that make less sense.
God Bless
 
robwar said:
follow the Church’s reading schedule which will include OT and NT and Gospels. They are posted in your Church’s bulletin for the week. The reading the Bible on the mass schedule will get you through it and also will make the liturgy of the word more meaningful. The week day readings follow in line with the Sunday liturgy. Likewise the readings from OT and NT are put together by the Church to learn from. This way you are not just reading the Bible from cover to cover and getting lost or bored in the parts that make less sense.
God Bless
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And you will read most of the Bible over a 3 year period.
 
scc11 said:
I want to start reading the entire Bible (which Ive never done) :eek: However, I get bored on the parts that give the genealogies. Is it ok to skip these parts?
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The geneologies are very important, but you won’t be able to grasp everything in one reading. Start with something that holds your interest and work up to reading the whole of Scripture. I continually read through the entire bible and begin again when I’ve finished. Every single time I’ve discovered something new and deeper. Reading through the entire bible helps to get the “big picture”, but I did’nt start of with that, I sarted off with reading the Gospels, Proverbs and Psamlm. I expect I’ll do reread the entire bible every year for the rest of my life.
 
I’d recommend starting with the NT. You can certainly skip the gospel genealogies for now but in any case you’ll find the NT to be, overall, easier reading, more familiar ground, more spiritually relevant, and the entire writings to be a more consistent and congruent whole, testifying about a single matter-the core of our faith- for an obvious purpose. The OT contains a wealth of wisdom about man and God in general and information pertinent to our faith, interspersed with some pretty boring and cumbersome stuff. I’d wait on it for now with the exception, perhaps, of the accounts of the creation and the Fall.
 
fhansen said:
I’d recommend starting with the NT. You can certainly skip the gospel genealogies for now but in any case you’ll find the NT to be, overall, easier reading, more familiar ground, more spiritually relevant, and the entire writings to be a more consistent and congruent whole, testifying about a single matter-the core of our faith- for an obvious purpose. The OT contains a wealth of wisdom about man and God in general and information pertinent to our faith, interspersed with some pretty boring and cumbersome stuff. I’d wait on it for now with the exception, perhaps, of the accounts of the creation and the Fall.
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Read the Old Testament in light of the New.
 
DebChris said:
Read the Old Testament in light of the New.
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Yes, that’s true. I think its really important for a believer to familiarize themselves well with the NT in any case. Reading the gospels, acts, and letters in a continuous lineal fashion, as we do with any other book, rather than hearing snippets exclusively as we do with the readings at Mass or in catechism classes, helps bring the story together for us as a whole better, IMO
 
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