Don’t you guys also have a prohibition on beef because of Hindus?They’re actually not that hard to follow here, where vegetarian food is the norm, pork is not easy to get (we’re 20% Muslim), prawns are expensive, all meat is “halal” (again, we’re 20% Muslim) and unleavened bread is a traditional food. I was just being facetious.
Interesting! Most modern KJV’s no longer contain the deuterocanonicles. You must own a old KJV unless there are a small number of KJV’s still being printed with the Apocrypha?
The facsimile reprints of the 1611 KJV have the Deuterocanonicals. I have one; they’re not expensive at all.
Yes. (In fact, beef is somewhat harder to get than pork.
) Some states have banned it altogether. It’s quite a sensitive issue under the current government; last year, a Muslim man was lynched by a mob for keeping beef in his house in one such state. 
But I digress.I have, Genesis to Revelation, it took about eight months, including the Deuterocanon. Nowadays, I just make sure I read at least a chapter a day (I am reading the Bible all the way through once more). Before, how much I read depended on how much I felt like. I have read the New Testament all the way three two or three times. I have willingly read Leviticus all the way through a few times. Go ahead and question my sanity. I do.
It must be hard being a religious minority. Getting caught in the middle of that I would imagine could be tough at times.Yes. (In fact, beef is somewhat harder to get than pork.
That’s my preferred version. My favourite Gospel is John’s, but I know a lot of folks hold Luke in high regard. I think someone else mention the Jerusalem Bible. That next.I haven’t. I’m working on completing the New Testament, though! I’m on the Gospel of St. Luke.
I’m fortunate to live in a part of the country that had a fairly positive experience with Catholic culture (it’s a former French colony) and is very tolerant as far as such things go.
Can’t say the same about things “up North” though (yes, there’s a North-South divide among us, too. 
)Well, I am praying for you and your country my brother in Christ.I’m fortunate to live in a part of the country that had a fairly positive experience with Catholic culture (it’s a former French colony) and is very tolerant as far as such things go.
Likewise, my brother.Well, I am praying for you and your country my brother in Christ.
Most people in New England (where I am) especially near Boston and throughout Connecticut and Rhode Island are Catholics. Many are lapsed though, so nobody knows anything about the Bible where I live! I use to live in Florida though. There is a mix of Catholics and Evangelicals down there and they seem to be mostly on good terms with the exception of the Fundamentalist.
I have actually done pro-life work with Evangelicals. We went to their church, but it was a Catholic priest that led the prayers. I really do love it when Catholics and Protestants find common ground. And that’s why it makes me kind of sad when many Catholics really don’t know the Bible.
That is because so many Catholic’s are lapsed or don’t take their faith seriously. They go to Mass, hear a few readings, take the Eucharist and they’re done for the day. They don’t take the time to investigate the faith. They don’t take the time to understand and study scripture. You often hear how Protestants know scripture better than Catholics, the funny thing is is that Catholics wrote the New Testament and put the Bible together. Catholic’s should know the Bible, and that is why there needs to be more programs for studying scripture and more encouragement to study scripture.
Thus the why this topic was posted, I suppose. I think when we get into debates with non-Catholics, that it is good for us to know the Bible. Not because knowing verses will win an argument, but because, according to Karl Keating in “Catholicism and Fundamentalism”, They may use the same words, but mean them in a different way. I am not saying Catholics should remember the Bible word for word, but I feel like it’s difficult to know God without actually knowing what he says. I know many people emphasise a relationship with God, and they are right. (Where they err is assuming that relationship is impossible without religion). But we Catholics, we have the Sacraments, the Church, the Bible. I have great respect for a Protestant that is serious about their beliefs, especially since so many Catholics are lukewarm about theirs. Anyway, just my :twocents:
Yes, and the thing about Protestants is that the only context they have for they beliefs about the Bible are from revolting theologians who lived 1500 years after Christ. As for Catholics, we have the Church Fathers. We have people from the very start of the Church, some of which knew the apostles. Protestantism can be refuted with a little Church history.
This is true. But, you can quote St. Ignatius of Antioch all day, but some people just won’t listen. Such as life.