What are you reading in the Bible at the moment?

[farouk]

So what are you reading in the Bible at the moment?

My wife and I are reading in Hebrews.

Such an amazing Epistle, showing that in Christ everything is "better" - a key word - than anything that went before in the Old Testament or ever could be.

 

[farouk]

@Angelina ; @Josho FYI....

 

[Josho]

Isaiah, just read the part where the seraphim touched his lips with coal last night.

 

[Josho]

Prophecy I guess I could say is the gift I have desired for a while, there is just something about prophecy I really like, whether they be a minor or major prophet or Jesus.

 

[farouk]

Isaiah, just read the part where the seraphim touched his lips with coal last night.

Such a lot in Isaiah, the Messianic passages about the Suffering Servant; the pilgrim pathway of the believer: "I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction" (Isaiah 48.10).

 

[DNB]

So what are you reading in the Bible at the moment?

My wife and I are reading in Hebrews.

Such an amazing Epistle, showing that in Christ everything is "better" - a key word - than anything that went before in the Old Testament or ever could be.

I recently began reading my NIV chronological Bible. A highly recommend it as an alternate resource for Bible studies. I say alternate, as I believe we all should use various versions throughout our Christian life, for not one single translation is perfect, they all serve different purposes.
With the Chronological Bible, you become aware of the differences between the Synoptics, reading them side by side, and in historical order. Same with Acts and the Epistles, you get a better sense of who Paul is addressing, and why, by reading his Epistle as he travels through the related cities in Acts.
I just finished the Gospels, will be starting Acts/Epistles in my next session.

 

[farouk]

I recently began reading my NIV chronological Bible. A highly recommend it as an alternate resource for Bible studies. I say alternate, as I believe we all should use various versions throughout our Christian life, for not one single translation is perfect, they all serve different purposes.
With the Chronological Bible, you become aware of the differences between the Synoptics, reading them side by side, and in historical order. Same with Acts and the Epistles, you get a better sense of who Paul is addressing, and why, by reading his Epistle as he travels through the related cities in Acts.
I just finished the Gospels, will be starting Acts/Epistles in my next session.

I do very much like the KJV myself. I find the Thomson Chain Reference Bible to have a lot of useful material, although its print is rather small, which for some of us is increasingly a problem.

 

[DNB]

I do very much like the KJV myself. I find the Thomson Chain Reference Bible to have a lot of useful material, although its print is rather small, which for some of us is increasingly a problem.

What, you still read from paper back? Never! I have all my books on my tablet and phone. They are with me all the time (even while waiting for a bus), literally hundreds in a small portable device. I can bookmark them, change the font, they don't fade or tear, easy to cross-reference, etc...

 

[farouk]

What, you still read from paper back? Never! I have all my books on my tablet and phone. They are with me all the time (just waiting for a bus), literally hundreds in a small portable device. I can bookmark them, change the font, they don't fade or tear, easy to cross-reference, etc...

I find the small buttons on electronic hand held devices hard to use. They are common in Canada but in some ways I find Canada a rather illusory place with its widespread assumptions about technology and the nature of things.

 

[DNB]

I find the small buttons on electronic hand held devices hard to use. They are common in Canada but in some ways I find Canada a rather illusory place with its widespread assumptions about technology and the nature of things.

Sure, if the technology is based on pretension. But, if not, they are extremely practical. Like I said, just the fact that i have my books with me all the time, and so many to chose from at any given moment, means I read a lot more now. Even just consider all the Bible Software out there, those who used to be the laity, are practically self-taught scholars now, just for that reason i.e. technology.

 

[quietthinker]

So what are you reading in the Bible at the moment?

My wife and I are reading in Hebrews.

Such an amazing Epistle, showing that in Christ everything is "better" - a key word - than anything that went before in the Old Testament or ever could be.

Read it well farouk and understand the the unfolding of the types explained.

 

[farouk]

So what else are ppl reading from the Word?

My wife and I are now in James's Epistle.

 

[Rita]

I am reading a book called ‘ Jesus in the Old Testament ‘ - and it is just so interesting and giving me a whole new prospective ....I have never viewed the creation story as being a picture or redemption, I never really thought about Grace , redemption and salvation as coming before the law was given, about how the gospel was given to Moses and Abraham ......... it’s just little things that I have not noticed before.
So I am working through Genesis and Exodus at the moment.
Rita

 

[farouk]

I am reading a book called ‘ Jesus in the Old Testament ‘ - and it is just so interesting and giving me a whole new prospective ....I have never viewed the creation story as being a picture or redemption, I never really thought about Grace , redemption and salvation as coming before the law was given, about how the gospel was given to Moses and Abraham ......... it’s just little things that I have not noticed before.
So I am working through Genesis and Exodus at the moment.
Rita

@Rita Interesting; it's wonderful to think that back in the Garden the seed of the woman was promised, which would crush the serpent's head. It's a healthy exercise to trace back all the Messianic references in the Old Testament; and indeed the promise to Abraham was given before circumcision was established, which preaches well about justification by faith.

So who wrote the book?

 

[Prayer Warrior]

I am reading a book called ‘ Jesus in the Old Testament ‘ - and it is just so interesting and giving me a whole new prospective ....I have never viewed the creation story as being a picture or redemption, I never really thought about Grace , redemption and salvation as coming before the law was given, about how the gospel was given to Moses and Abraham ......... it’s just little things that I have not noticed before.
So I am working through Genesis and Exodus at the moment.
Rita

Sounds interesting!

 

[Rita]

David Miller is the author Farouk x

 

[farouk]

David Miller is the author Farouk x

Thanks, @Rita