Have you actually read the Bible ?

[gumbo]

I would like to see who , Please ! And what version

 

[Bogart]

I started it once but lost interest - too preachy.

 

[BuddyLee]

Two years ago I read the first 30 pages or so. It seemed interesting and I plan on reading it when I have a bulk of time available.

 

[HollowSoul]

yup....cover to cover (catholic school)
but the movie was better

 

[vraiblonde]

but the movie was better

Yep - cover to cover a couple of times. The Bible is a good read, especially the OT.

 

[Peter Gibbons]

yup....cover to cover (catholic school)
but the movie was better

I could never picture you in a Catholic School Uniform. That's like Kirk Cobane singing Smells like Teen Spirit in tight gym shorts. I do agree that the movie was much better.

 

[Triggerfish]

A Southern Baptist school in Florida. Old King James version.

 

[HollowSoul]

I could never picture you in a Catholic School Uniform. That's like Kirk Cobane singing Smells like Teen Spirit in tight gym shorts. I do agree that the movie was much better.

well..........if you think that is a funny sight, imagine me as an alter boy....(6yrs) and NO.....i was never molested

 

[watercolor]

Havent read it "completely" yet, but I am reading an NIV version.

 

[Agee]

Through the years, eventually, ...Cover to Cover

from different versions!

 

[2ndAmendment]

Cover to cover several times in a different version each time including Living Bible, New American Standard Bible, and some others. Reading the New King James Bible now.

 

[ladybug2004]

Yes, once cover to cover, Old Testament

 

[Mikeinsmd]

You left off a choice. No. :shrug:

 

[John Z]

Cover to cover in 1985, NIV.

 

[willie]

All my schooling was Catholic and I never remember anything about the Bible, just catechism.

 

[ocean733]

Catholic school from kindergarten through High School. I'm sure I have read the entire Bible over those years. Never sat with it like it was a John Grisham novel, though.

 

[Penn]

Read the King James Version a long time ago, then the entire New Living Translation and NIV Bibles in the last few years.

 

[RoseRed]

None of the above.

I have opened my great grandmothers bible to look at the family births and deaths though.

 

[Dondi]

Read the King James Version NT and most of the Old Testament. Listened to a New King James Version NT tape series all the way through.

 

[Tonio]

Revised Standard Version, mostly the historical books like Genesis, Exodus and the Gospels. The God of the Old Testament and (to a lesser extent) the God of Paul's Letters and Revelations comes across to me as arbitrary, capricious and impossible to please. Like nothing humans do is good enough for Him.

I also read part of the Bible Handbook, although I can't remember the author's name. The book spends entire pages bashing the Catholic Church and the Popes and cozying up to Martin Luther. While I believe that criticisms of the Popes' abuse of power are valid, I don't think those abuses discredit Catholicism. If anything, I believe they discredit authoritarianism and orthodoxy in general.