why keep reading the bible over and over

[Ian Dury]

Why do people keep reading the bible over and over? Isn't once enough! How does reading a text make you a better person? "For heavens sake!, it is what you do in life that counts, and the type of person you are, not how many times you can read the bible. To those who study it! "Get a life" I say!

[juggaloXIII]

I read scriptures repeatedly to get a better understanding of it. When I first read Revelation, it scared me to death. But now, I understand it and the knowledge of what I read gives me peace. Its kinda like reading a book again, because sometimes it didn't click the first time, and by reading it again, you see something you missed. Then it makes sense.

[Godsgifttomankind]

I would be interested to hear what you understanding of Revelation is. I have no specific chapter or verse but your specialty is fine with me.

[Alan]

I was thinking, do you guys think we are living in the vials of wrath stage? Or is that to come later? Or has it already passed?

I was just looking for an opinion.

But to think prophecy, the Daniel peace treaty one, what do you think about the new peace treaty they are trying to set up.

Just to add: I dont think the Us's president bush will be then antichrist, I am guessing he may be someone from the EU, maybe even the new EU president, or one of them.

My guess is the end is a little near, as it sais about the parable with the fig tree. When Israel starts bloseming, the generation shall not pass. As I am guessing our years are 120 as it says, it may be within 120 year of 1948 that the end of time will happen, but who knows, only God.

Feel free to share opinions.

Thanks guys,

Alan

Ps I would prefer if only those who believe in God will anwser here as I see no need to argue in this subject. Go to another post if someone wishes to argue about this, being the Bible.

[Vita4All]

I think too many people responding to the Bible in these posts are fixated on the Armaggeddon, and this reflects their anxiety about dying, and in particular, dying before they have figured out the art of living.
The Bible is a guide book for moral LIVING, despite the bloody historical stories of Bible characters and the fantastic ending of life as we know it on this planet and what happens to us afterward.
Tonight as I looked at webpages of Hubble and NASA photos of the galaxies 10 million light years away, and of planets forming and dying throughout the universe. I thought about how brief our time is here on earth, and how in space time it will be over in the blink of an eye. Life and science and physics laws are too mathematically perfect to be random, so that is proof that creation was created by the Creator.
God's promise is that we can be with Him for eternity. He sent is only child Jesus as a link to him, and the Spirt, and a host of prophets to spread the Good News that we don't have to die when our end comes, or when Judgement Day comes.
For the individual, such as you, reading this, the end is not Armeggeddon. The end is when an individual allows their soul to shrivel up and die from not living within God's plan for us, and we lose our chance for joining God in the universe and beyond when our bodies give out.
There are those who will be very angry about what I have written. To them I would say to let it go, and stop fixating on finding contradictions in the Bible, or finding excuses to not believe in God. He is the Way, the only Way, He made the universe and all that is in it, and he made us in His image, which may be why He doesn't seem so perfect at times. But He is all we've got, and all you've got, so if you want a shot at eternal life with him as opposed to eternal nothingness, it better to align yourselves with our Creator and submit to living decent lives of giving and loving and moral behavior. Start with saving our environment. Vote for candidates who have a record of trying to save this planet, and complain to the media and your congressmen about their complacency. Iraq and Israel and the Palestinian conflicts don't mean crap if the planet is uninhabitable by the time you're kids are middle-aged.
Some people think they are nice, and this is enough, when really they are just socially pleasant when there are no demands on them. Politicians are pleasant all the time as they talk to the public and then order reckless actions that result in needless human and planetary suffering. Be involved in making this a better world, and be decent in your daily living, stop making heroes out of criminals and gansters and promiscuous destructive types, who have little or no self-discipline, no respect for others, and live selfish, hedonistic lives, and sneer at things that takes work and committment.
I recognize that there are people who believe in God and still behave horribly, but they just haven't given up their habits and lies to themselves to comply with God's plan for sane living. Likewise, there are atheists and agnostics that are model citizens and wonderful friends. I'm just saying that if you want life to continue and join the Lord for all eternity, he has a guidebook on Living, living now and living later.
Lastly, trust in the Lord.
Trust that when you are alone, and afraid, and terrible things have happened to you or your loved one, that He loves you, and that often he will send people or help into your life to make it bearable or better. Help comes disguised in many ways, as do opportunities. This life we live is terribly important, and we should cherish our own and the lives of others, but it is still a grain of sand in time compared to the timeless journey we have ahead with Him. So good luck in making wise choices...

[SP50]

Amen!!

[Proverbs c9v9]

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This is a stupid question. You answer mine first, then I will answer yours. Question for thread starter: "Can one memorize everything in a dictionary by reading it once"?

[shrike]

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

[Philosopher Foelhe]

Why do people keep reading the bible over and over? Isn't once enough! How does reading a text make you a better person? "For heavens sake!, it is what you do in life that counts, and the type of person you are, not how many times you can read the bible. To those who study it! "Get a life" I say!

Hmm... y'know, I remember when I turned fourteen, I got a book for my birthday. Tried to read it, found it dull and boring, tossed it aside and forgot about it. A few years later, I was bored, had nothing to do, spotted it on the shelf and thought, "What the hell." Best damn book I'd ever read. When I was fourteen I wasn't really ready to get it all, but when I got older I could handle it better and I enjoyed it much more.

And that's just literary growth. People grow spiritually in a lot of ways, and if they grow in a way that lets them harvest more meaning from a piece of the bible they didn't "get" before, more power to 'em.

[DontBeAfraid]

What book was it? Im usually interested in hearing what people decide is the best bok they have ever read.... even though I usually make no active effort in such subjects.

[Philosopher Foelhe]

The book was "Out of the Silent Planet" by C.S. Lewis. But really, when I said it was the best book I'd ever read, I meant then. It was kind of like I was in the perfect place, mentally, to read that book, so that it wasn't talking down to me but it wasn't over my head. Right now I'm reading "To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis, and imho it's miles ahead of Silent Planet. Forgive me, C.S.