Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Reading The Chronological Bible Is Enjoyable To Many Individuals

By Marissa Velazquez


Many people have called the Bible the greatest story ever told. It is consistently the biggest bestseller in the world. Western laws and cultures have been shaped by this book, and it has affected millions of people in a positive way for thousands of years. Statistics, however, indicate that not many people have read this volume in its entirety, which may be why the chronological Bible is so popular among certain individuals. This version of the book is thought to make reading the volume easier for most people.

Virtually all people are at least somewhat familiar with the Bible. Certain individuals, however, do not understand that the books in this volume are not presented in the order in which they took place. This means that they do not follow each other exactly the way they were written. Instead, some of the events occurred in an order different from the way they were arranged in the original transcript.

This book boasts more than thirty-one thousand verses and twelve hundred chapters. The latter cover thousands of years of historical events. The Bible was eventually put into chronological order by individuals who painstakingly researched this era. The message itself remains unchanged, the books are simply set up in a different order.

It is interesting to see how this volume is changed when it is read chronologically. It begins with the dawn of creation, but following that, considerable changes are made to the sequence. To begin reading in this pattern, one would start with the first 22 chapters of Genesis, and then proceed to read Job. After the book of Job is finished, one would then return to the book of Genesis and read through to the final chapter.

After Genesis, the book of Exodus follows, and after this one would have to stop and read Psalm 90. The reader would then go on to the books of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. When the latter is finished, Psalm 91 would come next. Following Psalm ninety-one is Chronicles II, which is interrupted with other books approximately 16 times when chronological sequence is followed.

While the Gospels remain the same, which are the first 4 books of the New Testament, things once again dramatically change from there on. John's Gospel is immediately followed by Acts chapters One through 14, but then the epistle of James is inserted, which is followed by Acts chapter 15. The Acts of the Apostles is interrupted again approximately 8 times prior to its commencement. The next book for those reading chronologically is Colossians.

The Epistles of John, of which there are 3, are interrupted numerous times throughout the last book of the Bible, which is the Revelation. However, Revelation remains the final book, even for those reading in sequence. Numerous individuals discover that this volume can be enjoyed more when read in the aforementioned order. However, not surprisingly, this choice is up to the reader's personal preferences.

Individuals who want to read chronologically have 2 options. They can go online or visit a Christian bookstore to buy a chronological Bible, or merely obtain an outline that explains which books and chapters should be read in what order. To read the whole Bible in three hundred sixty-five days, the reader must devote about twenty minutes each day to this endeavor. Those who want to obtain this version will be pleased to find that it is easy to locate.




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