I really need to sit down and read the bible at some stage Which version should I read?
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Replying to @waronweakness
NABRE is the American Catholic Bible which includes the 7 books removed from the Protestant bibles, including passages Jesus Himself quoted.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
Cheers Adam Perhaps a silly question but is there an optimal *way* to read the bible? I suspect it's not an A to B kind of read...
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Replying to @waronweakness
I hate reading the cover-to-cover method. My wife and I read a passage every night. We pick 1 gospel and 1 Old Testament and alternate each night. Keeps it fresh and you get a ridiculous amount of crossover where you see things line up between the books.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @waronweakness
So a good place to start would be Matthew and Genesis, for example. Or Matthew and 1 Maccabees if you enjoy historical records of battles with war elephants.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
Thank you very much for this. I'm noting this down
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Replying to @waronweakness @TheBrometheus
I would start with John, Proverbs, and Matthew
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Ecclesiastes! Cmon gang we’re talking to
@waronweakness and nobody mentions the sexiest, rawest, most savage book ever written? King Solomon himself wrote it and it where you get the Byrds “to everything there is a season” ... right here bro, 10 min read https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1&version=NIV&interface=amp …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Ok, YES. Ecclesiastes is actually the book that made me originally think, "Oh. The Bible's not like I thought it was... this is dark."
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I love it. The guy was literally the King of the world, had a giant frigging harem, untold riches and he’s like “meh... everything is vanity”. Savage.
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These are good books. If he’s never read it before, though, Genesis is a good place to begin building context for everything that’s going to happen. Otherwise the “hill of foreskins” will just seem silly... 
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