I'd like to introduce Jane True. A writer friend of mine who is my guest blogger. She wrote this piece and I felt compelled to post it on my blog. I hope you like it as much as I did.
Many a Christian has read the Bible from cover to cover, I’m
not one of them, but am in the process of joining their ranks.
My
Protestant Bible of choice is the King James Version. Modern translations are
abundant, but in my opinion, pale in comparison to the beauty and majesty of
the King James Version. Its unique Biblical English is almost a language unto
itself and is derived from late sixteenth and early seventeenth century translators, more interested in being faithful
to original manuscripts than in making their translations in the street
language of the day.
Most
reading programs suggest starting in the New Year, but I missed January by four
months. With May 1st as my start date I
was already 120 days behind. If you factor in the fifteen minutes required
reading each day and divide it by , oh never-mind, you do the math, it was a
lot of catching up to the current date which I didn’t accomplish until the
middle of July.
There
are sixty-six books comprising the Old and New Testament. Interestingly we
started at the third chapter of Ecclesiastes perhaps because it dealt with all
the times to be born, die, plant, pull up, kill, heal, you get the point. I
still question why King Solomon wrote such a mournful piece with all that God
had given him.
I
admit I am like a thirteen year old boy when it comes to the feats of Joshua,
David and Daniel. Once I figured out David’s exploits were reiterated in the
book of 1st Chronicles I could sit back and enjoy the read.
Of
course that was before I delved into Ezekiel.
The
Bible is anything but boring. Bad guys, good guys, good guys gone bad. Promises
man made to God, promises broken by man with disastrous results. Wives who
dealt in subterfuge to push their sons and husbands ahead, a prostitute that
saved the day, a racy love poem, and thank goodness in-between the respite of
The Psalms and even they sometimes call out for vengeance.
That’s
the Old Testament synopsis; the New Testament is new because it presents an
avenue for a relationship with God as manifested through Jesus Christ. Using
the Old Testament as a backdrop, the New Testament is a reminder of the
futility, the impossibility, of pleasing God by man’s merits.
I’m
glad I pledged to undertake the journey of studying this collection of books
that embraces Spiritual enlightenment and marches through history by faith and
by golly. This book spans the ages from the beginning of creation, the forming
of the nation Israel, to the Son of God, Jesus, walking on this earth, and
concluding with a tantalizing glimpse of the future, which is not the end but a
new beginning.
No wonder it is heralded as the greatest book
ever written.
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