How to read the Bible for the First Time All Over Again

Short answer:

Like a Book

In Chronological order

I'm using the Olive Tree Bible app, because it has a chronological plan and a smooth simple interface. I also purchased a set of maps and the NASB.

If you still read a physical Bible, there are lots of Bible sites where you can download a one year chronological reading plan, but if it helps at all, I've arranged the passages by chapter and verse rather than by daily reading. You can see my chart by clicking the Chrono Order tab. It looks accurate to me, but don't be surprised if I have to fine tune it along the way.

Set Your Head

It's cool to just plow through the long lists of fathers and sons, and the details that take up large sections of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, but you should read the words for two reasons; you'll be surprised at the stray details that stick in your head, and at how they'll start to make a lot more sense if you decide to read the Bible more than once.

Do your best to ignore verse numbers and be aware that many of the chapter divisions would never make it past a copy editor's desk (i.e. Genesis 1 and 2).

Respect where respect is due. The people in the Bible are more than characters in a very long book. They are flesh and blood humans who live in a world more brutal than most of us want to imagine as real, and they struggle with the same mixtures of virtue and vice that exist in every generation. That's what makes them heroes and villains.

The miracle is that God hasn't forgotten them -- us.

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Peace Out Y'all