vendredi 10 janvier 2014

Many Individuals Enjoy Reading The Chronological Bible

By Marissa Velazquez


The Bible is often referred to as the greatest story ever told. It is the world's largest best-seller of all times, year after year. It is responsible for shaping Western culture and laws, and it has positively affected millions of individuals over numerous centuries. However, statistics indicate that few individuals have read the book in its entirety, which has made the chronological Bible highly popular. This is because this version makes reading the book much easier for most people.

Virtually all men and women have at least heard of the aforementioned book. However, some people are unaware of the fact that the Bible is not arranged in order. Its books do not follow one another in the precise way they were recorded by the historians who penned each volume. Instead, they are arranged in the original transcript differently from how the actual order of events took place.

The aforementioned volume has about thirty-one thousand verses and approximately twelve-hundred chapters. These cover thousands of years of history. Individuals who have studied history and events with care have discovered a way to arrange the Bible in chronological order. The message is not changed of course, but the information is presented in a different order.

It is intriguing to see how this book is changed when put in chronological order. It starts with beginning of creation, but after that, the order is changed considerably. To follow the events in the book in the order in which they actually took place, a person would read the first twenty-two chapters of Genesis, and then the book of Job. After the latter has been read, the person would return and finish the book of Genesis.

The next book would be Exodus in its entirety, followed by the ninetieth Psalm, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, and the ninety-first Psalm. Chronicles II would follow; however, it would be interrupted about sixteen times with other sections if one was reading the volume chronologically.

The New Testament begins with four books referred to as the Gospels. The order of these remain the same, but after they are read the sequence changes substantially. The first through the fourteenth chapters of Acts immediately follow John's Gospel, and then the Epistle of James is read, followed by the fifteenth chapter of Acts. The reader continues through Acts, but the latter is interrupted eight additional times before the end. Colossians is the next book in the sequence.

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.

Those who are interested in reading chronologically have two choices. They can simply follow an outline that lists the books in this order, or they can purchase a chronological Bible from a Christian bookstore or online. In order to read the entire book in one year, one must devote approximately 20 minutes a day to this task. Those interested in acquiring this version will be happy to discover that it is not difficult to find.




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