>read the Bible 2 chapters a day for Lent
>finished yesterday
>feel empty because it's over
now what?
>read the Bible 2 chapters a day for Lent. >finished yesterday. >feel empty because it's over
>read the Bible 2 chapters a day for Lent
>finished yesterday
>feel empty because it's over
now what?
read it again
write fanfiction like the catholics
I didnt like paradife loft actually
Do you mean 2 books a day?
yeah I did mean that.
>2 chapters a day
Did you mean two books a day? Which version? Biblical study is best complemented by reading an edition with commentary like the Didache Bible, the Orthodox Study Bible, or even the New Oxford Annotated Bible. The Bible doesn't exist in a vacuum from the traditional ways it has been taught. There's also the writings of the Church Fathers on NewAdvent.org and various other sites.
I read the New American Bible study edition
>New Oxford Annotated Bible
Started reading this and it seems promising so far. The explanation of the J/E/P/D collated nature of scripture is very enlightening. Thank you based Catholic anon. –t. Prot
Also if anyone has any suggestions for books on the origins of the doctrine of original sin and why it's not biblical that would be appreciated.
reading it isn't enough. now try to understand it
Did your Bible have the Catholic/Orthodox deuterocanon? If you really want more read that immediately, but if you're able to be observing a liturgical season like Lent you might already have done that.
If you already read the deuterocanon and still want more read picrel + Book of Enoch.
Read it again. Go to the catholic church. Become part of the community.
>Go to the catholic church
He should go to a Christian church
read some H.P. Lovecraft. I recommend The Shadow Over Innsmouth
Sounds like you're Catholic. You can read the extra books the Orthodox use:
1 Esdras
3 Maccabees
Psalm 151
Prayer of Manasseh
4 Maccabees
2 Esdras
Plus the early Church Fathers. The Apostolic Fathers translated by Michael Holmes includes Christian texts from the 2nd century AD.
I give Protestants a lot of shit for not having the Deuterocanon, but the Orthodox Deuterocanon doesn't seem like as big a deal. Esdras is just a rehash of Ezra-Nehemiah, "3 and 4 Maccabees" have nothing to do with the actual Maccabees. Psalm 151 was never a real psalm and Prayer of Manasseh is too short to be an actual book of the Bible.
That said I'm open to hearing the arguments for them if any Orthos want to chime in.
>That said I'm open to hearing the arguments for them if any Orthos want to chime in.
RC here and
>Prayer of Manasseh is too short to be an actual book of the Bible.
It's not that much shorter than Jude. I'm not even sure it is shorter than Jude. This is why we're not supposed to interpret things I think, because nobody who does can count.
The Bible has 1334 chapters. How in the world do you expect us to believe that at a rate of 2 chapters per day you already finished it when you started less than 40 days ago???
Now study it
Just keep reading. Take time to worship God privately.
It's time for you to apocryphamaxx
Obviusly, move on in the subject, so:
- Bardo Thodol
- the Kalevala
- Mahabharata
- Tale of Genji
- the Odyssey
I read Proverbs and I feel like a foolish person who's been going through life the wrong way.
You can always change bud
Lost Scriptures by Ehrman is great, I'm reading it for Lent. Some of the writings in here are Gnostic bullshit (I viewed those more as light comic relief), but there are a lot of proto-orthodox writings in here with some great wisdom like the Acts of Thomas, 1 and 2 Clement, and The Didache
Ok clarification for transparency because I looked it up, Acts of Thomas is Gnostic, but it's still a very interesting read. Not all Gnostic writings are vague pedantic shit, but a lot of them are
can anyone else tell by looking that that isn't wholefat milk? you can tell by the fsct that it's slightly less opaque around the edges of the very top.
Yep, I know exactly what you mean. I'd guess it's 1%
Read it again.
is that cum?