If you wanted to go into a shop and buy a Bible (and please do, by the way!) you need to make a choice about which version, or translation, you would like. This is because the Bible was not originally written in English, but instead Hebrew and Greek. Assuming you can’t read those original languages,…
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Beginner’s Guide to Reading the Bible – Part 3
For our third post in this series, we’re going to think about some of the symbols in the Bible. The Bible is full of symbols. Overall this is a good thing because: It makes the Bible more interesting to read because it is easier to picture things. It means you can link different parts of…
Beginner’s Guide to Reading the Bible – Part 2
For our second post in this beginner’s guide (click here for part 1), we’re going to think about the structure of the Bible. We’ve seen before how there are two Testaments within the Bible – the Old and the New, which correspond to writings before the birth of Jesus Christ, and after. Outside that broad…
Beginner’s Guide to Reading the Bible – Part 1
If you’ve never picked up a Bible before, you might think it was just like any other book. It has covers, a beginning and an ending, and lots of pages in between. But in lots of ways it is totally unlike a normal book. It isn’t something you’d want to try and read in one go, nor…
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