LibertyGal on Nostr: Although I think we can and should learn from all of the Bible, when someone is just ...

Although I think we can and should learn from all of the Bible, when someone is just starting to read the Bible for the first time, I now recommend skipping all or all but one of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy because so many people give up in these difficult, detailed books. They also mean more after reading the whole Bible. They can be read the second time around or each time a person reads the Bible through, they read only one of them and rotate through them. I try to read the Bible through every year, so that would mean reading them each every three years. I don't mind them as much as I used to and now see some things that I didn't see before in the genealogies, ceremonies, and exhaustive details of design.

I used to think the New Testament was more important, so I would read the whole Bible, then read the New Testament, then read the whole Bible again. Now I think the Old Testament is the foundation needed to fully understand the New Testament and the New Testament is the fulfillment and clarification of the Old Testament, so they are equally important for our understanding of God and Salvation.