Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Friday, January 10, 2014

Reading The Chronological Bible Is Enjoyable To Many Individuals

By Marissa Velazquez


Many people have called the Bible the greatest story ever told. It is consistently the biggest bestseller in the world. Western laws and cultures have been shaped by this book, and it has affected millions of people in a positive way for thousands of years. Statistics, however, indicate that not many people have read this volume in its entirety, which may be why the chronological Bible is so popular among certain individuals. This version of the book is thought to make reading the volume easier for most people.

Most individuals have heard of Bible; however, some individuals do not realize that it is not presented in chronological order. This means that the books of the Bible do not follow each other in the exact way that history was recorded. Rather, some of the events actually took place in a different order than the way they are arranged in the original transcript.

This book boasts more than thirty-one thousand verses and twelve hundred chapters. The latter cover thousands of years of historical events. The Bible was eventually put into chronological order by individuals who painstakingly researched this era. The message itself remains unchanged, the books are simply set up 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, which total three volumes, interrupt the book of Revelation several times. However, the latter is the last book, in both the traditional Bible and the chronological version. Many people find that the this book is more enjoyable when it is read in this way, but as one would suspect, this is largely a matter of personal preference.

Those who wish to read chronologically will find that two options are available: following an outline listing the chapters and verses in sequence, or buying a chronological version of the book on the Internet or in a Christian bookstore. To read the book in its entirety in a single year, about 20 minutes a day must be dedicated to this task. Fortunately, it is not difficult to find a chronological Bible if one prefers this version.




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