The 100 minute bible

[irishcowboy]

I believe that it would be like eating a hot Deep Dish Apple Pie, with out any apple filling or icecream........

would be very empty.

as it is, the average person can read the entire Bible in about 80 hours....( that is the full scale 66 book version.....

or,

the New Test. in 5 min a day for a year and about 10 min aday for the old for a year.....

i do believe there would be lots of valuable information lost.....

mike

[irishcowboy]

it may be a way of sharing Jesus, or is it??? i dont know, but it may also be away for some to continue living the way they are and not know they are still living in sin..... dont sound good....

[Trinity]

I don't think of it as a bible, but it could be a good summary of the bible without a doubt, but i think people should read the bible for insight & devos instead of the 100 min bible, but this in its self is not bad, actually i think it will be a good thing, it is no worse then when people put bible verses into their books then brake them down...

[Trinity]

I don't see anything wrong with it, as long as it readers realize it's a summary rather than the 'whole story'.

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exactly!

[yomotalking]

"This is the new Bible".

Jesus is Good, accept Him,and Live.!"

Is this the new Bible, next?

[Trinity]

This basicly amounts to yet another attempt by Satan to undermine the Bible. If he can convince people that this "summary" is all they need, then their knowledge of the Word of God goes down, thereby diminishing the likelihood that they will get saved, and generally making them easier targets for temptations in the future. This is as close as it comes to not reading the Bible at all.

Exactly! In no way should the bible be replaces. Its just a summany! When you read a book of the bible, then tell someone what you just read, thats is basically what it is.

It isn't wrong, until! You stop reading the bible, and just read this!

Here is my summany of John 1:1

In the begging was the word, the word was God, he created all things. The word became flesh But his own people didn't know him but rejected him. Before Jesus a man amed John, sent by God to prepare the way for the Word.

The Jews came to ask John who he was, he replied he wasn't the Messiah, or a prophet, he says he is the voice of the one crying in the wilderness preparing the way for the lord.

That is all it is! My summany shouldn't replace John 1:1 at all but that is what happend, a summany is just telling someone what happend. This is not supposed to replace the bible at all!

[DaniJ87]

This sounds dangerous to me. It's like an innoculation- if people think "I've already read the Bible", they won't (unsaved people) be so likely to be interested in what the Bible has to say. In condensing the Bible, you would lose SO much information- such as the details that show you the Bible's archaeological standing, or the circumstances around which things happen.

Besides- how could you possibly decide which bits to include?

Which OT events would get in? Which books would be represented? Which prophets would be quoted? Probably Esther and Ruth- sounds like the liberal type of people doing this... - and maybe David and Daniel... perhaps Solomon. But what would happen to the stories? What would be said about David? Would he be a giant killer? A king? An adulterer? There is no way anyone's whole life could be made short enough to put in there- no prominent character, anyway. Maybe someone like Ehud would fit....

What about the NT? How would you get any of the doctrines in there in a way that they would even be understandable? The ones that rely on OT information would most likely be cut- it would take up too much time to add all of those in...

This seems like an impossible feat- to actually include ALL the doctrines of the Bible, in any less space/time than God did!

For those who say it is good for sharing the Gospel- that was not what the quote said it claimed. It was reviewed to be likely to be used as a Bible.

Oh- and for your reference- "Reader's Digest" actually put out a FULL version of the Bible.

[eric]

My walk with the Lord started by reading a salvation pamphlet with several verses from the bible in it. I read the verses from a bible and before I knew it I finished up reading the whole bible. That was nearly twenty years ago and I am still learning.

Before a person reads a book they usually read thr fly cover first. Seems logic to me.

e

[yomotalking]

Before a person reads a book they usually read thr fly cover first. Seems logic to me.

e

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So we should appease the public by title?

[yomotalking]

You can think of a Bible tract as a one-minute Bible.  How much better a 100-minute Bible!  Of course, after the introduction, it will be time to move onto the unabridged version.

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True.

I don't like the Street Bible...I mean.......why not read a Bible?

Not a Paraphrase?

NO>not up for "My Translations better", or "AV only" discussion....

Just saying what I think.