> You chr*stians read your bibles all out of order. First you read the “new testament,” then you read the Prophets, and finally you read that “low” and boring Torah.
Which, for a Christian, is a perfectly valid way to read it, because Christians believe that the Old Testament was fulfilled by Christ, and that what Christ wants his followers to do is defined intact in the New Testament.
An alternative way to read The Holy Bible is the way our family did when I was growing up: one set of sequential readings from the Old Testament, and two sets of sequential readings from the New Testament each day, for a full year.
Starting in Genesis and ending in Malachi for the OT, and starting in St Matthew and ending in The Revelation of St John The Divine in the New.
By time the year ended, the Old Testament had been read in its entirety once, and the New Testament twice.
That is a very difficult discipline, but generally worth it.
I don’t do that anymore, I just read a passage here, and a passage there, when it suits me to do so. This is lazy, and I should probably undertake the old reading regimen again someday.
> Try reading your bible chronologically. The Torah comes first. Nothing can contradict it.
Nothing can contradict the Pentateuch, that is true: it is God’s Word as revealed to Moses. Christ can, and has, fulfilled it. So if you do not also read the New Testament as well as the Old, you are still observing the old, and obsolete, rules.
(That is what Christians believe, anyway.)
You chr*stians read your bibles all out of order. First you read the “new testament,” then you read the Prophets, and finally you read that “low” and boring Torah.
Which, for a Christian, is a perfectly valid way to read it, because Christians believe that the Old Testament was fulfilled by Christ, and that what Christ wants his followers to do is defined intact in the New Testament.
Then, since your chr*stianity isn't based on the teachings of the Bible but rather because you assume it a priori, how do you know it is true?