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Originally Posted by Makros_01
nice insight into yourself there sage.. cool how long did it take for you to read it on the bus??
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Well I read a chapter on the way to work and one on the way home. It took me a few months, but it's hard to say since I really didn't keep track.
I usually pick a text to read from for a while as part of my daily sitting. And how long and how much time I have varies. Sometimes its better to sit only than try to read as well.
NT is relatively short from book to book. So I was getting in at least 3 chapters a day, plus any further reading I did for leisure in the evening.
I didn't however try tackling Revelations, but did a study of it numerous and continuing times through out my early and later life while still in the Sunday schools and at camp. That is one that would be good to go back and look at.
There were many apocalyptic books that didn't get included and were popular based on the number of them they found in the Essenes libraries, buried in Nag Hammadhi.
I think it would be easy to read without much study the Gospels in a couple weeks. I thought Acts read better than ANY book. And the Epistles of Paul are quick although, it helps to understand the concerns he was addressing, otherwise he just sounds like a prick at times. He's not my favourite, and largely responsible, imo, for fodder for the dogmatism that spread during the instating of Christianity by Constantine.
The Gospel of Thomas, while not included, reads like the Proverbs of Jesus or the Dhammapada, which are the saying of Buddha. It's not hard to find online or in the library. Logical stuff. The Gnostics knew what's up. Phillip is another cool one. More wordy,and it's about the union of male and female, universally speaking yin and yang. John is my favourite in the Canonized Gospels.