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Discussion
It breaks my heart how many Christians have never read the whole Bible. These people say they want to follow, obey, and become more like Jesus and yet they won't find the time to read His word to find out what He says about Himself, us, and how to follow Him. Godly men were willing to lose everything, including their lives, to copy and translate the Bible so we could buy it and have it available to us and we refuse to make use of this blessing.
honestly took me a long time before I got through the old testament. I think I read the new testament like 5 times before I read the old all the way through. Not sure why honestly because both are very interesting. I did skip some of the parts where it is all names.
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.
I agree, the whole Bible is needed.