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Should one read the bible with modern day technology?
Richard D:
I’m wondering if it’s better for me to read my bible or listen to audio bible on bible Gateway because faith comes by hearing the word of God. So if one hears the word of God in their ears rather than read it would one receive greater faith that way? :-\
mharrell08:
Spiritual discernment comes from God alone...He can speak to your heart and mind through visual, audio, and any other way if need be. Don't worry, God is not limited if you choose to only 'read' as opposed to 'listen' or vice versa. 'Hearing the Word of God' is spiritual...nothing to do with your physical ears. :)
Marques
Linny:
I agree with Marques. "Hearing" is speaking of Spiritually hearing not physically hearing. The church folk hear (with their ears) the Word of God every week at church but they don't "hear" it, you know?
martincisneros:
--- Quote from: Linny on October 27, 2008, 04:17:14 PM ---I agree with Marques. "Hearing" is speaking of Spiritually hearing not physically hearing. The church folk hear (with their ears) the Word of God every week at church but they don't "hear" it, you know?
--- End quote ---
Catch-22: If the Word of God were actually being taught and preached every week at Churches, we'd probably have fewer issues with those Churches.
It helps to feed on the Word every way that you can get it. Read it, listen to it, speak it (i.e. read it aloud), write it out, and most importantly make sure that you're a doer and not just a hearer of the Word. Don't just write the Word on your heart, which is where it needs to be most of all. Write it all over the house and read it every chance you get. Make posters with long passages like 1John 3:14-24, Galatians 3, etc., and read 'em every chance that you get! Sounds fanatical, perhaps, but think of the filth we're bombarded with every day in the same way with billboards, television, internet advertisements, magazines, all of the holiday posters and advertisements that fill our stores, our malls, our schools, etc.
If we've got anyone at this forum that tinkers a bit, here's an idea for an invention: figure out how to have a door bell that quotes a bunch of Scriptures on the Universal Restoration when someone's at the door. First ring of the bell and you hear 1Corinthians 15:22 being read all over the house, second ring and you hear Ephesians 1:10 being read all over the house, third ring and you hear Revelation 5:13 being read all over the house instead of the typical buzzers, bells, digital sounds, etc. when the button for the door bell is pushed. Perhaps have it with up to 3 to 5 dozen presets since the tiniest chips these days can have megabytes of memory. And then the ability to customize it the way that you want it, with either one Scripture being read each time the button is pressed, or your choice of the Scriptures that are preset into the memory being spoken each time the button is pressed in the order that you wish, or with simply having it read a different one of each of the presets each time the door bell is rang until it's spoken all of them aloud that are in it's memory and then just starts over.
Richard D:
The other night I had put on a pair of head phones and listened to audio bible on bible gateway and thought it was great although unlike reading I find it does lack because it moves to quickly. With reading one can go slow and have time to think and meditate about what’s being read.
I was interested in others opinion
In God’s love. Richard.
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