{"id":18412,"date":"2018-01-19T09:55:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T15:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=18412"},"modified":"2018-01-19T09:55:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T15:55:51","slug":"reading-the-bible-as-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2018\/20180119-18412.htm","title":{"rendered":"Reading the Bible as a Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been following Peter Krol&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knowableword.com\/\">Knowable Word blog<\/a> for a while now &#8211; and he&#8217;s been reviewing some of the now-intensely-popular reader&#8217;s Bibles. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been curious about them, but nothing I read was enough to convince me to get yet another Bible. After all,  Daniel and I already have an entire shelf full of Bibles. <\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photoindex\/2018-01\/20180119_071137.jpg' alt='Beth-Ellen and I snuggle as I read my Bible in the morning.' class='ngg-singlepic ngg-none' \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"center\"<em>Beth-Ellen and I snuggle as I read my Bible in the morning<\/em><\/div>\n<p>But then Krol reviewed the NIV Sola Scriptura Reader&#8217;s Bible. His absolutely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knowableword.com\/2017\/12\/08\/niv-sola-scriptura-bible-project-reading-the-bible-in-4d\/\">glowing review<\/a> convinced me. I had some gift money that had been sitting around waiting for just the right thing to strike my eye &#8211; so I bought myself a copy. <\/p>\n<p>I read in the morning as I nurse Beth-Ellen. I read until I reach a natural break in the narrative. I start over if I get lost in the middle of a paragraph. I read page after page after page, without thinking of checking off chapters and verses.<\/p>\n<p>I read it like I&#8217;d read a book. <\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photoindex\/2018-01\/20180119_073433.jpg' alt='The rest of the children join us in bed - putting an end to the reading!' class='ngg-singlepic ngg-none' \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"center\"<em>The rest of the children join us in bed &#8211; putting an end to the reading!<\/em><\/div>\n<p>Game changer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been following Peter Krol&#8217;s Knowable Word blog for a while now &#8211; and he&#8217;s been reviewing some of the now-intensely-popular reader&#8217;s Bibles. I&#8217;ve been curious about them, but nothing I read was enough to convince me to get yet another Bible. After all, Daniel and I already have an entire shelf full of Bibles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18412"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18412"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18423,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18412\/revisions\/18423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}