If you're a Christian, do you feel bad for not reading the Bible?

Im a Christian, and before i used to read the Bible...but now, I have no time reading it...honestly, it doesn't matter how far you've read and understand about the Bible...it's about your faith that counts...it's about your belief on God...it's about your practice in life...it's about your behavior or an attitude...let's say, you memorized the content of the Bible, but do you practice that in life? i can even say that those who go to churches everyday doesn't really that holistic...i dare you, not all of them do apply the words of God they hear... so in my point of view, your knowledge in Bible isn't really a basis of your belief...it's more on our faith and what's inside our heart...it's not proclaiming and pretending...it's only us who can assess ourselves to the faith we have to God...

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I try my best to read the bible every day, usually before I go to bed at night or if I wake up in time in the morning before the kids get up. I don't feel Guilty for not reading if I can't, but I do notice a difference in my day. When I start my day off with God it tends to go better and stay on track...when I don't it's a tougher day.

hi ronreyes I dont really feel sorry for not reading the Bible. Normally I am an avid reader and when book is thicker it wont scare me.
However when I got into contact with evangelical folks in my teens I bought myself a Bible when I was 18 and started reading it the way they do.
Unfortunately I never ever felt that this was interesting. I was and 30 years later still am questioning what that has to do with my everyday life and I can only say, nada, zero, zilch. I stopped reading the Bible long ago as it seemed a task and chore for me and I think in my work life and private circumstances I am having more than enough chores and tasks and I dont need another one.

i am a christian and i am not guilty or sorry for not reading the bible because i know in my heart that my faith in Him is strong. i don't even go to church often but it doesn't mean i'm a more sinner than anyone else. i have a relationship with God, i talk to Him everyday in my prayers, i say to Him what i think and what i want to happen in my life. and if i do read the bible, it is because i'm inspired to do so and not because i have to follow some rules made by someone somewhere of how to be a better christian.

No, I do not feel bad about not reading the bible & I get really annoyed with people who try to shove it down my throat. Just like I don't feel bad about not going to church, I think I can have my own beliefs without having to sit in a church with a bunch of people that I don't know and listen to someone preach to me.

I do feel sorry when i don't read the Bible.I always have an excuse not to read,which is not good.The bible is such a beautiful book.If people look at the fact that the bible is a romantic book,scientific,pshycological and so much more.
Every genre in this world is written in one book the Bible.Scienticians are using the bible for scientific researches and some have even confirmed that God excist.I have difficulties in reading because of concentration problems so i bought a calendar which has for every day of the year a verse from the bible.So i can look it up in the bible and still read the bible for maybe 5 minutes or longer.
I'm glad God gave us the bible because it gives so much love and support but it's also confronting,which is good so we can learn from situations in life.
Though i do think not everything in the bible is translated well in the past but i do know God gave us this book as a guidance for our lives.Live as much your life in the way God wants us to and you will have a blessed life.

Thanks for bringing this up.

I try (yes, I try, but not always successful) to read a bit of it daily. The Bible is the world's best seller so it is only logical that everyone should read it at least once in their lifetime, no matter what conclusion they reach in the end.

I have to admit I have never read all the old Bible and probably never will. However I spend a lot of time in the New Testament. I see the New Testament as the information we need for today's world. I know there is a lot of good information in the Old Bible but I see it more or less as a history book. I do know this. There has been enough changes in God's plan in the old Bible to confuse a person if they try to mix the Old Bible and the New Testament.

I do not agree with the way most people try to use the Bible in the churches. The Bible is not man's teaching tool. It is God's teaching tool and much too often man just tries to use it to back up his opinion or his lifestyle. God Very often uses the Bible to back up some of the things He shows us. Or to explain something we are seeing or hearing.

I use the standard King James version of the Bible. I just figure it has been messed with less by man than some of the others. I don't find it hard to read at all because of the different words used when it was written. Even with it I have compared bibles from different publishers and find slight differences. I have only found one that was important enough to be concerned about. Some red letter is left out of some Bibles and people very often think it is God speaking when it is actually Jesus doing the speaking. That's the reason for the red letter addition of the Bible. Both God and Jesus spoke to different people in the New Testament and we need to know exactly who it is speaking. The 10th chapter of Acts is a good example. Both God and Jesus spoke to Peter. This little fact proves we are dealing with two different Holy Spirits today. In that scripture Jesus was doing the teaching and God was doing the guiding.

There is another thing I handle a little different about the Bible than most people do. Most people love Paul's writings and believe every word he wrote. I don't. Even the best of men that do as much talking as Paul did in the New Testament cannot help but make honest mistakes. This is what the death of Jesus accomplished. It gave God a tool He could use to teach mankind that doesn't make mistakes. The Bible calls it the Holy Ghost. At this point in time God does not use man as a Christian teacher the way man is doing it. This type of teaching ended with the death of the Apostles. Man is supposed to be teaching his kids to reach a point where God can Anoint them with the Holy Ghost. When that happens God personally takes charge of their teaching and man's teaching job with them is finished. One of the reasons for the Holy Ghost is to remove man from between God and man. All this is in the bible if you can read it with God's help to understand it. You won't find it though unless the Holy Ghost is assisting you as you read it.

I've read a lot of the Bible but not the whole thing, probably not even half. I know the ten commandments and have read a lot of the New Testament and consider myself well versed in what God wants me to do and how to live my live in a constructive manner.

So much of what the Bible contains was made for people that had no understanding of science or the world outside their little villages. While this doesn't make the messages null, it does set the stage for misunderstandings when we read it today.

I would like to read the whole book, and probably will in the next year, but people need to realize that the audience it was written for was nothing like us and many of the situations it describes would be changed now. For instance, no loving parent (like God) send his or her child to a lake of fire for eternity.

My friend you have asked alot of questions. But to answer your title, yes I do feel bad when I miss my daily reading of my bible, because that is how I feel closeness with my Lord and It helps me to stay on the right track. Happy myLotting