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

I do not feel guilty for not reading it as much as I should, because that is not the point. You need to feel remorse, or repentance and change your ways. That does some good. Feeling bad or guilty is not productive in and of itself.I have read the Bible through more than once. You can get Bibles with pictures. You can get modern language translations. The Bible should be interesting to all as it is a picture of life. There is good, and evil, love and lust, anger, forgiveness, witchcraft, murder, revenge. All that is in the earth is in the Bible. It is a gift that helps us see the heart of God. This is a good discussion. The truths represented in the Bible are true. Very little of it is literature or allegory, if any. A statement like that will probably earn me some negative ratings from some on here, it has before.

no I do not feel sorry it is a choice, like everything in life is a choice, some get great inspiration and strength from reading the bible, some get nothing at all.

Hi ronreyes,

I have read the Bible and I love it but I also didn't finish it..Been a while I didn't open it anymore,lack of time is not the reason...I am not just giving time for it and why? I do know...just didn't prioritize it this time!
ANyway, I don't feel bad for not reading it..I feel bad if I will be doign bad things to any human being created by GOD!
The application of those words and passages as well as living with the word of GOD is the most important thing...SO, if I can obey HIS will and share my life to others for the people to see GOD with what I say, do and think, then I Will say I that I am very proud to be a Christian!

Im a Muslim and i feel bad if i dont read the Holy Quran.I could get a lot learning while reading and understanding what i read.

Hello my dear friend ronreyes Ji,
Such compulsions only make people re-think about religion. Let them read or not, they can not be de-barred from christianity after they were born. It is common to all religion. I do not read everyday my religious books, but I do remember my Almighty every second. Nothing should forced upon. have a nice time.

I don't understand any Christian not reading the Bible. It's God's instruction manual for us and His love letter to us. It's the best way to get to know God, to understand. And when one does have a regular - daily - time reading God's word, we start to hunger for more and more.

I love knowing from the Psalms that it's okay to be upset with God sometimes. The Psalms show us that the writers were upset and told God that, but always ended up in praise.

I love the wisdom of Solomon. What excellent life lessons, timeless lessons we can learn.

I love reading about God's promises to us and about the ministry of Jesus. I love understanding that each one of us is uniquely created and has God given gifts that are supposed to be used in service to Him.

Yes, I'm an avid reader and the one book of all time that I should have read is the bible. However, I have not been able to get thru the whole thing for many of the reasons you state. I guess reading a page a day would be a good idea...

I am not a christian,i am a Hindu and we have a religious book too,named GITA,but I have not ever read it,I think there is no need of it,all of us know what is good what is bad,so why to read a book? and even after knowing what we should not do,we do it it is a sin.

No I don't feel sorry for not reading the Bible because I read it daily...morning and at night. It is the most important part of my day. God's Word is what keeps us in peace no matter what's going on around us. We know how to stand and pray for changes in our lives instead of resulting to a gun, cursing, or beating others down. Everything we'll ever need is in God's Word, but we'll never know the answer to the problem if we never seek God through His Word.

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For me it's not about reading the bible it's understanding it's lessons for us. If we understand what the Bible says then maybe we don't need to read it over and over again. I mean it would be better to understand what it says than reading it without understanding right? Living what the Bible teaches is actually what I think we should do after understanding what we have read from it.