Journaling thru Bible

It is good to Journal thru the Bible.

For many reasons. 1. I helps you learn. 2. You can write questions. 3. You can seek out answers. 4. You can find answers as you continue through the Bible. 5. It let's you review your journal as you start a new journal on your next read thru the Bible. 6. It let's you help your spouse and children glean thru the Bible, ask questions, and write their own journal. 7. It helps you grow in the knowledge of Scripture. 8. It helps you help others because you have studied thru the Bible.

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*Journals - see bottom of pg.

Keep a 5 subject notebook with the Bible. Don't write in expensive Bibles (until you've read thru the Bible about 5 times.) It also keeps you from highlighting the entire thing lol. If there's verses you want to later reference back to or "memorize" you can draw a star next to the verse in the book margin. Cheaper Bibles are easy to mark in, $4 (vs the $26-100 ones). You can always donate the cheaper ones to a church, yardsale, or leave them around at hotel lounge, airports, dentist/doctor magazine area, coffee shop, wherever someone could enjoy it. Not goodwill they'll trash it. Thrift stores will hardly never resell it either. Large print are great for elderly homes or can be given to pastors to gift to older people in hospitals.

Journaling:

It's an easy way to get started reading the Bible is note marking up a notebook. Write out Questions too.

Seek answers in sermons by verses section, and looking up reputable commentaries. A few other places to seek out answers can be searched here (search bar), here here here. and here here here .

And if you've exhausted all those and have no answer then contact your pastor and see if he can suggest any deacon or elder who can help you ("on a topic around a passage/verse", or if he has time. And ask if email, dm on social media or by phone is best place to ask & interact. [And ask for book suggestions that might go over this teaching or doctrine.]

Though... you could wait to get questions answered by waiting till you read thru the entire Bible. As you might find the answer by the time you reach the end. Saving the deeper bigger questions for then, so to save the pastors time.

Sample journal entry

Note, there was no time indicated for how long it would take Noah to build this ark. However God seems to have only given the people 120 years, (from the commissioning of starting to build the ark), to repent- based on this reading. Later in Scripture you would find some answers to some thoughts, curiosities, or connections. So waiting is sometimes good.

Such as :

*God set a specific time limit before any penalty would occur in order to give humans a chance to repent. This principle is used repeatedly, such as when Nineveh was given a period to repent before any judgment was rendered (Jonah 3:9 - 10). This time span allowed the ways of righteousness to be preached (2 Peter 2:5), like what Noah did, while work was ongoing.

*What is important is that we learn the spiritual lesson derived from it.

"Now all these things happened to them (like those who lived at the time of Noah) as examples, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages are come" (1Corinthians 10:11).

In fact the NT will go on to explain that the Ark is a shadow type of salvation and that Jesus is the one who is the door. But the door closes when someone dies and there's no chance of salvation, just like with the wicked in Noah's day, when the door closed it leaves only judgement. NT tells us in Hebrews "After death is only judgement."

So some answers will come later, and some will be resolved by your next read thru the Bible as you start a new journal and find answers to the old journal entries as you reference it on this next go around.

And if you have a spouse or kids, they can glean from your journals as they also read thru the Bible. And write their own journal.

Once you read through the Bible 2x you can benefit from Topical studies. Good for 8th grade- teens, and adults. (Soon) 🌟

If children and young teens are journalling, seek parental review of the journal for further discussions and examining Scripture together 😊🤗.

I saw this neat journaling pen set if you plan to do paper journaling and add some designs and illustrations. It is from walmart and right now about $14.00 😊 (2023)