Steps of Faith for the Deaf
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Hello,
Bible Vs. Psalms 86:11 (New Living Translation):
“Teach me your ways, Lord,
that I may live according to (living by) your truth!”
We have to know what God wants us to do—-so we can do it.
We have to read the Bible to know what God says to do.
The New Testament is the easiest to read. So begin with the New Testament.
As time goes on you can read the Old Testament—-but at first skip over the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy in the Old Testament—-they have many verses about Jewish laws and animal offerings. They are important books —but are very hard to read through for a person new to the Bible.
The other Old Testament books are stories of the leaders of Israel and the kings.
The New Testament books are about Jesus’ birth and his teachings when he was here on earth before the cross.
The other New Testament books were written by other Jewish leaders and by a man named Paul. They have many things to say about how Jesus wanted us to live.
If you are going to play a game—like baseball or football, etc.—you need to know the rules.
If you want to go to heaven—and if you want to live right before God—you have to know what he wants you to do.
In the United States –Bibles can be found many places for free—-you can go to a library and get a library card and check out a Bible to read. If you asked the library –if they would get you a free Bible, they probably would.
You can find free New Testaments and Bibles from the Gideon organization.
They put free Bibles and New Testaments in hotels and motels. They put them other places too. My doctor’s office has them on a table for free.
If you called a Christian church and told them you would like a free Bible and would they get one for you—-I am sure they would.
You can go to a Book store and look at Bibles—they have several Translations.
The KJV—King James Version is an old version of the Bible and is thought to be very trusted in its translation to English words— The Bible was first written in Hebrew and Aramaic and Greek words– by the men who lived in Jesus’ time.
During the time of King James of England—-about 50 different men—all men who studied the Hebrew and Aramaic and Greek words and knew them well—- worked together to put the Bible into the English language.
The KJV Bible has some verses that are hard to understand —-because they used old English words of that time,—-and we don’t use those words today.
So, newer English word Bibles— have be written by men who also studied the Hebrew and Aramaic and Greek languages— and they put the Bible into more modern English words.
Some Bibles have limited vocabulary of easy simple words for people who need more simple English words. The deaf like these Bibles—and also people who have English as their second language– and don’t know many English words yet.
You can look at the Bibles, read some of the verses , and see which one looks like it is easy for you to read.
Knowing God’s word is very important. If you know what the Bible says—then if someone is saying something that is not what the Bible teaches—you know that his words are wrong.
But you have to know the Bible to judge that.
There are people who says things that might sound good—but it is not what the Bible teaches. You need to know the difference. You will only know the difference if you know the Bible well.
If you read one or two chapters a day—-you can read through the whole Bible in about 1 year and 1/2. Then start over again.
Good-bye for now. I’ll write again. Sincerely, Joyce Webb