Thread:Snowstripe the Fierce/@comment-5175866-20160524211311

''I would like to applaud your knowledge of the Bible and your regular reading of the Bible. Most people don't know near as much and seldom read the Bible at all. The Bible is such a blessing that daily reading is vastly more beneficial than once a week. Though we can do fine physically living like everybody else, it takes God's Word to sustain spiritual life.

We wonder why we struggle with understanding the Bible, or even knowing what to read in it, but the answer is pretty clear: we are like babies learning to eat solid food ! Too much of it scares us, and we begin to choke on it. Sometimes it "tastes bad" and we want to just read the Bible Story Books. But if we take it slowly, like maybe just 15 minutes a day, we can begin to use it to help us in our everyday lives. As I have regularly read and studied the Bible over the last year or two, I have begun to memorize portions which I can use to share the Gospel and defend what I believe. If we learn to make reading the Bible a priority, it can become as habitual as brushing our teeth. We just have to MAKE time, even if it means getting up earlier!

You have indicated that you do not understand Scripture nor where to even begin. I myself often struggle with this, but with the recent establishment of our Bible Study program, I have been doing better. The program has been created to hep people become familiar with the Bible. Since we established this program, I have been reading through the historical books, like First and Second Samuel. This has taught me a lot about the life of David! As we continue through the historical books, ask yourself questions about what the story tells you about God, yourself and the world around you.

Check out my thoughts here to get an idea of how one can learn form Biblical history. As "the Preacher" reminds us in the Old Testament, things have a way of repeating themselves. And about a thousand years later, the Apostle Paul tells us that all that history was written so that we don't repeat the mistakes of the past. Keep that in mind, and you can learn from the historical books.

For practical wisdom, check out Proverbs in the Old Testament and the book of James in the New Testament. Move into Paul's epistles to find out about what Christ has done for his people. So, where to begin? Check online, Christian bookstores, and yes, here in the Bible Wiki community. You are not alone. In fact, you need only ask God for wisdom and open the Bible and start reading anywhere. With His help, you will most certainly find treasures beyond your imagination !. * ''

The other thing you noted was you didn't understand what the Bible Wiki/Liturgical Calendar is. The liturgical calendar is a calendar, used predominantly in Catholicism (but Orthodox and some Protestant denominations have one) that prescribes certain readings of the Bible and "feast days" (celebration of "saints"). We have used the Catholic Calendar as a basis and have stripped away all non-biblical events and people. In Catholicism there are many saints, that are not in the Bible. We have removed the Bible readings, non-Bible people, and combined this with the Jewish calendar with only their biblical events to produce the web's first Bible-only liturgical calendar.

We use this to help plan writing (so we write articles based on the events and people being celebrated for that month) and to post relevant social media.

In conclusion, remember it is only God who gives understanding of the Word. The Bible assures the God will give understanding to those who ask. Thank you for taking the time that you have dedicated to writing. Remember the only policies are found in the BPOV, so if you follow those you should be able to write articles in the correct format.

In Christ,

Superdadsuper, Bible Wiki Administrator & Bureaucrat

* SouthWriter actually wrote this up paraphrasing from a message I wrote and making it from my perspective 