Bible Gateway's 61 day Chronological reading plan

This thread was only my second in this forum.

As such, it preceded all the discussions mentioned on page 2 of this thread, verifiable by the date it was created.

Having said that, I'll restore this thread as the resource and debate starter it was intended to be. And yes, there is discussion to be had here, such as whether or not reading only PART of a religious work (note the gaps between chapters even of individual books from day to day in this plan) is sufficient to truly grasp the essentials of the religion.

Day. Scripture Reading. Description

Day 1. Genesis 1-3. Creation and Fall

Day 2. Genesis 12, 15, and 22. Abraham, Isaac

Day 3. Job 1-3 and 38-42. Story of Job

Day 4. Exodus 1-5, 12-14, and 20. Moses and the Law

Day 5. Leviticus 1, 10-11, 16, and 25-26. Instructions

Day 6. Numbers 3-4, 6, and 11-14. Journey to the Promised Land

Day 7. Deuteronomy 5-8, 28-31, and 34. Moses' last message to the Israelites

Day 8. Joshua 1-6 and 23-24. Joshua, Israelites enter the Promised Land

Day 9. Judges 1-4 and 13-16. Period of the Judges

Day 10. Ruth 1-4. Story of Ruth

Day 11. 1 Samuel 7-10, 12. King Saul

Day 12. 1 Samuel 15-20, 28, and 31. King Saul

Day 13. 2 Samuel 5-8, 1 Chronicles 15-17. King David

Day 14. 2 Samuel 11-13, 15, and 18. King David

Day 15. 1 Chronicles 21-22, and 28-29. King David

Day 16. Psalms 1, 8, 19, 23, 51, 100, 103 and 139. Psalms of King David

Day 17. 1 Kings 3, 6-12. King Solomon

Day 18. 2 Chronicles 5-10. King Solomon

Day 19. Ecclesiastes 1-5 and 12. King Solomon

Day 20. Song of Songs 1-2, Proverbs 1-3. King Solomon

Day 21. 2 Chronicles 14-16. King Asa

Day 22. 1 Kings 17-19, and 21. Elijah

Day 23. 2 Kings 1-2, 6-7, 11-12. Elijah, Elisha, Kings

Day 24. 2 Chronicles 24-26. Kings

Day 25. Joel 2, Jonah 1, Amos 3, Micah 1-2. Prophecies

Day 26. Isaiah 1-2, 6, Hosea 1-4. Prophecies

Day 27. 2 Kings 17-20, 2 Chronicles 29-32. Hezekiah

Day 28. Isaiah 40 and 52-55. Consolation of Israel

Day 29. 2 Kings 21-23, 2 Chronicles 33-35. Manasseh, Josiah

Day 30. Nahum 1, Zephaniah 3, Jeremiah 1-5, Habakkuk 1. Prophecies

Day 31. Ezekiel 1-3, 18, and 33, Lamentations 3, Obadiah. Fall of Jerusalem

Day 32. Daniel 1-2, 4-6. Daniel

Day 33. Ezra 3, 6-7, Haggai, Zechariah 1-2. Return, rebuilding of Jerusalem

Day 34. Esther 1-4, 7-8. Story of Esther

Day 35. Nehemiah 1-2, 4, and 6. Rebuilding the wall

Day 36. Malachi. Last Old Testament prophecies

Day 37. Matthew 1-2, Luke 1-2. Birth of Jesus

Day 38. John 1, Mark 1, John 3-4. Early ministry of Jesus

Day 39. Luke 4-6, Mark 2-4. Teachings of Jesus

Day 40. Matthew 5-7. Sermon on the Mount

Day 41. Mark 10, Luke 8-12, Matthew 17-18. More teachings of Jesus

Day 42. John 13-17 . Jesus' upper room discourse

Day 43. Matthew 26-28, Mark 15-16. Death and resurrection of Jesus

Day 44. Luke 22-24, John 19-21. Death and resurrection of Jesus

Day 45. Acts 1-4, 8-10, 12-14. The Church starts, scatters, expands

Day 46. Galatians 3-6. Paul's warnings about true vs. false religion

Day 47. James 1-3, Acts 15. Teachings and ministry of James

Day 48. 1 Thessalonians 2 and 4; 2 Thessalonians 3. Paul's letters on adversity and persecution

Day 49. 1 Corinthians 1-2 and 13. Paul's writings on living, loving like Jesus

Day 50. 2 Corinthians 4-5 and 8-9. Paul's writings on authentic Christianity

Day 51. Romans 5-8 and 12. Paul's letter on Christian doctrine, practice

Day 52. Philemon; Ephesians 4-6. Paul's writings on practical Christian living

Day 53. Colossians 1 and 3; Philippians 2 and 4. Paul's writings on growing in Christ

Day 54. 1 Peter 1 and 4-5. Peter's first letter to the Church

Day 55. 1 Timothy 1-3; Titus 2. Paul's teaching on Church leadership

Day 56. Jude; 2 Peter 1. Jude and Peter's writings on true vs. false religion

Day 57. 2 Timothy 3-4. Paul's example, encouragement to Timothy

Day 58. Hebrews 10-13. Teachings about living for Jesus Christ

Day 59. 1 John 1-3. John's letter on loving Christ, each other

Day 60. 2 John; 3 John. John's postcard letters to friends

Day 61. Revelation 1-4, 19-22. Jesus Christ's revelation to John.

What is the relevance of 61 days?

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
What is the relevance of 61 days?

The plan is just broken down for read-ability, Shak.
The Bible is a bit longer than, say, the Koran or similar works.

Bible Gateway, presumably, outlined this for people to be able to get what they needed in 20 or 30 minutes a day.

I realize Jewish and other Bible writers did consider some periods of time significant, forty days and forty nights coming instantly to mind, but I think Gateway was just attempting to be as practical as possible for Modern Day novices.

They have several other reading schedules on that same page, incidentally:

https://www.biblegateway.com/reading-plans/chronological

Originally posted by bluewaterrider
The plan is just broken down for read-ability, Shak.
The Bible is a bit longer than, say, the Koran or similar works.

Bible Gateway, presumably, outlined this for people to be able to get what they needed in 20 or 30 minutes a day.

I realize Jewish and other Bible writers [b]did consider some periods of time significant, forty days and forty nights coming instantly to mind, but I think Gateway was just attempting to be as practical as possible for Modern Day novices.

They have several other reading schedules on that same page, incidentally:

... [/B]

Are we debating rather Gateway did their layout correctly?

To me, the OP is more like spam then a topic of debate.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Are we debating [whether] Gateway did their layout correctly?

To me, the OP is more like spam then a topic of debate.

I don't see how this is very different from your thread "Practical Buddhism".

In that thread you present the summary text anyone interested in Nichiren Buddhism should read if they want to learn the essentials of the religion.

So much more text is involved with the source book HERE, however, that even a reasonably complete summary is of length daunting to the average reader without a sensible plan.

Originally posted by bluewaterrider
I don't see how this is very different from your thread "Practical Buddhism".

In that thread you present the summary text anyone interested in Nichiren Buddhism should read if they want to learn the essentials of the religion.

So much more text is involved with the source book HERE, however, that even a reasonably complete summary is of length daunting to the average reader without a sensible plan.

Yes, but I gave the reader something to talk about. If you had say, given scripture that supported the idea that reading the bible is something important to Christianity, then someone could talk about the disparity of biblical knowledge in some Christian religions.

To be honest, my Practical Buddhism thread, was not a very good thread for debate. In hindsight, I should have narrowed the topic. As it was, the thread fell apart.

I'm not sure how a list of how to schedule and read the Bible in chronological order is of use or debate to anyone but perhaps the most vapid of forum members.

So yeah, there is no comparison since this provides no context, no content, and virtually no new information then a Table of Contents.

Originally posted by Stealth Moose
I love you bro, have my babies (no homo).

Even with a socialist country like Canada, people be tryin' to make a buck.

I still see no point in this thread.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
I still see no point in this thread.

That's not the point I was talking about! Although I do like the song Me and My Arrow.