I never really considered myself religious. When I was a teen I was an atheist for a long while. Then I moved to a new-age kind of spirituality. But now I'm more of a pantheist believer that God is just a representation of all consciousness (omniscience), energy (omnipotence), and light (omnipresence.)
I'm more curious to read the Bible now. I've read either here or on TheDonald that the King James is the way to go. Do you think so? And where do you begin reading? Cover to cover? Or read certain passages at a time?
KJV start with Mathew. Cover to cover is, let's call it a hardcore study.
Think of the Old Testament as a History book. Very important, very worth the read, but kinda dense with genealogies and legal definitions, records of kingships, that sort of thing.
The New Testiment, starting with Mathew, is the story of Jesus and the Gospel, followed by letters between the early church. The most important part of the Bible is the Gospel. Mathew, Mark, Luke and John are different individuals recording of the life of Jesus.