Bible in a year is good for covering entire Bible in one year, in podcast format, which includes prayer and short talk on the readings each day.
NLT is easier to read in the sense that it uses modern English and units of measurements, etc., but occasionally misses some nuances. KJV uses thee’s and thou’s and older English word order and constructs. Some like it, some don’t.
Being Catholic myself, I will point out Catholic bibles have 73 books, Protestant ones only 66, due to several books that were dropped. Since the Bible itself doesn’t tell us which canon of books is correct, clearly some authority apart from scripture itself was or is still needed.
Correct, 10 days were skipped, in the Gregorian reform in 1500’s. The Hebrew days of the week of course did not use our English day names, however 14 Nissan was the 6th day of their week, which we modern folk call Friday.
Yes, for the April 3rd part only. As the article shows, it was in the middle of the Jewish month of Nissan, 33 AD.
Any references though to April are just to help us locate in the modern, Gregorian calendar. Any date conversions made between Julian and Gregorian do take into account the 10 day correction made in the 1500’s (one of the main reasons for switching to Gregorian was to correct the 1 day per century error in the Julian calendar, by refining the rules for determining leap years).
The link I posted uses Jewish and Greek sources, based on scripture and the Jewish calendar. The point of it is showing from those sources, we can pinpoint not only the day of the week, but also the month (Nissan) and the year (33 AD).
The day they pinpoint is then also converted into Gregorian April 3rd, for us modern readers.
By they, do you mean those who crucified Jesus? If so, you might have a point. The Jewish calendar considers Sunday the first day of the week, making Friday the 6th day.
The Church fathers saw a certain fittingness to Christ accomplishing the work of salvation on the 6th day, then resting, in a sense, on the 7th day.
There is no biblical reason to insist on 3 full days of 24 hours. Did you read the link though? It uses the Jewish and Roman calendars, and primarily scripture references.
Also, both the Apostolic and Nicene creeds mention Jesus’ rising on the 3rd day, which certainly implies less than a full 3rd day.
I’d like to agree that our faith needn’t be tied to calendar days, however a reason getting the date right is important, is that folks opposed to Christianity will take as a premise protestant claims of passion on a day other than Friday, then proceed to show that cannot fit the facts, then from that, draw the false conclusion that therefore the whole narrative was fabricated.
“All four gospels agree that Jesus was crucified on a Friday (Matthew 27:62, Mark 15:42; Luke23:54; John 19:42), just before a Sabbath, which was just before the first day of the week (Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:2, Luke 24:1, John 20:1)”
“ It has been my experience that those who eschew U.S. immigration laws are also willing to ignore ecclesial laws. They neither observe civil nor religious laws; theirs is a subjective morality of their own preferences.”
Many Catholic immigrants experienced protestant prejudice and worse, so it is quite understandable many American Catholics were excited for, finally a presidential candidate who seemingly shared a common faith.
Similarly, Catholics outside the US, yes, even the pope, could feel a certain interest, perhaps even pride, in having a Catholic be elected in a country of mixed denominations.
Unfortunately, he (JFK) was not a very good moral example, repeatedly being unfaithful to his wife, and other issues. I do believe he had our country’s best interest at heart, unlike many of our politicians today.
From your comments, you seem to have a certain degree of openness to research, which I appreciate.
I’d like to leave you with the thought that Jesus did found a single Church, and for over 1500 years, that clearly was the Catholic Church, and anyone can verify that by digging into the church fathers of the first few centuries, to see that the Catholic views on many issues (all of them) were held right from the start — faith, works, baptism, grace, the Eucharist really being Christs body and blood, priesthood, confession, Mary’s role, and yes, the papacy, were there from the start.
Even more important I think than the version of the Bible is where you start reading. I would encourage you to focus first on the New Testament, specifically the 4 gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), then Acts, then the various letters or epistles.
This will give you the core truths of Christianity, and some sense of the early Church.
The Old Testament is larger and contains a wide variety of different types literature: poetry, songs, proverbs, philosophy, history, prayer, wisdom, etc, and a neophyte can fizzle out trying initially to read the whole Bible on their own, cover to cover; though it can be done.