Have most Christians read the entire bible or just the bits they like?

Question

Have most Christians read the entire bible or just the bits they like?

Answer 1

I have read the entire Bible more than once. I did not start at Genesis and read through Revelation.  It's not a novel. 



I suspect that "most" Christians have not read the entire Bible.  Or have even picked it up in the recent past. 

Answer 2

People who read the whole bible don't usually claim to be christians after that.

No adult who reads that whole thing could ever buy into it.

Christians get it fed to them, nice bits alone.

I have long suggested that christians actually do read the bible, but that suggestion has been in vain.

Answer 3

I have read the entire bible. All of it.  I am now re reading it and am really enjoying the book of Sirach.



Catholic

Answer 4

Yes we have...........

Answer 5

I read the bible every day and when I finish with revelation, I start all over again

Answer 6

While I was a Christian I studied the bible in depth, daily, for 30 years, including the original Koine Greek.  I was born & raised in a fundie Christian home, members of the church of Christ.



My parents are still Christians.  I am not.



I don't know why they can study the same book thru the same filter and still believe, while I cannot.  Every time I hope the Bible I find another contradiction, error or absurdity.  It is so OBVIOUSLY written by men, not a god.

Answer 7

According to the source below (from a Christian website) 



20% of Christians have read the Bible all the way through

27% have read at least 1/2

43% admit they have haven't read more than a few selected passages  

10% have never read it at all



So, most Christians get their direction on Christian doctrine from their clergy and not from the Bible.  My guess is that if being a Christian required you to read the entire Bible there would be a lot fewer Christians.



"The best cure for Christianity is the Bible"  Mark Twain

Answer 8

Actually, most Christians have never read a word of it.  If they did they would become atheists so the Clergy has never encouraged its reading. Reading the Bibles by a layman was considered a sin until the 17th Century... 

Most Christians don't know that there are two very different Bibles written a thousand years apart.  

Answer 9

I think they gloss over the parts where their loving God orders his followers to tear pregnant women apart and talks about blessing people who bash babies against rocks.  They love to focus on the parts where God threatens to endlessly torture people for sticking their junk in the wrong hole or commiting the unforgivable sin of not believing in his asss while he chooses to remain hidden.

Answer 10

I've read the entire Bible through again and again and again, more times than I can recount. But, then, I've been a Christian for over 40 years. Most of the Christians I know who are around my age have likewise read the Bible from start to finish far more than just once. I move in Protestant Reformed circles. I can't speak for other groups but I know that the vast majority of Catholics in the world have never read the entire Bible. Many of them have never even read bits of it. 



A problem with the younger generation of Christians, however, is that they are getting Bible reading done via their smart-phones or tablets etc. That is NOT conducive to reading right through the 66 books that make up the Bible, nor to memorising verses. As reading becomes shoved to the side, fewer and fewer Christians will work their way methodically through the whole Bible. This sloppy attitude affects more than Bible reading, of course.

Answer 11

I've read the bible for years. I don't know if I've read it all because I've always jumped around. I read bits I don't like. The begats are boring.

Answer 12

You would have to ask each Christian, as it would an over generalization to claim to know what "most Christians" do or do not do.

Answer 13

Most, no.  They're told what to think and say, every Sunday.

I've read it and studied it intensively during my master's coursework.

People who do read it, intelligently and objectively, end up atheist to its gods.

Answer 14

Probably

almost certainly

most Christians have NOT read the entire Bible.



It is a rather difficult and lengthy read.



Me: read several different versions of the Bible cover-to-cover.

Answer 15

Most just read bits here and there. They have no idea what the context is, and they’re easily manipulated into believing that there was no slavery in Bible times.

Answer 16

Most seem pretty unfamiliar with the Bible.

Answer 17

They understood word trinity that does not exist in bible. 🤔 Brilliant! Fabulastic! Excellent! the way to hell is open.



I do not prefer to speak lies on spiritual path because I know were we are right now. You may slip anytime.

Answer 18

I don't believe Jesus was the son of a god anymore than we are and it never made sense to me that Christians look to the bible as their religious guide when the bible was written by a bunch of men, none of whom were proven to know Jesus, most of whom didn't even live during his time.....just because it was declared by more men that this terribly translated, heavily edited compilation of writings written over a long period of time was the word of god.  Amazing what people still believe in 2020.

Answer 19

Most have likely only heard the stories that have been told to them (by parents, preachers, etc.), which may not actually be the same as what is said in the Bible, and will certainly be slanted towards the interpretation of the person relaying the story.

Answer 20

I have  not only read ALL of the Bible, I have read many versions of the Bible!  When ever I finish the Bible, I go back to the beginning and read it again! 

How is one to learn the Bible If they do not read it? 

Answer 21

A Christian is a person who lives by the teaching of Jesus. I read the Old Testament to see that some of it aligns with his teaching and some of it had to be replaced by his teaching.