The Bible Txt →

I am not advocating that we throw away our study Bibles. I love my ESV Study Bible. I love Strong’s Concordance. I love the scholars who give us context.

The Bible.txt: Reading Scripture Without the Training Wheels the bible txt

No chapter headings. No red letters. No study notes in the margins. No devotional commentary popping up at the bottom of the screen. No verse numbers breaking up the flow. Just the raw, continuous text. A massive .txt file. I am not advocating that we throw away our study Bibles

We are used to the Bible with stuff . We like our Bibles thick, with maps in the back and cross-references in the center column. We like knowing who is speaking and what the "original Greek implies." I love the scholars who give us context

And that is precisely where I met God. Not in the neat systematic theology, but in the raw, unpolished, ancient script. The kind of text you’d expect from a group of desert nomads who claimed the wind spoke to them.

And here is what I noticed when I opened bible.txt :

Tonight, copy the Gospel of Mark into a Notepad file. Turn off your Wi-Fi. Read it in Courier New.