[(The Story: The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People )] [Author: Zondervan] [Apr-2011]

If you enjoy reading I would suggest this book. If you believe in a higher power I say buy the book. It’s an easy read and you will enjoy it

Liked the condition of my book. I'm using for Bible study.

This book provided me a confirmation of what I have read in the Bible in a narrative way that brought a deeper understanding of “The Story.”

I started following this along with reading my bile and I love how it breaks everything down and puts it in story form.

If you want to 📖 a Version of the Holy Bible, & Don't Expect everything from all 66 📚, then this is a Good Version. I used it as my Daily Devotional for several months. I have to admit, that I missed some of the Bible Parts that were left out.. I do Highly Recommend this Awesome 📗, for you to 📖.

Pages were not cut nice- didn't look professional.

I love that it is in chronological order . Bible verses are present , but mixed in with the story . I thought it was well written .

This book does the chronological order of the Old Testament. It has study questions & all. Really good book!

There are plenty of challenges to exploring the Bible, not least the early part of the Bible the 5 books of the Torah, which were very likely to have been passed on by word of mouth, oral tradition, in culture very very different culture to ours, often fighting for survival against the elements and the neighbours , for 600 years or more before ever being written down. The later books of the New Testament were even then most probably collected from oral tradition and fragments and collections of the sayings of Jesus of Nazareth, as well as the letters, between 40 and 80 years later than the incidents on the ground.None of it corresponds to the scene of a public figure speaking today and by tea time it is written down for the online newspaper, not to mention several video records of his or her speech or actions. The 'Recordings' we have of the words and actions of characters in the Bible are very very long distance from the original incident.We can easily get locked in two options in our response to the Bible, sitting in judgement in comfortable 21st Century armchairs .Some commentators, who it appears are especially given lots of air time on TV, Say that somethings are preposterous, or very unlikely eg. .Jonah the reluctant prophet coming out of a whale's stomach, Samson in Judges 15:4-5 So he went out and caught three hundred foxes and tied them tail to tail in pairs. He then fastened a torch to every pair of tails, ... setting fire to Philistine crops in retribution. Therefore the Biblical records are all about God made in man's image, with nothing in them to respond to apart from ancient tales and myths, basically made up and parables encouraging us to be nicer people.The other group is believers who keep saying the Bible is inerrant, cannot conceivably have any issues, won't investigate archaeology, oral traditions, cultural influences, and will say that the Genesis Story can only describe 6 of 24 hour periods for the development of the World. This blocks out exploring the option that it might be as process of 600, 6,000 600,000 years and actually does the time scale matter? What does matter is the critical view that intelligent design was involved in the poorly understood process of how stuff came about ,in contrast to mere natural selection of genetically random mutations, a traditional evolutionary theory, that has no place for 'God's involvement, and not much purpose for living. Stepping out of an 'inerrancy bunker' it is actually amazing to see that True scientists will accept how little we do know, and will continue to try to fit different models to the evidence we believe we have at the moment.How about the model that a powerful supernatural force has given us a fascinating world to explore, but leaves us guessing, so we don't have to prematurely rule anything out, The Bible as recorded doesn't appear to claim to be a Scientific text book to describe to any or all generations,what? has happened, what? questions about life, but significantly, the timeless Why? questions about life. Moving on and not getting over focused on the Genesis account, there is a lot more Bible to explore in a new way through reading ' The Story', think it was Mark Twain who said ' its not the bits of the Bible I don't understand that worry me, its the bits I do understand... Along with a section of challenging questions at the end, I encourage any individual with an open mind to get a copy, read the Story with fresh eyes and get together with others to have lively discussions of what they read, dip into cultural and geographic understanding of what you find in Bible! Lots of people find especially the Old testament intensely challenging, and are put off .. its a scarey place, an amazing place of struggles, a brutal place at times, as well as sometimes heartwarming, cheering the overcomer. Looking at the World News today, apart from the cosy armchairs we sometimes sit in, the insecurity, injustice for many,lying, bullying, greed, betrayal and struggles are really, today, not much different from Biblical times!

The Old Testament is very different to the new. I feel that the new is written by a roman to include the rest of the world in the Israeli tribes story. The ending was a bit weird with the elders and the winged creatures with eyes on their wings. Seems like a hallucination of Paul’s.

I'm enjoying listening to the Bible in chronological order. It all fell into place and made more sense to me. Although I grew up reading and being taught from the Bible I feel I've already learnt more by using "The Story". In addition to the male narration of the Bible another person (female) gives additional information on the practices and laws of the day etc. Scenes/events are 'acted' out with additional voices and some sounds effects added like crowd sounds for example. Not over done though. I've now put it on my mobile so I can listen on the move. Total listening would take sixteen hour and some minutes. Would be perfect for a long flight (including return) lolPS. fyi: Voices are American :-)

I am afraid I come into the category of people who do not feel we need anyone to re-write the bible. This is easy to read but not for me.

Good purchase, book has been used and written and portions highlighted but still very good value for money.