Here are ten ways to read the Bible with fresh eyes in the new year. 1. Add a new translation to your bookshelf. If you’ve primarily read one translation for many years, find a new one.

The first two ways of reading the Bible are highly subjective. The first way begins and ends with me. Everything, including reading the Bible, is interpreted through my own set of lenses.

I read the Bible because I am still learning these and other important truths. The Bible for me has never been an “easy reading experience.” It’s the difficulty of it that keeps me coming back.

In a May 2 column I addressed the appalling lack of Bible literacy among Christians. I also mentioned I would follow up in a future column with ways to increase biblical literacy. This is that column.

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Better Ways to Read the Bible: Transforming a Weapon of Harm into a Tool of Healing Zach W. Lambert. Brazos, $19.99 trade paper (216p) ISBN 978-1-58743-668-0.

Believers read the Bible as the word of God. That is not always easy. Many biblical stories do not speak clearly to modern ears. People seek the help of theologians to wrest lessons from its ...

But studying the Bible, she learned that God called Israel as a minority people (Deut. 7:7), and translation, she said, proves the truth of John 3:16. God loves the world, not just the majority.