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Stupid question but is it common for Christians to be able to identify which book a Bible verse belongs to? I assume you'd have to have read the Bible multiple

by olalonde 10mo ago

Stupid question but is it common for Christians to be able to identify which book a Bible verse belongs to? I assume you'd have to have read the Bible multiple times to be able to play this, right?

protonbob 10mo ago
Yes. Many of us read it multiple times a year.
cogman10 10mo ago
There are hints in the style of writing which can place things pretty quickly. It's pretty easy to tell that something is old or new testament based on the writing styles. What's hard is the OT has a fair number of similar writers and a lot of books. The first question I got was [redacted] (lol) which is really hard to track down as they all sound the same to me. Edit I didn't realize everyone had the same question. So pulled out the hint.
publicdebates 10mo ago
I absolutely would pass this kind of quiz 100% with any New Testament quote, thanks to having put Life and Truth Dramatized Audio New Testament on in the background literally 24/7 for a few years straight. Also John Rhys-Davies reads Hebrews so well with his classical training and Welsh accent that it's hard not to memorize large parts of it verbatim.
- cogman10 10mo ago
  NT would be pretty easy to guess from just about any verse. The hardest part would be placing one of the epistles or determining exactly which gospel a verse came from. OT is a lot harder simply because of the number of writers and how boring/similar a lot of the writing is. To be successful you'd need to have something pulled from like the pentateuch. Maybe psalms or something like Kings/Chronicles.
graemep 10mo ago
You can guess from the content and style. For example, I could easily see today's quote was Old Testament even though its not one I know, although I did not guess the book, successfully. I do not know the Bible particularly well compared to many other people, and I know the New Testament better than the Old (not uncommon - its both smaller and more important to Christians).
egglemonsoup 10mo ago
Based on my initial audience, it's definitely not common. The Christians I know have different levels of familiarity with the books of the Bible. Personally, I know Genesis/Exodus, Psalms, and the Gospels well. I can recognize Epistles on sight, but identifying the exact one is really just a guessing game. Most everything else I am not familiar with and will take me a while to guess. I think that's why people have enjoyed it so far, because of the tradeoff of getting a verse you recognize (so you can guess the book quickly) or getting an unfamiliar verse (so you get to expand your familiarity with the Bible).
thevillagechief 10mo ago
A lot of christians will start a "Bible In One Year" program at the beginning of the year. Kind of like the gym resolution. Sometimes it will take a few years to read the whole Bible, and then you start the cycle again. There's lots of different plans out there.

Stupid question but is it common for Christians to be able to identify which book a Bible verse belongs to? I assume you'd have to have read the Bible multiple times to be able to play this, right?

protonbob 10mo ago

Yes. Many of us read it multiple times a year.

cogman10 10mo ago

There are hints in the style of writing which can place things pretty quickly. It's pretty easy to tell that something is old or new testament based on the writing styles. What's hard is the OT has a fair number of similar writers and a lot of books. The first question I got was [redacted] (lol) which is really hard to track down as they all sound the same to me. Edit I didn't realize everyone had the same question. So pulled out the hint.

publicdebates 10mo ago

I absolutely would pass this kind of quiz 100% with any New Testament quote, thanks to having put Life and Truth Dramatized Audio New Testament on in the background literally 24/7 for a few years straight. Also John Rhys-Davies reads Hebrews so well with his classical training and Welsh accent that it's hard not to memorize large parts of it verbatim.

cogman10 10mo ago
NT would be pretty easy to guess from just about any verse. The hardest part would be placing one of the epistles or determining exactly which gospel a verse came from. OT is a lot harder simply because of the number of writers and how boring/similar a lot of the writing is. To be successful you'd need to have something pulled from like the pentateuch. Maybe psalms or something like Kings/Chronicles.

graemep 10mo ago

You can guess from the content and style. For example, I could easily see today's quote was Old Testament even though its not one I know, although I did not guess the book, successfully. I do not know the Bible particularly well compared to many other people, and I know the New Testament better than the Old (not uncommon - its both smaller and more important to Christians).

egglemonsoup 10mo ago

Based on my initial audience, it's definitely not common. The Christians I know have different levels of familiarity with the books of the Bible. Personally, I know Genesis/Exodus, Psalms, and the Gospels well. I can recognize Epistles on sight, but identifying the exact one is really just a guessing game. Most everything else I am not familiar with and will take me a while to guess. I think that's why people have enjoyed it so far, because of the tradeoff of getting a verse you recognize (so you can guess the book quickly) or getting an unfamiliar verse (so you get to expand your familiarity with the Bible).

thevillagechief 10mo ago

A lot of christians will start a "Bible In One Year" program at the beginning of the year. Kind of like the gym resolution. Sometimes it will take a few years to read the whole Bible, and then you start the cycle again. There's lots of different plans out there.