Have you ever wondered how others interact with their sacred texts? In this lighthearted yet revealing conversation, we dive into our personal Bible study habits and uncover surprising differences shaped by our backgrounds, traditions, and personalities.
Javi confesses his Bible "looks like I'm trying to write a new Bible" with extensive notes and highlights throughout. He's recently returned to his physical study Bible after a digital phase, rediscovering old highlights that remind him of his studious younger self. Meanwhile, our other host details an elaborate color-coding system where yellow marks passages to revisit, green signifies daily life lessons, pink identifies instances of Jesus being harsh, and blue highlights significant questions.
The conversation takes a fascinating turn when David shares how his Orthodox Jewish upbringing instilled reverence for sacred texts that prohibits marking them in any way. Despite more than a decade in a different tradition, he still struggles to make even the smallest mark in his Bible—a powerful testament to how deeply ingrained our spiritual practices become. "If you drop the book on the floor, you pick it up and kiss it," he explains, describing how the Torah is never touched directly but approached with a pointer.
Whether your Bible looks "like a unicorn exploded on it" or remains pristine and untouched, this episode reveals how our approaches to scripture reflect our unique spiritual journeys. Join us for this thoughtful exploration of faith practices, and share your own Bible study habits with us!
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Episode Transcript
Quick questions with David.
Yeah, yeah, ah.
All right, guys, we are backfor quick questions and David
has got some zingers for ustoday.
Let's see what we got.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
How's it going?
All right, here we go.
Do you guys journal highlightor keep your Bible pristine?
Ooh.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Javi.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I like this question.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
What do you do?
So recently I started openingup my old school Bible one of my
first Bibles that I got andI've noticed all the highlights
that I've had on it.
It's like a bunch of highlightsand I'm like, wow, I was really
studious, Look at me, All right.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, look at me.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I went digital for the last maybe couple years,
I'll be honest.
But I have this big bible.
It's a study bible and so, yeah, I've been enjoying reading,
sitting down and kind of divinginto it and even diving into
some of the stuff that Ihighlighted.
So I would say I'm definitelyit's highlighted and written on.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
You're a highlighter.
Are you a multi-colorhighlighter or a single color
highlighter?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
yeah, I'm yes, I'm, I a weird creative, I'm type A a
little in some ways.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Do you know your color codes?
I color code too, by the way,and I know exactly what my
colors mean.
Yellow is things to go back andcheck again, green is things to
remember in life, like dailythings I have to remember, and
pink is times when Jesus washarsh.
That's a very particular one,because I got in this thing
where I was thinking about howJesus is pretty harsh sometimes
and I started taking that one.
(01:29):
And then blue is like bigquestions.
I love that.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Mine, if I could briefly say David, my yellow
ones are pretty much quotes orsayings that anyone could take.
It's general, it's likelife-giving and green.
It's.
I need to go back and see likeit's almost like a question like
what's going on here, is theresomething deeper here?
And blue.
I usually just use it as abookmark.
(01:52):
So I'll bookmark blue for, like, this is a big chapter that's
important for you to know foryour life so I think I already
answered the question right.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So I definitely hide my my bible looks.
My Bible looks like I'm tryingto write a new Bible.
I have so many notes in it Ithink I need a second Bible next
to my Bible so I can just keepwriting all my notes to it.
But yeah, I do love the digitalBible.
I do love the holy.
What's the app?
(02:21):
You use?
The same one, Javier.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I know you use the Bible app.
I just forgot what it's calledGateway.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, the Bible app no, not Gateway, sorry.
You version no the you versionone.
Yeah, I love that one because Ican go back and forth between
the different translations.
I love that and I do highlightthat one.
But I have a really bigecumenical study Bible.
That is.
It looks like a unicorn raninto it and exploded.
Yeah, I'm a highlighter.
(02:46):
What about you, david?
I?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
grew up Jewish, so you have prayer books it's
called the Siddur that you usein temple.
Obviously the Torah is at thefront.
But you are taught you do notwrite, you do not highlight, you
don't do anything.
If you drop the book on thefloor, you pick it up and kiss
it.
You don't touch the Torah.
You actually use a pointer totouch it.
(03:10):
So there is no way that you'reallowed to mark up.
And when I tell you it hastaken me over a decade to be
able to just put a little bit ofa mark in a book, when I'm in
the men's group and I just wantto mark something out, I put a
bookmark in it and I'll put alittle dot next to it and that's
.
That's all I could do.
I cannot get myself to do more,and I know it's okay, I know
it's just something thattradition told me I wasn't able
(03:34):
to do, but man it it.
It has been one of the hardesthabits to break from being grown
, you know growing up Orthodox.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I'm just imagining your eye twitching, like looking
over at my Bible, being like ahdon't do that, I don't look I
would imagine you wouldn't soall right guys Well see, we
learn something new every day.
Thanks for listening to oursilly questions and we'll be
back with more next week.
Talk to you then, bye.
See you guys, bye.
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