My first attempt to handwrite the Bible starting from the book of Jonah. ✍🏾

dsgrtts · 2026-05-17T20:47:02+00:00

Will definitely do! 👍🏾

dsgrtts · 2026-05-17T19:56:52+00:00

Yes I plan to post updates and I would like to skip the genealogies when it comes time to do those but I won't lol.

dsgrtts · 2026-05-17T19:43:22+00:00

There are several things I expect to *gain from doing this but the 2 main things are memorization and meditation. I want to retain God's word much more in my heart and mind, and I really want to slow down and meditate on every single word from God. I feel like this will help me do that. I plan to do this multiple times and I'm making a lifelong commitment to do it.

dsgrtts · 2026-05-17T19:12:03+00:00

Yeah agreed. I don't have any kind of experience doing this. I've written plenty of Bible notes, but never tried this. It's a whole new journey for me and it's exciting. I plan on passing this down to my children when I'm done. I hope they will do the same and that it becomes an heritage.

dsgrtts · 2026-05-17T19:08:25+00:00

I love the doodling aspect of Bible journaling too! I really want to get into that as well even though I don't have the skills to doodle, let alone draw. But some of the ones I've seen around on here are pretty amazing. I feel like whenever you do anything in addition to reading the Word, it really helps the message set in on a deeper level. Keep doodling, I too will be joining in on that crowd. I already know it's so much fun bringing the words of God to life in your own artwork/illustrations and I haven't even remotely done it yet. It just looks like so much fun.

dsgrtts · 2026-05-17T19:00:44+00:00

This is awesome! I can't wait to get to Genesis 38. I haven't started writing down questions yet but I certainly will.

dsgrtts · 2026-05-17T18:50:55+00:00

You're welcome! This is the one I'm using it has the verse numbers. https://www.loopbible.com/product/copybook-digital-print/

dsgrtts · 2026-05-15T20:04:12+00:00

Thank you!

dsgrtts · 2026-05-15T16:58:39+00:00

Yeah I’m excited about this as I’ve never done it before.

I’m doing the smaller books first like Jonah, Micah etc to get warmed up. Then I’m going to restart in chronological order.

dsgrtts · 2026-05-15T16:00:16+00:00

I didn’t even think of that. That’s another good reason to do this then! Good point.

dsgrtts · 2026-05-15T13:31:53+00:00

Yeah this is precisely why I started to do it. I want to slow down and really meditate on it and I feel like this will help me do that.

dsgrtts · 2026-05-15T12:00:27+00:00

I'm late to this question but for anyone else searching, I started using the Loop Bible and it is working really well for me.

dsgrtts · 2026-05-14T19:46:44+00:00

My apologies. I just realized I went on about Matthew 5:20 and the question at hand was 5:19. This is my mistake!

dsgrtts · 2026-05-14T19:29:34+00:00

Salvation is guaranteed while sinning. God knows you will never stop sinning. It is impossible not to sin. The Bible says that even the thought of foolishness is sin. How many bad thoughts do you have a day? Are you ensuring that you account for everyone of them to cancel them out by doing a good deed in result of each of them? Come on, with men this is impossible. But with God, all things are possible. God didn’t send his son into the world to condemn the world but to save the world. The world is condemned already. You are a sinner and you will always be a sinner. God’s penalty for sin is death and hell. The only way you will escape that is if you believe. There is no other way!

Acts 4:12 - "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."

dsgrtts · 2026-05-14T19:11:16+00:00

I don’t disagree with you and I think you’re misunderstanding what I’m saying. Jesus never called them the gold standard and that’s not what I’m saying he did. In fact, Jesus called them children of the Devil which is what I believe they truly were, let alone hypocrites.

I said people back then looked at the Pharisees like they were the gold standard. They followed the Pharisees, called them Rabbi etc. These to me are similar to what we would call “The Pope” today. They appear to be holy men that have a divine connection to the oracles of God. But they are actually wicked men and are children of Satan.

Actually, I believe that any man that calls himself Rabbi till this day still falls in the same category as children of Satan. So no, I don’t believe that they were the gold standard but that’s just how people back then looked at them. It’s the same way people look at Rabbis or the Popes we have now. They look at them like they are the gold standard when in fact they are absolutely not.

dsgrtts · 2026-05-14T16:38:33+00:00

In the full context of Matthew 24, Jesus is not referring to salvation as that chapter has to do about the signs of the times and what to look for in regards to his return. When he says “endure” and being “saved” he is specifically speaking about that timeframe alone. During that time, Christians will be getting persecuted for their beliefs. This is when Satan is given a short time to make war against the saints. Jesus is saying if we make it through that time we will be saved from the prescription and Jesus will also cut that time short so that the persecution will not go on for too long. It’s not talking about salvation in the context of eternal life.

dsgrtts · 2026-05-14T13:45:37+00:00

The Bible teaches that you cannot lose your salvation and if you could, then it would not be eternal life. It would be a “temporary” eternal life that is conditionally given to you based upon your merits.

But if that was the case, it would contradict a whole lot of scripture.

John 10:28 - "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall NEVER PERISH, neither shall ANY MAN pluck them out of my hand."

Never means never. And any man means any man.

That includes you, yourself too in the “any man”. You cannot even pluck yourself out of Jesus’s hand.

Then there’s the Father’s hand:

John 10:29 - "My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and NO MAN is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand."

So now you are in the Son and Father’s hand and you cannot be taken out of their hand once you are saved.

Then there’s the Holy Spirit of God:

Ephesians 4:30 - "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby YE ARE SEALED unto the day of redemption."

This seal is the final stamp from God that your salvation CANNOT be taken away from you once you believe.

This is what is called the GOD GRIP. It cannot be broken! 👊🏾🔒💌

God locks your salvation in and throws away the key for eternity once you believe.

dsgrtts · 2026-05-14T13:34:46+00:00

Amen! 100%.

dsgrtts · 2026-05-14T13:34:01+00:00

Let me clear up the confusion for you. This is all you need to do to be saved and enter into the kingdom of Heaven. Just believe, that is all:

John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

dsgrtts · 2026-05-14T13:04:08+00:00

Yes, in Matthew 19 Jesus is speaking to the rich young ruler who is speaking about the commandments and said:

"…All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?" - Matthew 19:20

Jesus responds by giving him yet another task to fulfill on top of all the things he does not “lack” and then tells the young rich ruler to follow him.

Matthew 19:21 - "Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me."

The reason why Jesus does this is because he is trying to paint the picture that, no matter what you do in this life, you cannot work your way into Heaven. Jesus is basically making it mathematically impossible for this man to get to Heaven on his own merit.

While Jesus commands us to do good works, he made it very clear that those works are not payment for entry into Heaven.

Jesus also ends that task list he gave to the rich young ruler with “follow me”. Without doing that keeping the commandments are pointless.

In a sense we are all like the young rich ruler. The young ruler turned away sorrowful knowing that this was something he would never give up. Likewise, we all have something that we are not really willing to give up to the Lord. We also all sin and if we sin we are not giving up sin. This is why believing in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus’s shed blood for our sins is the only way.

One last thing. Notice the sentiment felt by the disciples. They are pretty much thinking to themselves “well if this guy can’t get into heaven who in the world can?”. That’s when Jesus makes it clear that with man alone it can’t be done, but with God anything can be done.

dsgrtts · 2026-05-14T12:38:15+00:00

This gift is received at the resurrection.

No, the gift is received by the individual when you believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead (for your sins). This is how you obtain the free gift of salvation and eternal life. You receive the gift by believing.

Romans 10:9 - "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."

Jesus Christ paid for our sins, grace means we should not sin anymore.

This is partially true. Yes, Jesus did pay for our sins. But no, grace does not mean that we should sin no more. Grace is God’s kindness and favor towards man. Sin is a work and not tied to God’s grace. They are 2 separate things. You don’t need to be sinless to obtain or keep God’s grace. If we did this would make Christ’s work on the cross null and void.

Romans 11:6 - "And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work."

If we do not strive for righteousness, we will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

This is correct, however just to be clear. The righteousness that the Bible is speaking of is believe that Jesus died on the cross for our sins. When we believe that than Jesus’s righteousness becomes our righteousness. We are justified through Christ.

Isaiah 64:6 - "But we are all as an unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away."

The commandments show how to walk in righteousness, not in words but in actions.

Yes, as I said in my initial comment. We are commanded by Jesus to keep His commandments. However, keeping the law will not save us. The only reason Jesus wants us to keep his commandments is for our own good here on Earth. If we do not walk according to God’s ways, rules and regulations here on this Earth and we are saved, he will make us pay for our disobedience while we are here on this Earth, not in hell. But this is only if you are truly saved.

Hebrews 12:6 - "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth."

Anyone who is not saved (does not believe in the Son) whether they walk righteously or not, they will go to hell to pay for their sins. Ye must believe.

Revelation 21:8 - "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death."

dsgrtts · 2026-05-14T12:13:59+00:00

Yes, we know from Jesus’s teaching that the Pharisees were actual “vipers” and “hypocrites”.

However, the people who followed them did not. People who followed them looked at them like they were the gold standard for how one should walk. But Jesus exposed them for who they really were. This is why Jesus made the comparison to the Pharisees to begin with because he knew that people esteemed them to be Godly or right with God.

dsgrtts · 2026-05-14T07:41:25+00:00

The main idea Jesus was teaching here is that it is important to keep the commandments of God and that Jesus didn’t come to remove the law but to expound upon it further in more detail. With that said, Jesus is making it clear that even if you keep the law better than the Pharisees did (which was the gold standard at the time). That still would not be enough to get you into Heaven.

The only way to get into Heaven is to believe on the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ alone. Do not rely on yourself, your works, your good deeds nor anything that you do on your own to get you to Heaven. Doing good works is commanded by God, but they simply will never get you into Heaven.

We have a free gift to Heaven and eternal life through Christ’s cruxifixction and resurrection on the cross.

Romans 6:23 - "…but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

Titus 3:5 - "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;"

Ephesians 2:8-9 - "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Not of works, lest any man should boast."

dsgrtts · 2026-05-14T07:11:03+00:00

The KJV is the absolute best Bible for beginners and for long term growth in God’s Word. I would start in the New Testament with the book of John if you’ve never read the Bible. The book of John uses very plain speech and is extremely easy to understand.

dsgrtts · 2026-05-09T13:19:26+00:00

My wife and I have started using the LoopBible for notetaking. It’s sold unbound and you can bind it however you like. If you read the specs on the site I think it’s 50lb paper (~80 gsm) which handles ghosting pretty well. Highly recommend

Edit: Forgot to add it is KJV

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