Jimbob7,

What if reading the whole bible is the problem?  What if the bible was never meant to be read as a whole?  What if the bible is a collection of vastly differing human experiences with a common God?

What if the bible is, form Genesis to Revelation, a continuous, undeviating repetition of God’s creative engagement with humanity no matter our spiritual plight, for which God has taken full responsibility (Genesis 3:10-15)?  

What if the bible is summed by Jesus, God’s son and humanity’s creator become genetically bonded with the creation, affirming us in His death while we remain his enemies every time we doubt God’s grace by seeking to know good and evil for ourselves?  

What if our personal attempt to know good and evil denies the everlasting Gospel declared by the First Angel of Revelation 14 and evidences a clinging to Babylon’s hybrid salvation after Babylon’s collapse?  

What if persistence is the antithesis of the patience of the saints?