Does anyone actually read the bible?

It hit me at the end of my first year of dedicating my life to Jesus, I wondered ... does anyone actually read the bible? ... Because it seemed to me, being a new believer, that many people were just relying on what they have been taught their whole lives without actually examining the Word of God themselves to see if what they have been taught it's true. 

I came to this realization when I read the entire bible for the first time on a one year bible plan. I was actually SHOCKED at some of the things I read because they completely contradicted many things I was taught my entire life. And we know that the bible is 100% right, so that means everything I was taught that contradicted it was wrong! Another thing that surprised me was how completely awesome reading the bible is! I thought it would be boring, or I wouldn't like it (because I'm more of a visual person so it's hard for me to read a lot), but that wasn't the case at all!

I was mesmerized by the stories of Jonah and Joseph and even the laws in the old testament are so interesting! Another thing that surprised me is that the movie "10 commandment" or "The Prince of Egypt" isn't really that close to what the bible says as I would have liked.

Last week while witnessing, I met a young man and asked him how to get to heaven. He looked kind of shocked and wasn't able to answer. I said 'what if I had 2 minutes to live and was pleading with you to help me into heaven", He finally said "I will pray for you!" I told him that won't help me at all. He then said that he actually teaches CCD classes to students. I was pretty shocked and told him that the bible says "Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly."- James 3:1

And that if he was telling the wrong thing to children about God, then he would be judged more strictly, and that if I was telling him the wrong thing then I would be judged more strictly as well. And he said that he was afraid... 

So folks reading this, I hope you know that I take sharing the gospel seriously, and if I have said anything in anyway that does not point to Jesus dying for our sins please call me out! PLEASE correct me, please yell at me or do anything you can to fix it, because I will be judged more strictly than others and that terrifies me! As it should!

To the left is a photo of two girls I got to witness to :) Please pray for them <3 God bless!