Why the Bible Project for the 1 Year Bible Reading Plan?

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Below I wanted to get into why I chose the specific 1 year Bible reading plan I did.

Why do a 1 Year Bible Reading Plan?

A 1 year Bible reading plan, whether you've never read through the Bible, or have read through it 20 times, but typically not more than once a year, is highly beneficial for enhancing your understanding about the Bible and your application of the Bible to your life. For more details, see my article on the subject here.

What We Did the Past 2 Years with the Mini Bible College

This year and last year I used a 2 year plan so that I would have more time to study the Bible freely using the Mini Bible College (Old Testament, New Testament), that provides an in depth study of each book of the Bible (180 30 minute videos), with some teachings of 30 minutes for a shorter book and some teaching of hours for a longer book. The biggest problem with that plan is that wasn't directly integrated into the study, so following feedback from others, I don't know if anyone besides myself is actually going to be completing the plan. I have about 14 videos left, so am a bit behind myself at the moment with only 8 days before December 31st.

Alternatives

If you consider alternatives, i.e. what we did last year & the prior year, I'm unaware of anything that is video based that integrates directly into the Bible app for as comprehensive of a 1 year plan as the Bible Project. Many Christian critics of the Bible Project don't provide much at all in terms of viable alternatives to it.

Critique of the Bible Project

As shared above, many Christian critics of the Bible Project don't provide much at all in terms of viable alternatives to it. The Bible Project is a project without anything that comes close to it in my opinion for the purpose of a 1 year Bible reading plan. After 4 years of leading Bible Reading plans without directly integrated video, I am now convinced that it's most beneficial to have directly integrated video content embedded within the plan to assist with application of and understanding of what is read.

I expect that there will be plenty of areas where I disagree with the Bible Project, but I haven't found many yet, but instead a lot of cases of outdated critique and areas where I agree more with the Bible Project than I do with the critics, especially when it comes to the apologetic nature of the Bible Project vs the seemingly apathetic nature of the critics when it comes to apologetics by comparison regarding the issues spoken of in the Bible Project that they are critiquing.

A good portion of the critique of the Bible Project is outdated. Be sure to look at the dates as you're reading things, and keep in mind that some people will take the ideas of others without researching themselves if the initial authors are never corrected. I even had someone do that in response to me when I wrote a few authors of articles. I was frankly surprised at the apathy of writers in updating their articles. Each I wrote to responded, but each was unwilling to update the articles based on the new information produced by the Bible Project that I suspect is in part a direct response to their articles. If you Google "The Bible Project Reviews" here are a few examples produced by the Bible Project that are completely absent from some of the top reviews regarding propitiation & the wrath of God, where I feel that some of the critics of the Bible project could use some lessons from the Bible Project regarding apologetics:

October 26, 2020

Nov 6, 2020,

Nov 10, 2020,

Likewise, with creationist critique of the Bible project, I again feel that a significant portion of the critique about it, and the lengths that they go in saying that the whole project is tainted due to their stance on creation and biblical interpretation, is not warranted.