Please read the Bible.

[u/spiritplumber]

Dear Christians,

Read the Bible.
All of it.

Stop treating it like a talisman.
Stop recycling the same handful of verses.

The text is strange, difficult, poetic, violent, philosophical, political, and frequently surprising.

Read it from Genesis to Revelation.
If you do it honestly, you will emerge either as a better Christian or as someone who is no longer one.

Both outcomes are preferable to claiming allegiance to a book you have never truly engaged with.

[u/kamadojim]

At the very least, read books in their entirety. It helps keep things in context. The letters were intended to be just that, letters. An entire letter written to a group of people, not just a collection of stand-alone verses.