Anyone who advises you to give more of your time to the bible than school work is wrong and not doing you any favours. Catch up and keep up with school work, it will help you progress in life so that at a later stage you will be able to spend the time that you want studying the bible. I'm sure your God has enough patience to give you a bit of slack.

truthfully it is a balance. but the more important is the bible. since before the nea people learned how to read and write and do math from the bible. so it is a educational book in those regards as well as other fields of science.

how the heck does anyone think like in the city of Ur they had aqua ducts, running water in homes, and other items. the romans were second best.

If god is so magnificent then why wouldnt god have made us all smart enough to understand the the ins and outs of the universe? Why is god this trivial. Why does god intend for people to live a life just to get to heaven? The simple answer is in fact the the bible is a fictional story, used to ease the infinite amount of questions that human beings had and have, and to deal with death.

BOTH: Use the gifts you have been given and come to understand God better.

I recommend, you take 10 minutes every day ONLY to read the scriptures (preferably the New Testament). And then, maybe 1 or 2 hours of a friday, or saturday or sunday to join a catechesis group. :)

“Everyone that partakes of milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness,” wrote Paul, “for he is a babe.” (Heb. 5:13) To attain maturity, we must become well-acquainted with God’s word, his message to us. Since this message is contained in his Word, the Bible, we should be good students of the Scriptures and the publications of “the faithful and discreet slave.” (Matt. 24:45-47) Absorbing God’s thinking in this way can help us to train our perceptive powers. Consider the example of a Christian named Orchid. She says: “The reminder that has had the biggest effect on my life is the one about regular Bible reading. It took me about two years to finish the whole Bible, but it seemed that I was meeting my Creator for the first time. I learned about his ways, his likes and his dislikes, the degree of his power, and the depth of his wisdom. Reading the Bible daily has sustained me through some of the darkest moments of my life.”

Regularly reading a portion of God’s Word allows its message to ‘exert power’ on us. (Read Hebrews 4:12.) Such reading can mold our inner person and make us more pleasing to Jehovah. Do you have a personal need to schedule more time to read the Bible and meditate on what it says?

Step 5—Vary Your Approach

▪ Reading the Bible from Genesis to Revelation can work well, but you might find other approaches to be refreshing. Here are a few suggestions.

Follow a character. Read all the chapters or books that discuss a particular worshipper of God, such as the following:

• Joseph: Genesis 37-50.

• Ruth: Ruth 1-3.

• Jesus: Matthew 1-28; Mark 1-16; Luke 1-24; John 1-21.

Focus on a topic. Read the scriptures related to it. For example, research the subject of prayer, and then read the Bible’s counsel on prayer as well as some of the many prayers recorded in the Bible.

Read aloud. You can benefit greatly by reading the Bible aloud. (Revelation 1:3) You might even read aloud as a family, taking turns reading paragraphs or assigning characters to different family members. Some enjoy listening to a recording of the Bible. “I had a hard time getting started,” said one woman, “so I began by listening to recorded Bible reading. Now I find that the Bible is more exciting than a good novel.”

Step 6—Meditate

▪ The pace and distractions of modern-day life are not conducive to meditation. However, just as we have to digest our food in order to be nourished, we must meditate on what we read from the Bible in order to benefit. We do this by mentally reviewing what we read and by asking ourselves such questions as these: ‘What have I learned about Jehovah God? How does this apply to me? How might I use it to help others?’

Such thinking allows the Bible’s message to touch our heart and increases the joy we find in reading God’s Word. Psalm 119:97 says: “How I do love your law! All day long it is my concern.” Through meditation, the psalmist made the Scriptures his concern all day long. Doing so helped him to develop a deep love for what he learned.

Step 7—Get Help to Understand

▪ God does not expect us to grasp his Word fully on our own. Even the Bible acknowledges that it contains “some things hard to understand.” (2 Peter 3:16) The book of Acts describes an Ethiopian official who was perplexed by a portion of the Bible that he read. God sent one of His servants to help him, with the result that the Ethiopian man “kept going on his way rejoicing.”—Acts 8:26-39.

You too can profit more from Bible reading by getting help to understand what you read. Contact Jehovah’s Witnesses in your community, or write to the address on page 4 of this magazine for a free home Bible study.

How did you get so far behind? YHVH wants you to get an education. schooling is not about education, but 12 years of indoctrination. That is, they are molding you to their religion. (Evolutionism, and secular humanism.)

School is ultimately more beneficial

"KOMPRESSOR Middle School" > Bible School

"VITAMINS ARE GOOD!"

"NEVER TALK TO STRANGER!"

"BRUSH YOUR TEETH"

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Stay off the internet, then you can do both.

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