If I could stay awake and read the whole bible non-stop it would take me less than three days to finish – about 70 hours and 40 minutes.
70 hours and 40 minutes is 4240 minutes, and 4240 minutes broken up into 365 smaller pieces works out to 11.616 minutes.
Let’s round 11.616 up to 12 minutes. I can read the bible in 12 minutes a day.
If I can find those twelve minutes, the numbers say I’ll be reading Revelation 22 by December 31, 2020.
I think this number is likely pretty accurate. And I think I can manage the twelve minutes. The feeling the number gives me – it’s a low number, and it hints at a kind of uniform, repetitive sameness – is that this project really might be within my capacity. I’ll admit that buried under that slight optimism is my subterranean concern that when I face the on-the-surface challenges of the bible’s up-and-down geography I won’t be using words like uniform, manageable, and sameness. But…what’s buried today stays buried today. On this day all I want to know is what my time commitment will be. And the number is twelve.
Notes: time estimate is from Gene Veith’s How Long Does It Take to Read the Bible? at patheos.com August 8, 2018