Reciting the New Testament from Memory? (chat w/ Tom Meyer) 

Interested to watch The Great Recital? Head over to the ICR RU-vid channel this week to stream live: ru-vid.com

So exciting!! Wish I could be there! Definitely will tune in …and pray for those involved. Thanks for sharing this!

1 Timothy 4:13 Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scriptures, to preaching and to teaching.

I would like to quote John Cassian’s words as an encouragement to everyone, including myself. “Wherefore the whole series of the Holy Scriptures should be diligently committed to memory and ceaselessly repeated. For this continual meditation will bring us a twofold fruit: first, that while the attention of the mind is taken up in reading and preparing the lessons it cannot possibly be taken captive in any snares of bad thoughts: next that those things which were conned over and frequently repeated and which while we were trying to commit them to memory we could not understand as the mind was at that time taken up, we can afterward see more clearly, when we are free from the distraction of all acts and visions, and especially when we reflect on them in silence in our meditation by night. So that when we are at rest, and as it were plunged in the stupor of sleep, there is revealed to us the understanding of the most secret meanings, of which in our waking hours we had not the remotest conception.” Conferences of John Cassian, by John Cassian (360-435 AD)

Eu não canso estas entrevistas riquíssimas da memorização da palavra de Deus.

It would be so incredible to go and bask in the word like that for several days straight. I am hoping to have a very similar ministry in the near future. I'm hoping by next Summer.

Thank u for this interview! Yes! What a great reminder of the importance of speaking and hearing the Word of God! I love it!!!

I been reading the Bible since 3 months ago it takes time and discipline to read every day almost done .. I'm planning to memorized revelations

Josh bom dia! Todas as as gravações são ótimas. Realmente a entrevista com o homem da memória da Bíblia é excepcional! Gostei demais! Meu caro , uma coisa a tradução aqui nos comentários do inglês para o português não aparece. Se você tem o controle disso por gentileza acione a tradução dos comentários. Mas , está perfeito o seu trabalho. Quero ouvir o máximo deste evento do grande recital. É um sonho que tenho aqui para minha cidade , quiçá no meu Estado de Pernambuco e mais longe no meu país Brasil . Muito obrigado. Sempre aprendo mais e me motivo mais para memorizar as santas letras. Meu progresso é bem lento. Mas, não desisto.👏👏👏

May I ask, for the upcoming recital of the New Testament, which translation will be used? Are they using KJV or otherwise?

I'm sure there are people who memorized the entire New Testament. Just because he didn't doesn't mean no one did or could....

Josh, do you agree with Tom that a person cannot know the entire New Testament from memory? I saw that he had also said that in an interview about this event with one of the major news outlets, and I was surprised. As you talk about in one of your recent videos, it would take a lot of time just to keep reviewing all the material while learning even more. The New Testament is a bit longer than the Pentateuch, and I believe there are those who have memorized it completely throughout history.

Another suggestion, I'm learning Hebrew from a RU-vid channel and website called ALEPH WITH BETH. The course is all in Hebrew so you learn to actually think in Hebrew and not just translate. In addition to that you can use LOCI to memorize the Hebrew scriptures which also helps you learn the language. For example, Genesis 1, in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. BERESHIT BARA ELOHIM ET HA SHAMAYIM VE HA ARETZ. A bear in a sheet then a gold bar then a big L on the hem of a shirt then an 8 then someone laughing HA HA then a girl (she) with a police hat on (mam) a Volkswagen V then someone laughing HA HA then an R on a Ritz cracker. Then use an INTERLINEAR TEXT and you will notice things you can't in English where a single Hebrew word may be translated more than one way in English. The other advantage is you can then easily spot someone even scholars pulling the wool over your eyes. I see this A LOT in the war over Genesis and even though I favor YEC they don't always get it right either. Now, some interesting things about the Hebrew language, we often hear about Bible codes, well most of them are there because it's a book designed to be memorized in Hebrew, Genesis 1 is also a memory palace and that's we often see things arranged in sevens and tens, seven days and within those ten times AND GOD SAID. The original Paleo Hebrew script was pictographic and it's learned by saying the name of the picture, ox house camel door window.... the sound of first letter is the letter it represents and it's also a number so the alphabet is a memory palace and that's the way it's used in Psalm 19. The language has a miraculous construction based on modifications to verbs which are all three letter roots called BINYAN which is weird because that could not evolve it has to be fully constructed when first spoken and that proves the story of Adam and explains why it's called THE HOLY TONGUE. I think Adam knew how to write and 1 Enoch called Enoch the seventh from Adam the SCRIBE. The names of the generations in the toledoth tell a story and that's because they are a memory journey. I would love to see more opinions on this but it just seems so obvious to me now and explains why the Hebrews could be expected to memorize such massive amounts of biblical data just by hearing, included that the one who reads out loud is actually a CANTOR who sings and chants the reading. In the new testament, the church fathers, Papias and irenaeus say Matthew is written first in Hebrew and I think it's designed as a liturgical memory palace and the same with John's Gospel. Revelation also, you learn the visions like watching a cartoon and if hear it in Hebrew and you know the Hebrew old testament it's a memory palace for the entire old and new testament and that is why the reader and hearers were automatically blessed.

Can anyone sit through the intire recital. Like it's a big deal NOT EVEN