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Praise Jesus, I believe I'm going to be famous! I've got THIS false Christian beat by a mile! Why I'd read the Holy KJV Bible cover-to-cover 100 times by the time I was 18 years old. 
Well the old coot sounds like an interesting guy, but anyway, I'm pretty sure that reading all those false Bibles don't count. I wonder if he read "the satanic bible" too? And how can that be an acheivement, to be 96 years old and have only read some kind of Bible 95 times? Only once a year? The old sinner is slacking off. 
I'm going to write a letter to the Guinness people right now! I'll bet some of our True Christian™ Brothers and even some of the sisters have this fool beat. Let's start a contest to see who has read the One True Bible (KJV1611) all the way through the most number of times.
How many times have YOU pleased Jesus by reading His favorite book?
Reading Bible 95 times should be OK for Guinness
Some people swallow swords. Others climb mountains. Or they go in for a record number of tattoos.
John Buchweitz of Langdon, N.D., reads the Bible. Today is his 96th birthday, and he lays claim to having read the whole Bible, clear through, 95 times during his long span of life. He would really like to be in the Guinness Book of World Records for reading the Bible so many times - if only he knew how to get there.
He knows for sure that you have to show proof for your claims. So, he documents all of the reading that he does as he sits by a window of Maple Manor where he is a resident. He showed me notes he has written in the Bible that say he started reading it for the 95th time in his life in April of this year. He finished the Good Book in 12 days by reading five hours a day. And he was reading 150 pages a day. The notes he has kept say that each page had an average of 420 words and that he would read a page in two minutes. He was reading a King James version of the Bible that has 1,834 pages.
Buchweitz has read various versions of the Bible throughout the 9½ decades of his life. In his youth, he read the Bible his parents brought from Germany. He grew up on a farm near Dresden, N.D. He was the youngest of 12 children and is the only one left of his family. He says he went a few years to a country school. He spent most of his life as a bachelor farmer. A Lutheran. He grew oats, barley and wheat. He tended cattle and read the Bible as seasons would come and go
He was wearing an orchid shirt with maroon suspenders when I met him one afternoon in Langdon. He has been at Maple Manor for several years now. In years gone by, he would go regularly to the church at Dresden, N.D., to join in the singing with his rich voice or he would recite poetry.
He is a pleasant, agreeable gentleman with a good head of white hair and a white beard. He was sitting near a window in the lounge area of Maple Manor when I met him. I learned about him from Rita Maisel, who writes a column every week for the Cavalier County Republican newspaper in Langdon and plays the piano once a month for services at Maple Manor.
Buchweitz enters into activities at Maple Manor. He especially enjoys the bingo games. As he makes his way down a corridor in his wheelchair, he counts the number of tiles in his wing of the building. He will tell you there are 100 of the 12-inch tiles between the social area of Maple Manor and his room, which faces out to Highway 5. And inside the room he shares with another resident, he often watches the cars go by on state Highway 5. He marks down how many go by in 10 minutes and gauges how many pass in a day. “You would be surprised,” he says, “how many there are.”
Buchweitz has read a variety of Bibles during his lifetime. He has read the Mormon and Jehovah's Witness Bibles and other versions. “Saturday,” he says, “is generally my day to read the Bible. That is my Sabbath because it is the seventh day.”
He will tell you the shortest verse in the Bible is John 11:35 where it says, “Jesus wept.” And the second shortest is found in Luke 17:32, where it says, “Remember Lot's wife.” The longest word, he tells you is “Ma-her-shal-al-hash baz” found in Chapter 8, Verse 1 of Isaiah.
Buchweitz finds it hard to believe everything he reads in the Bible. It seems to him there are so many prophecies - especially in the book of Revelations - that he wonders if some of them haven't already happened.
Still, he clings to “The Old Rugged Cross,” which is one of his favorite hymns. And he can recite in a beautiful strong voice all of the words to “The Night Before Christmas.” He knows verbatim some readings including, “The Passing of the Outhouse.”
Some people swallow swords. Others climb mountains. Or they go in for a record number of tattoos.
John Buchweitz of Langdon, N.D., reads the Bible. Today is his 96th birthday, and he lays claim to having read the whole Bible, clear through, 95 times during his long span of life. He would really like to be in the Guinness Book of World Records for reading the Bible so many times - if only he knew how to get there.
He knows for sure that you have to show proof for your claims. So, he documents all of the reading that he does as he sits by a window of Maple Manor where he is a resident. He showed me notes he has written in the Bible that say he started reading it for the 95th time in his life in April of this year. He finished the Good Book in 12 days by reading five hours a day. And he was reading 150 pages a day. The notes he has kept say that each page had an average of 420 words and that he would read a page in two minutes. He was reading a King James version of the Bible that has 1,834 pages.
Buchweitz has read various versions of the Bible throughout the 9½ decades of his life. In his youth, he read the Bible his parents brought from Germany. He grew up on a farm near Dresden, N.D. He was the youngest of 12 children and is the only one left of his family. He says he went a few years to a country school. He spent most of his life as a bachelor farmer. A Lutheran. He grew oats, barley and wheat. He tended cattle and read the Bible as seasons would come and go
He was wearing an orchid shirt with maroon suspenders when I met him one afternoon in Langdon. He has been at Maple Manor for several years now. In years gone by, he would go regularly to the church at Dresden, N.D., to join in the singing with his rich voice or he would recite poetry.
He is a pleasant, agreeable gentleman with a good head of white hair and a white beard. He was sitting near a window in the lounge area of Maple Manor when I met him. I learned about him from Rita Maisel, who writes a column every week for the Cavalier County Republican newspaper in Langdon and plays the piano once a month for services at Maple Manor.
Buchweitz enters into activities at Maple Manor. He especially enjoys the bingo games. As he makes his way down a corridor in his wheelchair, he counts the number of tiles in his wing of the building. He will tell you there are 100 of the 12-inch tiles between the social area of Maple Manor and his room, which faces out to Highway 5. And inside the room he shares with another resident, he often watches the cars go by on state Highway 5. He marks down how many go by in 10 minutes and gauges how many pass in a day. “You would be surprised,” he says, “how many there are.”
Buchweitz has read a variety of Bibles during his lifetime. He has read the Mormon and Jehovah's Witness Bibles and other versions. “Saturday,” he says, “is generally my day to read the Bible. That is my Sabbath because it is the seventh day.”
He will tell you the shortest verse in the Bible is John 11:35 where it says, “Jesus wept.” And the second shortest is found in Luke 17:32, where it says, “Remember Lot's wife.” The longest word, he tells you is “Ma-her-shal-al-hash baz” found in Chapter 8, Verse 1 of Isaiah.
Buchweitz finds it hard to believe everything he reads in the Bible. It seems to him there are so many prophecies - especially in the book of Revelations - that he wonders if some of them haven't already happened.
Still, he clings to “The Old Rugged Cross,” which is one of his favorite hymns. And he can recite in a beautiful strong voice all of the words to “The Night Before Christmas.” He knows verbatim some readings including, “The Passing of the Outhouse.”
I'm going to write a letter to the Guinness people right now! I'll bet some of our True Christian™ Brothers and even some of the sisters have this fool beat. Let's start a contest to see who has read the One True Bible (KJV1611) all the way through the most number of times.
How many times have YOU pleased Jesus by reading His favorite book?
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