How many Bibles do you own?

[handy]

The Message is not really a Bible translation, per se. It was written by Eugene Peterson as a DEVOTIONAL. It flows as a devotional. Once people realize this perhaps they will dismount from their bandwagon about it.

People might realize this a lot faster if they would stop marketing and selling The Message as a bible if it's supposed to be a devotional.

But let's face it...it is marketed as a bible, it is sold as a bible and it is linked up in things like Bible Gateway as a bible.

I did hear that Peterson himself is dismayed that people think of his work as a bible and that pastors were actually teaching from it as such. If this is true...(hard to say what might be true and might be rumor)...then I admire that. And, an author of something has little to no control over how his work is handled once he signs the contracts with publishing companies.

 

[handy]

umm have about 10 that I use regularly and have more commentraries and such. I like to study with 3 different versions. it tells me when one version goes off on it's own. Then switch off study bibles to get different ideas on the same text. I do use e sword and blue letter bible alot however that's different than having it in my hand. usually if I spend alot of time looking without finding i'll go there and search things out.. or if I'm looking for text about someone or something I'll do a general search for that name or thing. I dunno can't beat having in my hand as opposed to my on screen.

When I am studying...I'm almost always on-line anymore. I just like the ease of throwing up another tab on Firefox and clicking on bookmarks to compare translations, check out commentaries, search out the original languages...I rarely consult my reference books for study anymore, even though I know there are good things in the reference books.

But, for just reading...yes, I like to curl up on the couch and read with it in my hands.

Our church uses the English Standard Version, and I really need to get down to a bookstore and get one for us and for the two kids...they have their children's bibles, but they are old enough now for an actual translation.

I don't know...I guess I haven't done it because I'm just so used to the NASB and I just don't like the English Standard as much.

 

[Ed the Ned]

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Mat 6:9 Pray then like this: "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Mat 6:10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Mat 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread,
Mat 6:12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Mat 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

- ESV



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The Message: ??




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Mat 6:9 With a God like this loving you, you can pray very simply. Like this: Our Father in heaven, Reveal who you are.
Mat 6:10 Set the world right; Do what's best-- as above, so below.
Mat 6:11 Keep us alive with three square meals.
Mat 6:12 Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others.
Mat 6:13 Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. You're in charge! You can do anything you want! You're ablaze in beauty! Yes. Yes. Yes.

- The Message

Rom 15:13

Oh! May the God of green hope fill you up with joy, fill you up with peace, so that your believing lives, filled with the life-giving energy of the Holy Spirit, will brim over with hope!

- The Message

Rom 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

- esv


I don't even see it as a devotional it is steeped in weird phrases. The Lords prayer is a mockery and who is the god of green hope????

Back to number of Bibles in my house? about 15 some are handed down from my family so are not used for study but have a sentimental value. I enjoy the ESV, KJV, NKJV, and I read the NLT (2nd edition).




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[Rinid]

When I am studying...I'm almost always on-line anymore. I just like the ease of throwing up another tab on Firefox and clicking on bookmarks to compare translations, check out commentaries, search out the original languages...I rarely consult my reference books for study anymore, even though I know there are good things in the reference books.

But, for just reading...yes, I like to curl up on the couch and read with it in my hands.

Our church uses the English Standard Version, and I really need to get down to a bookstore and get one for us and for the two kids...they have their children's bibles, but they are old enough now for an actual translation.

I don't know...I guess I haven't done it because I'm just so used to the NASB and I just don't like the English Standard as much.

yes but doesn't the eaze of finding it online mess with the retention of keeping it upstairs? I like the old way of studing and looking and finding.. if it's to long ok but otherwise I like to seek it out. usually it stays part of me that way.

I hear ya with the ESV. It's not a bad version but I've found that the NASB is usually never off on a track of it's own. means that it follows the orginal texts the closest in translation. That's why if I only use one it's that one.

 

[handy]

Earlier today, whilst the family was at church...

Our church uses the English Standard Version, and I really need to get down to a bookstore and get one for us

Funny how things work sometimes...

I didn't go to church today because I'm still feeling under the weather (wonder if I'll ever get over this respiratory infection...oh well) and when Steve and the kids got back, Steve brought home a beautiful "Lutheran Study Bible" ESV version. Our pastor gave it to him. I've spent a lot of time this afternoon and evening just looking through it...it's really nice and has some great graphics, maps, engravings, essays, devotionals, a really good concordance and of course study notes and aids.

I already had a Geneva Study Bible, which has notes from the Calvinist POV...now we have a Lutheran one...I should get a Scofield's just to round out the field.

I do like study bibles...I just have to keep in mind that all study bibles...doesn't matter which one...come with notes biased to a certain pov. This isn't necessarily bad, one just needs to keep it in mind.

 

[Jakeness]

How many Bibles do you own?

Three.

 

[bigllama]

1 NIV Student Bible
1 Gideons New Testament pocket Bible that was given to me while I was on a trip to Montreal

I also had a NIV Study Bible but I misplaced in my church somewhere...

 

[Bob Carabbio]

Probably 25-30 of 'em. Some are from my family, and some I've picked up over the years. Many are KJV (which is the main translation I've used for 60 years), but we've got the Douay, the New American Catholic, the Living, the Amplified, an NIV, the Message, the Goodspeed, and the NWT that I use often for reference.

 

[elijah23]

I own one Bible, a Revised Standard Version, the same version my church gave me as a seventh-grader back in the 1960s.

 

[Alabaster]

I own one Bible, a Revised Standard Version, the same version my church gave me as a seventh-grader back in the 1960s.

My bibles never last that long! It should be time for a new one, elijah--and don't get a red letter version this time!

 

[matt633]

I have a few KJV and a CEV that I recieved as gifts over the years.

I purchased a NKJV because my church uses that one a lot.

I use the ESV Study Bible by crossway and like it.

Would like an NIV

I use youversion app and the olive tree esv study bible and NKJV a lot on my phone.