you own a bible?

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-04-19 02:26am

Yeah... my mom's pretty big on church, so I have a few 'normal' copies, as well as a "Teen's Bible"... of course, they're all collecting dust... I'd remove them from my bookshelf altogehter, except that the questions that would follow wouldn't be worth it.

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-04-19 02:30am

oddly enough, I read my bible more since I came to sdnet then in the yr previous.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-04-19 03:49am

I've never owned a bible. As for why not, I've never had a need for one.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-04-19 04:06am

My mother's the daughter of a Lutheran priest, so I have a bible on my bookshelf even though I'm not religious.

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2003-04-19 06:21am

I have several (NIV, Amplified, AKJ...), but since i moved can't find them all, so i use my online AKJ

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-04-19 06:23am

i´ve got two and a half. one i got from the church for my confirmation, one i got from my grandmother for my confrimation and the half which is the new testament only i got from some american idiot who was doing a jesus promotion tour in germany.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-04-19 06:23am

I do because it was given to me, and now I use it for fundie debates.

It's the Catholic version.

Ravencrow · Post by **Ravencrow** » 2003-04-19 06:37am

I have a handy NIV version (used to take this to church with me), King James (which my father took from somewhere), and a huge NIV Study Bible with annotations (for that time when my parents and I were in bible study classes).

Darth Gojira · Post by **Darth Gojira** » 2003-04-19 06:53am

My parents have the "Good News Bible" and a very cool encyclopedia(or dictionary, I forget) which is based on actual archealogical evidence. It came out in handy while I was studying the Hittites.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2003-04-19 08:55am

Well, I have KJV, KJV with words of jesus in red, KJV with the words of jesus in red + annotations and notes, NIV, Finnish old (x3) and new (x2)versions as well as Hebrew, Hebrew with English translations, Hebrew with finnish translations, Latin, Deutsch, Swedish and Russian versions and various books with annotations, historical notes Etc about the bible.
I once counted that I have 25 actual bibles and 17 other books about the bible.

I inherited them from my great-uncle, who was a Lutheran priest. He's wife had died some years earlier and he had no children of his own, so his posessions kinda got split up between the rest of the family, I was know to be an avid reader so they gave me all his books, including a whole lot of bibles and other christian reading (I was 16 back then and not yet an Atheist).

BrYaN19kc · Post by **BrYaN19kc** » 2003-04-19 09:31am

Hmmm, let see here. I have one bible and a concordence. I needed them for one of my classes.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-04-19 09:37am

Have you guys not got a Gideons? I was given one when I started Grammar School. I thought they targeted all secondary/high schools.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-04-19 10:21am

I have a Gideon from a few years back...

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-04-19 10:28am

Gideon?

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2003-04-19 11:11am

Everyone has a Gideon Bible. If you don't, they hunt you down and give you one.

BrYaN19kc · Post by **BrYaN19kc** » 2003-04-19 11:13am

Hethrir wrote:Everyone has a Gideon Bible. If you don't, they hunt you down and give you one.

ROFL!

And don't forget, if you resist accepting their bible they will tie you down to a chair, force your eyelids open with tooth picks and make you read it from cover to cover. Heheheheheheh.

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2003-04-19 11:20am

I knew this Gideon - nice enough guy - but every time i saw him he would say, "do you know the Gideons have given out 'X quadzillion' Bibles?"

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » 2003-04-19 12:05pm

I've got a pocket-sized Gideon's NT+Pslams and a full size NIV that has become separated from its cover and several pages. Got given the NIV at a youth group and the Gideon in school, so I've never actually bought a Bible. Got a bunch of Mark's Gospels from out CU mission this year as well.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-04-19 12:45pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Gideon?

The guy who puts the bible in the hotel rooms.

jegs2 · Post by **jegs2** » 2003-04-19 01:21pm

Gideons International is the organization that leaves Bibles in hotel rooms:

Gideons International wrote:The Gideons International, founded in 1899, serves as an extended missionary arm of the church and is the oldest Christian business and professional men's association in the United States of America. A board of distinguished Christian laymen, international in makeup, supervises the worldwide Gideon ministry, ensuring an efficient, economical operation.

On the name of Gideon, he was a judge of Israel, written about in Judges 6 - 8, and the Gideons International website describes him thus:

Gideons International wrote:Gideon was a man who was willing to do exactly what God wanted him to do, regardless of his own judgment as to the plans or results. Humility, faith, and obedience were his great elements of character. This is the standard that the Gideon association is trying to establish in all its members, each man to be ready to do God's will at any time, at any place, and in any way that the Holy Spirit leads.

Here is what the website says of their history:

Gideons International wrote:In the autumn of the year 1898, John H. Nicholson of Janesville, Wisconsin, came to the Central Hotel at Boscobel, Wisconsin, for the night. The hotel being crowded, it was suggested that he take a bed in a double room with Samuel E. Hill of Beloit, Wisconsin. The two men soon discovered that both were Christians, and that John Nicholson, as a 12-year-old boy, had promised his dying mother that he would read God's Word and pray daily. It had been his custom for many years to read the Bible before retiring for the night. They had their evening devotions together, and on their knees before God the thoughts were given which later developed into an association.

On May 31, 1899, they met at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, concluded to band Christian commercial travelers together for mutual recognition, personal evangelism, and united service for the Lord. They decided to call a meeting in Janesville, Wisconsin on July 1, 1899, in the Y.M.C.A.

Only three men were present at that meeting: John H. Nicholson, Samuel E. Hill, and Will J. Knights. They organized with Hill as president, Knights as vice president, and Nicholson as secretary and treasurer. Much thought was given to what the name of the association should be, and after special prayer that God might lead them to select the proper name, Mr. Knights arose from his knees and said, "We shall be called Gideons." He read the sixth and seventh chapters of Judges and showed the reason for adopting that name.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-04-19 01:29pm

Course we got bibles at my house! My boyfriend's a devout Christian. I can count about 8 really big hefty ones on the bookshelf without even turning my head from the computer screen. KJV, NIV, you name it he has it!

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-04-19 02:33pm

has anyone got the aquivalents from other religions?

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-04-19 03:15pm

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Course we got bibles at my house! My boyfriend's a devout Christian. I can count about 8 really big hefty ones on the bookshelf without even turning my head from the computer screen. KJV, NIV, you name it he has it!

I always find it odd hearing about gay, devout Christians...

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-04-19 03:15pm

salm wrote:has anyone got the aquivalents from other religions?

Colin does, go read his post.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2003-04-19 03:21pm

salm wrote:has anyone got the aquivalents from other religions?

I have a Qu'Ran, but I poured a Vodka and Coke on it once while drunk, it's now suger-clued shut.