you own a bible?

[Enforcer Talen]

why or why not?

[Darth Wong]

why or why not?

Yes. My wife owns several from her Christian days. Actually, to be honest, they don't come in useful even for the purpose of criticism. You can always find whatever you want faster with biblegateway.com than by searching through a printed version.

[Dalton]

Bibles in the house. My (mother's) family is Italian so we were raised Catholic.

[Dalton]

Yes. My wife owns several from her Christian days. Actually, to be honest, they don't come in useful even for the purpose of criticism. You can always find whatever you want faster with biblegateway.com than by searching through a printed version.

I prefer the Skeptic's Annotated Bible myself.

[Joe]

I don't personally own one, but when I'm away at school I can just go and bum one of one of the fundies in my hall.

[GrandMasterTerwynn]

why or why not?

I own one of those books, yes. And it was sort of . . . permanently borrowed from the Sunday school of one of the local churches.

[Exonerate]

Yes. Good reference, esp for debates...

[GrandMasterTerwynn]

why or why not?

I own one of those books, yes. And it was sort of . . . permanently borrowed from the Sunday school of one of the local churches.

And why do I own it? Because I do. It was useful when I was taking a Bible as literature course in high-school. But, for debates, Skeptic's Annotated Bible is much, much better.

[Spanky The Dolphin]

At home we have several, somewhere between 5 and 10, I think. A few are antiques.

In my dorm I have a copy of the Oxford Study Bible which is the Revised English Bible with the Apocrypha. It was for my Judeo-Christian Tradition course last year.

It's pretty good with a lot of notes, commentary, summaries, etc...

[Temjin]

Yes, I own 2 or 3.

Their from a few years ago when my parents were trying to raise me as a Christian.

It didn't exactly work.

[Sea Skimmer]

I have one and its on my book shelve, helps keep the row from tipping over.

[Mitth`raw`nuruodo]

I have 1, i tried to read through it like you would a normal book, but it doesn't exactly work (try figuring out Psalms in relation to rest of the book's timeline)

[jegs2]

Have a few copies. One is the NKJ, which is on my Handspring Visor Prism. Another is a NIV study Bible, broken down for every day of the year, called the One-Year Bible (have read that version twice). Another is a marriage study Bible with notes for my wife and me (also NIV -- see a pattern here yet?). Another is a very worn copy of the NIV. Have one New Century Version that my mom & dad gave me when I graduated high school. Another is a German bible that my sister gave me years ago, when I had a German girlfriend, but since I don't know German, I haven't read it. And finally, I have the PC Bible, which contains four versions, and some of you have seen me quote from it here on the forum.

[KhyronTheBackstabber]

We've got two bibles in the house. One is real old; it belonged to my Great Grandmother. Its front and back covers are made out of wood. Unfortunately it's over 110 years old, and the binding is falling apart. It's still a pretty cool antique.

[Frank Hipper]

There's a couple in the house, including my great-grandmother's 1886 copy in German, but I personally don't have one. Never felt the need.

[aphexmonster]

I have 33 pocket bibles from my school. Some mormans were passing them out... so i started collecting

[Ghost Rider]

Quite a few...I collect them from motels and hotels I stay from Con-con(sorta like match books).

So around...90-100 currently.

[Gil Hamilton]

Yeah, I got one when I was confirmed.

[Zaia]

No, although I should get one, since I collect fairy tales.

[Darth Garden Gnome]

I've got one gathering dust downstairs, next to all my mom's sci-fi books. I don't think I've shoved it out of the shelf in all these years, either.

[Enforcer Talen]

I have 33 pocket bibles from my school. Some mormans were passing them out... so i started collecting

I find this utterly hilarious for some reason.

I have a bible and quick verse book in my room - there is a bookcase of bible based therapy books in my hallway (o_O) and assorted encyclopedic references and bibles around.

[Raxmei]

Two. One belongs to my father from when he attended church in Massachusetts for some reason. The other is a KJV I had to get because my English teacher made the class read the book of Genesis from specifically the King James Version. I used to have the E-book on my hard drive but it got deleted.

[Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi]

I have two in the house, one of them an antique.

[The Yosemite Bear]

Yes, but I also own a "Gita", a "Tulmud", "Orthodox version", "Roman Catholic version", "Koran", Crowley, GF Gergeiff, Spiral Dance/Book of Shadows (Wiccan), and others.

I am a firm beliver in equal time for differing viewpoints...

[Master of Ossus]

Sure. I use it for literary references, frequently. Mine is a really good one that also includes several books of the apocrypha, with additional resources for students and references to other Christian religious texts.