Best Bible To Read?

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2005-12-09 03:49pm

How about the Gideon Bibles? They have deleted almost all of the Old Testament. They just have the NT, Psalms and Proverbs. Save you a lot of headache.

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2005-12-09 04:31pm

Certainly not what you're looking for, but I happen to be a fan of The Brick Testament, and would recommend it to anyone wanting to familiarize themselves with the specifics of the Bible without slogging though a sanctimonious, nitty-gritty writing style.

Jew · Post by **Jew** » 2005-12-09 04:34pm

Darth Servo wrote:How about the Gideon Bibles? They have deleted almost all of the Old Testament. They just have the NT, Psalms and Proverbs. Save you a lot of headache.

You were probably just making a joke, but the Gideons do distribute full Bibles as well as New Testaments. The Gideons use the King James Version almost exclusively.

Gideons International

EmperorSolo51 · Post by **EmperorSolo51** » 2005-12-09 05:39pm

Darth Wong wrote:I honestly think you'd be better off with the New International Version (NIV), Wayne. The KJV is really hard to read because of that annoying Shakespeare-style use of language. You will often have to read passages twice in order to figure out what they're saying.

I would also like tos ay that the Best Catholic Bibles to pick Up would be the New Jerusalem Bible which has excellent Footnotes, better than the the New American bible which is a indirect alteration of the Catholic Edition of the New Standard Revised Bible. If you really are into it, I'd suggest the Douy-Rheims Bible or the The Bibles that Opus Dei prints out which has the text in Greek, Hebrew, English, and latin.

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2005-12-10 12:17am

Darth Wong wrote:I honestly think you'd be better off with the New International Version (NIV), Wayne. The KJV is really hard to read because of that annoying Shakespeare-style use of language. You will often have to read passages twice in order to figure out what they're saying.

Understood. Do you still see the references from which centuries of written word come from?

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2005-12-11 06:08pm

Lord Poe wrote:Understood. Do you still see the references from which centuries of written word come from?

It comes down to the distributer and how much you want to pay. A basic bible with the books only, no commentry, maps, dictionary etc will be cheap, but the more work in it in addition to the basics will cost.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2005-12-12 11:41pm

Try Thomas Jefferson's bible. He brought to the Scriptures what they had desperately needed for millenia: heavy editing. Cut out the entire OT, everything in the NT after the Gospels, and deleted the miracles and redundant/contradictory passages of the NT while unifying the Gospels into a single text. The thing actually makes a lick of sense after all that.