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MisterP

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16. Wiki's also fun for rummaging around in theology

Wed Feb 18, 2015, 11:53 PM

Feb 2015

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_solae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_literalism

that's why we might need more Bible-reading and US religious history--it makes the students realize they're not an "original Christian," they're a premillenniallist providentialist sentimentalist lackadaisical Anabaptist-tinged watered-down Wesleyan whose view of history has been imported entirely from one Victorian amateur who renounced the whole shebang and who're using some excommunicated Adventist to filter all their geology through

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Which bible version would you recommend? [View all] F4lconF16 Feb 2015 OP

I read the Orthodox Study Bible shenmue Feb 2015 #1

I can look them up myself if you want F4lconF16 Feb 2015 #2

I like... immoderate Feb 2015 #3

I've heard about that one! F4lconF16 Feb 2015 #4

Here it is on the internet, along with a version for the Quran and the Book of Mormon. . . Journeyman Feb 2015 #10

Thanks for that edhopper Feb 2015 #12

the Koran can be a quick read Brettongarcia Feb 2015 #20

Well, the language in the KJV was out of date when it was published. longship Feb 2015 #5

That might explain why reading it was so dry. F4lconF16 Feb 2015 #21

I have a modern King James rogerashton Feb 2015 #6

What makes footnotes interesting to you? F4lconF16 Feb 2015 #22

Well, for example, rogerashton Feb 2015 #36

Just about everything is available online.. Fumesucker Feb 2015 #7

I had an english teacher that spoke 16th century English F4lconF16 Feb 2015 #23

My choice Cartoonist Feb 2015 #8

Before I recommend this to him, I want to check: F4lconF16 Feb 2015 #24

Of course! Cartoonist Feb 2015 #29

I have a New American Standard that I like. Qutzupalotl Feb 2015 #9

What is gained/or lost in the different translations? Do you have a link where some of those are F4lconF16 Feb 2015 #25

The Fosterite New Revelation version of 1961 /nt demwing Feb 2015 #11

I know that reading the bible gives comfort to a lot of people. pennylane100 Feb 2015 #13

For both him and I, reading it is an educational experience rather than a comforting one. F4lconF16 Feb 2015 #26

A good place to start any exploration of "The Bible" is Alan Watt's essay. . . Journeyman Feb 2015 #14

Wiki's also fun for rummaging around in theology MisterP Feb 2015 #16

The NRSV is probably the most "academic" translation. Act_of_Reparation Feb 2015 #15

That's probably the one I'm going to recommend to him... F4lconF16 Feb 2015 #28

There are many. Act_of_Reparation Feb 2015 #34

As a former catholic I always use the RSV-CE LostOne4Ever Feb 2015 #17

Forgot about the Jefferson Bible! F4lconF16 Feb 2015 #27

KJV if you want poetry: NRSV or Jerusalem for scholarship. okasha Feb 2015 #18

What differences are there between the NRSV and Jerusalem versions? F4lconF16 Feb 2015 #30

Azimov's NeoGreen Feb 2015 #19

Without knowing a thing about what he writes in there... F4lconF16 Feb 2015 #31

Thomas Jefferson's arcane1 Feb 2015 #32

The Jefferson....the only one allowed in my house! VanillaRhapsody Feb 2015 #33

A woman who passed away left me her PTL bible. (Baker's ministry, for those who don't know.) merrily Feb 2015 #35

The Companion Bible . . . and a Strong's Concordance Petrushka Feb 2015 #37

I use the New Revised Standard Version. hrmjustin Feb 2015 #38

Any of them that have been recycled into coffee cups. AtheistCrusader Feb 2015 #39

I came across an internet forum reciently... stone space Feb 2015 #40

Cheers *clink* AtheistCrusader Feb 2015 #41

The New English Bible: With the Apocrypha (Oxford Study Edition), 1976, is my favorite. hunter Feb 2015 #42