Question of the day ??
How many Bibles do you own?
posted by Greg Hazelrig @ 8:57 AM
9 comments
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9 Comments:
Hi Greg...I own ALL of my Bibles...thanks for the question...was this a trick question...have a day filled with the Word of God...Mike Sahler...
In print... Perhaps 20. And I use them all, and all for different reasons at different times.
But then there's BibleWorks (the BEST bible software, hands down--although I think Accordance may be close). It has, I don't know, maybe 120 bibles. Though I don't often use the Danish, Dutch, or Italian versions. :-)
omg greg, you just had to ask that didn't you?
let's see,
2 NIV Study +
2 Spiritual Formation +
1 New Interpreters +
2 Oxford Annotated +
1 Good News +
2 Message +
1 TNIV/Message +
1 TNIV Slim +
2 NKJ +
1 Jewish translation (put out by the jews for jesus) +
1 Renovare +
1 Living Insights Bible +
2 Serndipity
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19 listed but there's probably more around the house.
That's just evil. I am a bad bad man.
gee thanks greg for bringing that to my attention.
Good question...I didn't know until you posed the question and I had to do a count.
Including my pocket Promise Keepers NIV which I have misplaced (d'oh!), I own a baker's dozen of Bibles. These range from my confirmation RSV to the Picture Bible, featuring all your favorite characters in a comic strip format.
Mike, that's like asking how many dead people are there in the cemetery down the road. Well...all of them...duh!
Let me see if I can come up with the answer to my own question off the top of my head, seeing as most of my books are already packed for my move at the end of June...am I anal or what? :)
KJV
Message
2 NIV
1 NIV Quest Study Bible (I recommend to new Christians)
1 NIV Study
1 NIV Spiritual Formation
3 NRSV (including my favorite that was given to me by my wife for our anniversary just before I entered the ministry. I use this one to preach from.)
1 NRSV with Book of Common Prayer
1 NASB
2 NLT
1 Max Lucado NCV Study
1 CEV
That's 16, but I'm not sure if it's all of them. That was more difficult than I thought. ha ha.
The next one I get, I want it to be a TNIV.
1, and its the one I got from Sunday School when I was in 3rd grade...so its really, really old!
I have the promise of the "family bible" someday down the road. Not looking foward to it as it will be inherited :(
16, if you count The Message, the Picture Bible and the New World Translation, which I don't. So 13.
I usually use my NASB Study Bible.
I own 3 Bibles.
1 KJV (that is the one I use.)
1 that I got at my UMC when I entered the 3rd grade.
1 NKJV that I keep at work.
I also have several Gideon NT, Psalms and Proverbs pocket bibles, does that count? Oh, and I downloaded E-Sword on my computer, but I only have the KJV and the Latin Vulgate translations downloaded on it. Do those count?
a bunch of em.
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