I thought I'd open a dialogue on study Bibles. Get some feedback from you on what you prefer. I have two such Bibles: A KJV Life Application study Bible and the 1599 Geneva Bible. I love both, but I wanted to see what else is out there. I downloaded a study Bible buyer's guide and read it in detail. There were a couple that piqued my interest, but I couldn't decide. So I continued looking. I found an Apologetics Study Bible and was pretty sure this would be the one.

However, purely by chance, I came across the YRM Restoration Study Bible. It is based on the KJV, but it goes much deeper into the original Bible languages--includes both a Greek and Hebrew dictionary. I was sold on this one and ordered it today. Beautiful thing really. Two tone brown leather cover with the Hebrew name for God (Yahweh) embossed on the cover. It also includes some archaeological info and charts of the Harmony of the OT and NT and the harmony of the Gospels. (I'm thinking of getting another to give to my sis for Christmas, but I want to experience it first, share it with her and see how she likes it.)

I'll post something more when I get it. In the meantime, I'd like to hear what Bibles other Christians here particularly like. And why.

"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil."

(Lord Jesus, Matthew 5: 17)

BTW: the avatar I am presently using is a Hubble Telescope photo of the core of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51)

Here's a fun place to check out God's creation

I thought I'd open a dialogue on study Bibles. Get some feedback from you on what you prefer. I have two such Bibles: A KJV Life Application study Bible and the 1599 Geneva Bible. I love both, but I wanted to see what else is out there. I downloaded a study Bible buyer's guide and read it in detail. There were a couple that piqued my interest, but I couldn't decide. So I continued looking. I found an Apologetics Study Bible and was pretty sure this would be the one.

However, purely by chance, I came across the YRM Restoration Study Bible. It is based on the KJV, but it goes much deeper into the original Bible languages--includes both a Greek and Hebrew dictionary. I was sold on this one and ordered it today. Beautiful thing really. Two tone brown leather cover with the Hebrew name for God (Yahweh) embossed on the cover. It also includes some archaeological info and charts of the Harmony of the OT and NT and the harmony of the Gospels. (I'm thinking of getting another to give to my sis for Christmas, but I want to experience it first, share it with her and see how she likes it.)

I'll post something more when I get it. In the meantime, I'd like to hear what Bibles other Christians here particularly like. And why.

"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil."

(Lord Jesus, Matthew 5: 17)

BTW: the avatar I am presently using is a Hubble Telescope photo of the core of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51)

Here's a fun place to check out God's creation

"And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?" (John 7:15)

In the midst of the annual feast of tabernacles, "Jesus went up into the temple, and taught" (John 7:14), and the unique caliber of His teaching caused the Jewish scholars there to "marvel."

Their question on this occasion was how an uneducated man, who had never been taught by the scribes and rabbis, could have acquired such a remarkable understanding of the Holy Scriptures. He had never had formal training in the Word; yet, when He taught, "He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes" (Matthew 7:29).

His answer to their question was amazing: "My doctrine |or 'teaching'| is not mine, but his that sent me" (John 7:16).

There are two factors at work here. First of all, His working knowledge of the Old Testament Scriptures was encyclopedic, acquired in the same way any other student of the Word can acquire it--by diligent and prayerful personal study thereof. He had done this all His life from the time He was a small boy. Remember how He had "asked questions" of the astonished doctors in the temple, and then how He was "subject unto" His parents, and how He "increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man" (Luke 2:46, 51-52). In all of this, He is a perfect human example to us, as we also seek to learn the Scriptures and to grow in wisdom and in favor with God.

But beyond His human understanding of the Word, of course, was His own innate divine wisdom and authority. He was eternal God, as well as perfect man. Thus He not only has authenticated the former Scriptures and given us an example in their study and use, but has also conveyed perfectly to us, through His holy apostles and prophets, the Scriptures of the New Covenant as well.

I thought I'd open a dialogue on study Bibles. Get some feedback from you on what you prefer. I have two such Bibles: A KJV Life Application study Bible and the 1599 Geneva Bible. I love both, but I wanted to see what else is out there. I downloaded a study Bible buyer's guide and read it in detail. There were a couple that piqued my interest, but I couldn't decide. So I continued looking. I found an Apologetics Study Bible and was pretty sure this would be the one.

However, purely by chance, I came across the YRM Restoration Study Bible. It is based on the KJV, but it goes much deeper into the original Bible languages--includes both a Greek and Hebrew dictionary. I was sold on this one and ordered it today. Beautiful thing really. Two tone brown leather cover with the Hebrew name for God (Yahweh) embossed on the cover. It also includes some archaeological info and charts of the Harmony of the OT and NT and the harmony of the Gospels. (I'm thinking of getting another to give to my sis for Christmas, but I want to experience it first, share it with her and see how she likes it.)

I'll post something more when I get it. In the meantime, I'd like to hear what Bibles other Christians here particularly like. And why.

"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil."

(Lord Jesus, Matthew 5: 17)

BTW: the avatar I am presently using is a Hubble Telescope photo of the core of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51)

Here's a fun place to check out God's creation

Looks like I have my work cut out for me. Bible study just moved to a new level for me.

The Restoration Bible came today. I opened the package at my sister's and after we thumbed through it and read of the features, instructions and some of the passages, she was absolutely astounded. The one feature that really impressed her is the use of the original Hebrew names for the Father and Son--Elohim, Yahweh and Yahshua.

Along with the study notes, the Bible includes Strong's numbering system to reference words in either the Hebrew or Greek dictionaries which are provided in the back of the book.

Also included are many, charts, maps and diagrams, biographies of principle people and authors of the books, and archaeological data. Plus there is a lot of information on the history of the original texts.

The primary theme of this Bible is its focus on the original languages--Ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.

Going to be busy with this one.