What Was Your First Bible?

[Simonides]

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[IronMaiden]

LatterRain, congratulations on your engagement. I pray your marriage is a long and happy one.

My grandmother gave me a Living Bible when I was a young boy. I wish I still had it. I have another one around here that I reference from time to time. I like the Living Bible, and its got a lot of positives.

However, I just wanted to let you know, that the Living Bible, for all its merits, is not actually a bible. Its a paraphrase, and the work of just one man.

Hi there, @Simonides …. Thank you kindly for that congratulations, but that engagement was almost 50 years ago, and yeah, we’re still married! Since then, I’ve acquired many Bibles, my favorites being the King James and the New King James.

 

[Simonides]

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[Rockerduck]

Well then, it would seem that even more congratulations are in order. 50 years, wow. She must be a wonderful woman. You are very fortunate, but you know that.

I'm right there with you on the bible translations. I was raised on the King James, after I met the Lord I switched to the NASB. I stuck with it for a long while, but a little research on the texts got me back into the KJV a couple years ago.

I'm curious if you have a Geneva in your collection, and if so, what are your thoughts about it?

Have a blessed evening Brother.

I have the Geneva bible copy. I can see why it was very popular. It has the commentary to explain verses built into the text of God's word. Everyone could interpret what the preacher was saying. It takes getting used to reading it. Plus, even older, old English.

 

[IronMaiden]

Well then, it would seem that even more congratulations are in order. 50 years, wow. She must be a wonderful woman. You are very fortunate, but you know that.

I'm right there with you on the bible translations. I was raised on the King James, after I met the Lord I switched to the NASB. I stuck with it for a long while, but a little research on the texts got me back into the KJV a couple years ago.

I'm curious if you have a Geneva in your collection, and if so, what are your thoughts about it?

Have a blessed evening Brother.

sister. Lol! Yeah, he’s pretty wonderful.

No, I don’t have a Geneva bible, but I sure would like to add one to my collection.

May God bless you and keep you and make His face shine upon you all the days of your life, brother.

 

[Simonides]

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[Simonides]

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[doctrox]

I'm curious if you have a Geneva in your collection, and if so, what are your thoughts about it?

No, I don’t have a Geneva bible, but I sure would like to add one to my collection.

The Geneva Bible was one in a line, preceded by the Tyndale and Great Bibles, and followed by the Bishops’ Bible, marking the ascent to the King James Version. After the King James was finalized, revision was of a retrograde nature.

The Geneva, like those English Bibles preceding it and immediately following it (except the Jesuit Douay Rheims Bible), followed the traditional text underlying the King James Version. Historically, the church has always used the traditional Greek text that underlies the King James Version, not the Jesuit text now underlying the NIV, TNIV, NASB, ESV, and Holman Christian Standard. The Geneva Bible, written in about 1560, was used by those people who were exiles from the persecution of Bloody Mary, Queen of England.

The Geneva New Testament was written by William Whittingham. Coverdale also participated in the editing of the Geneva Bible. It had a number of good points. Each verse was separate. This was new for English Bibles and would encourage memorization. It also had many anti-Catholic footnotes.

Some of the areas in which it needed improvement include Psalms 12:7 where it followed the so-called Septuagint (actually Vaticanus and Alexandrinus, etc.) and its denial of the preservation of scripture. In several places the Geneva Bible uses the term “master” instead of “Lord.” In Hebrews 4:11, it had the term “disobedience,” which really should be “unbelief.” The KJV corrected all of these places that could have been misinterpreted as men waxed “worse and worse.”

There are also some amusing words in the Geneva Bible. It was called the Breeches Bible because in Genesis 3, it said that Adam and Eve wore breeches. The “abusers of themselves” (1 Cor. 6:9) were called “buggerers.”

The King James Bible was an improvement of the Geneva Bible, but the Geneva was definitely within the line of traditional text Bibles.