How many Bibles do you have?   

Think I'm gonna pray that you feel a need for one again. ;) But the choice is yours. I'm sorry to hear you weren't touched by the literary beauty of the KJV, if nothing else. A book that's the world's best seller of all time can't be all bad.

I agree with you on yhis Jimbo.
I also think its also down right rude for the
original poster to suggest praying for Jimbo.
Atheists dont need or appreaciate overbearing
people like you.Believe what you want,but keep
it to your self.

Yep, that's a ton of them, all right! :)

Thanks for reminding me, I forgot about my copy of Jimmy Swaggart's "Expositors" Bible; also The New English Bible and Tyndale's New Testament.

I agree about having a good Concordance and Bible Dictionary, as well as other helps. There are some good Bible research tools online, too.

It sounds like you use yours like I use mine, except I use the KJV daily and check it with the NIV and sometimes the Message to get a broader sense of some things.

Yes, I do realize how blessed we are. I can go into almost any book store and buy a Bible. I have given away Bibles and no doubt will again.

Another good online study source is blueletterbible.org It has several translations you can compare as well as dictionary, commentaries and other study tools.

Want my Living Bible? :) I've had it for years and it's hardly broken in. I just don't read it much.

Thanks for the offer Peavey but I am okay with the Bibles that I have.

Good questions! I find that the Bibles are not all that much different, but some will explain some things better than others. When I come across something that seems contradictory in a different Bible version, I pray about it, and sometimes I just have to leave it alone.

It's like the different denominations in the Christian church... which one is absolutely right in all its doctrine? None of them.

If we would be afraid to give an answer to those who ask until we were absolutely, positively sure that we were 100% right, most of us would keep our mouths shut tight and the rest of us would be opinionated fools.

The only exception is knowing Christ and Him crucified. That's the heart of our faith and must never be compromised. The rest... there's too much we don't know and we should never pretend that we do.

I have found copies of the KJ. version with commentaries written by main line evangelist that changed the whole meanings as what the line of scripture was saying which would drag a reader over to his denomination I'd say that was quite different. Through studying the history of Christianity it will show you where the denominations started and why and by who, which will definitely help someone understand more truth as to who's who and whats closer to being right.

I think you have to be a lot more careful with commentaries than you do with Bible translations. But it's always smart to check with the Holy Spirit before believing anything.

when we read the commentaries we can judge them because these we know are suggestions of men, but when it comes to the scriptures translated this is a lot more serious because this is supposed to be our instructions to life, written through the inspiration of the Spirit, wouldn't it be nice to have the original copy of the new testament as we do the old. Why was it possible for the old testament to be kept and handed down by the Jewish nation, in which you can get to this day a copy of the original it might cost anywhere from $5000 to $50,000, but the new Testament we only have what was canonised by Constantine and why he never kept the originals for us to compare, or do they have them, I know no one can check their library which is extravagant.

I have one that I carry with me when I go somewhere it's needed, too. It's 32 years old and falling apart but I can find what I want in it. The rest of them have it all in the wrong place. ;)

Just had to add -- I LOVE BibleGateway.com!!! I use them all the time. I even have their verse-a-day on my blog.

I just received my parent's Bibles so now I have 10 plus 1 Spanish Bible ( can't read it well but its cool to have )