Hopefully, I not causing dissent or rattling someone’s cage unfairly., But here are two articles I think worth reading, each by a godly woman, who has a heart for truth. Even if it’s hard. Just remember:
I am finding it also true…that one can gleam some truths from many different corners, but many do open you up to questionable doctrines, these are often hard to spot. There is no shortage of false teaching, the Bible clearly talks about that extensively way back in the first century. Just look those up. Virtually every book in the NT speaks to that.
I’ve tended to avoid the highly popular books, the obvious money winners. And for those hungry for good books, it’s often useful to look back many, even hundreds of years to those dusty ones on the library bookshelves…surprisingly many of those are now free as PDF’s…
And Michelle has been saying this about Bible Study for a dozen years…
In my own study, I do pretty well using the old KJV, which I prefer and at times I peek at the Geneva Bible and its notes.
If I need a study guide I use the insights of Old John Gill, whose commentary is linked to my KJV app. Matthew Henry is a trusted resource for a second opinion but a bit harder to search. For people who still follow the minority Critical Text Bibles, the latest one the LSB, appears to be sound at least where there is no controversial underlying text. In the old versions the ESV and the NASB are much better than the NIV, but most of the revised updated versions introduce problematic changes……the NIV is one of the Dynamic Equivalence, translation works and in my observation not a really good one, though I used it for years as the “popular” one that was the “latest and greatest” sold to the churches.
Much is misunderstood or totally neglected in this area…
The book “It is Written”, which I am currently reading doesn’t have any “big” name authors but gives even greater background on the Bible and its importance in an understandable way. Watch the video interview with the editor. Get the Book.
Rainbow Trout 