I guess just about anyone can sell it… A quick search on Amazon for the text “holy bible” yielded 18,521 hits. Weird.
I wonder if any of those folks actually make money selling them? I have this funny image of a combination of the collector mentality and bibles. “Did you get the Archeron special edition bible with the stainless steel covers?”
Or even the bible buyers guide listing prices for each edition and make. (I’m making a reference to the Overstreet price guide for comic books for those who don’t know about the comic book world.)
if you wanted someone to follow a religion you wouldnt really sell it to them ha ha funny how people will pay for things that they think will give there life meaning
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon - 16 March 2011 09:48 AM
I wonder if any of those folks actually make money selling them?
If they didn’t, I don’t think anybody would bother printing them.
Well, there you go being all reasonable! Yes, that makes sense.
I wonder how folks decide which version to buy? I also wonder how different they are? Not that I plan (or expect anyone else) to put any effort into investigating such questions.
HarryC, no need to research. In my case, I just asked someone who read the bible every day. That was about 27 years ago when I was working at IBM. Life was shitting on me and I wanted to react effectively (e.g., no drug dependence). Gave religion a sincere effort. I just couldn’t believe. Still, it was a growth experience that led me to humanism, reason, and peace.
I was too. The various versions confused me so I asked a bible-thumper at work which one to buy. You wonder how folks decide which version to buy. That’s how I did it.
I was too. The various versions confused me so I asked a bible-thumper at work which one to buy. You wonder how folks decide which version to buy. That’s how I did it.
For a lot of people here where I live, it’s the King James Version or nothing. Don’t waste your time trying to point out any known errors in translation. As far as these types are concerned, there is none.
Since I have an interest in technical Biblical scholarship from the perspective of historical studies, but I am not able to read ancient Hebrew, Aramiac, or Koine Greek, I try to find the most accurate translation that I possibly can. At the moment, that would be the New Revised Standard Version and/or the annotated edition of The New Jerusalem Bible.
If somebody knows of a better translation, I would love to hear of it.
Either this Bible or that, they are all 98% the same. The words have varied since the oral start, the parables have varied, the books have varied, the language has varied, the combination of all that has varied, so with all that variety whether one copy or another, what does it matter? It doesn’t. And if people knew that the Bible wouldn’t sell, but they don’t and so it does sell. Frankenstein’s book it is, why choose the color red over the color green, the choice is as arbitrary as choosing one Bible or another.
To raise your spirit to the heavens, set your soul on fire with Elvis, take a walk on the Wild Side with Lou Reed, taking a trip to a club in North Soho with Ray Davies, that Brimstone And Fire gospel of Cyndi Lauper teaching, ... who wouldn’t rather listen to some modern fiction about the irresistible attraction to the wild side, rather than those nasty old stories of ancient unknowns?
Either this Bible or that, they are all 98R the same. The words have varied since the oral start, the parables have varied, the books have varied, the language has varied, the combination of all that has varied, so with all that variety whether one copy or another, what does it matter? It doesn’t.
and yet ..each is inerrant, the inspired WORD of ‘god’.
Either this Bible or that, they are all 98R the same. The words have varied since the oral start, the parables have varied, the books have varied, the language has varied, the combination of all that has varied, so with all that variety whether one copy or another, what does it matter? It doesn’t.
and yet ..each is inerrant, the inspired WORD of ‘god’.
Where’s the like button when you need it?
People keep saying the ‘word’ of gawd. Wouldn’t it be grammatically correct to say the ‘words’ of gawd?
Other spelling errors: God is good… no no no that’s too many oh’s, God is god. The Devil is evil… no no no that’s missing a dee and an ay, the Devil is a devil. The circular statements are appropriate for Bible.
Yes, that makes sense.
