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How to Choose a Family Bible

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A family Bible can be a good source of information for Bible study, and it can also record your family's history and be passed from generation to generation.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Acid-free Ink Pens

Step 1

Decide on the size of the Bible. If you plan to use it only at home or to record your family history, a larger size is easier to read and will have a larger section for family history information.
Step 2

Look at the style of pages to record the family information. Choose a Bible with plenty of space to record family births, deaths, baptisms and marriages.
Step 3

Choose a cover and binding that will hold up under the stress of age and handling.
Step 4

Select a Bible that's printed on acid-free paper.
Step 5

Decide whether you want a Bible that has artwork included with the text.
Step 6

Pick a Bible with reference material if it will be used as a study Bible or reference Bible at home.

Tips & Warnings

When recording your family history, use an acid-free pen to help preserve your Bible.

Comments

stoked1 said

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on 3/11/2009 ..whole chapters of the Bible.We have 5 children now, and the oldest ones haven't "grown out" of the New King James we use, an excellent resource published by Focus on the Family - Adventures in Odyssey Bible. There are colourful cartoon pages interspersed in the Bible that illustrate various important topics (the kids love these) and child-level reference information throughout.I'd encourage a family seriously wanting to raise their children well to invest in a Bible that is actually the Word of God, and not a manmade commentary on the Word of God, such as The Message.Even if you could simplify John 3:16 down to grunts, the heart revelation needed for salvation only comes from the Holy Spirit. Faith comes by hearing... ...Hearing comes by the Word of God.

stoked1 said

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on 3/11/2009 I would encourage you to use a Bible that hasn't been watered down or neutralised by multi-denominational teams or worse. The Old or New King James Version and now the American King James (an online revision of the KJV, but with the thees and thous modernised)are all based on the Textus Receptus honoured by the early Christians based in antioch, as opposed to the majority of the modern translations which are based on the Alexandrian texts, corrupted in many places by the gnostic Origen and adopted by the Catholic bishop Eusebius assigned the job of putting together a new testament for the Roman church.I wondered why I could never seem to memorise my much-loved NIV, even though it was so readable and modern.It wasn't until I was informed of the source differences and some of the many glaring omissions/changes of the Alexandrian bibles that I switched to the KJV and was able to memorise wh

jennigrant said

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on 12/29/2008 Lots of Bibles (geared toward teens, women, men, young kids, etc.) on www.tyndale.com. I've been using the One Year series of devotional Bibles with my kids - they really like it - we read them together with the whole family but they keep them beside their beds for nighttime reading. Highly recommend.