Comments on How to Choose a Family Bible

Altho i have several translations,I prefer my New World translation of the bible put out by Jehovah's witnesses. In Bible history the reason why most translators made a new bible is to put it into the language of the "common man" to be understood. This translation doesn't have "thou" and words that are not used today.And interestingly Jeopardy said it is the best translation.

I always prefer King James Version. Some others are helpful, too - such as New American Standard. I try to be very careful. I prefer a Bible with a good concordance. But I love using it as something to pass down - not just for recording events, but also for the sake of the next generation referring to the study notes made alongside passages.

..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.

..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.

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