I guess my point is we all see through a glass dimly. IMHO I feel saying I don't know is a good thing.
Gwarsh, Blush, Am humbled and honored.
I agree, we certainly all see through the glass dimly.
That’s one reason I get annoyed with so many experts who assert emphatically that XYZ
WILL happen . . . .
God seems to have a treasured hobby of surprising even His kids.
You wrote: “I do in fact use Ryrie’s Study Bible NASV. ____I like a lot of his notes____...”
How to choose a study Bible
http://www.equip.org/articles/how-to-choose-a-study-bible
Read the introduction.
Introductions and outlines differ in thoroughness and length, but introductions can also differ in perspective.
If the Bible has ___notes___, they often betray an alignment with a __particular__ theological or critical approach to the text.
The notes in the Scofield and Ryrie Bibles are conservative, but they are also dispensational.
Schofield and Ryrie ___emphasize___ distinctions between Isreal and the church and literal fulfillment of prophecy
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Ryrie Study Bible (Moody, 1976 [NT], 1978; Expanded Edition, 1994) KJV, NASB, NIV
The Ryrie Study Bible can be characterized as the Scofield Reference Bible for the end of the twentieth century. Though Ryrie is an advocate of dispensationalism like Scofield, he does not promote it as emphatically. Notes contain explanatory, historical, and cultural information as well as doctrinal insights. The expanded editions of 1994 incorporated additional notes and many in©\text graphics and maps to the classic text. Unique to this study Bible is its 22©\page .Synopsis of Bible Doctrine,. which outlines major elements of theology and lists the interpretations of several major systems at each point. Available in three of the top five translations, the Ryrie Study Bible has a strong following among evangelicals
Scofield Reference Bible (Oxford, 1909, 1917) and New Scofield Reference Bible (Oxford, 1967) KJV, NIV, NASB, NKJV
Perhaps no study Bible has been so widely used or so strongly criticized as the Scofield Reference Bible. Its wide use results from its excellent organization, its high view of the inspiration and unity of Scripture, and its interpretive scheme. The interpretive scheme, dispensationalism, has also generated most of its criticism. Critics of dispensationalism feel it cuts the Bible into too many pieces, teaches different ways of salvation, and wrongly expects a literal future fulfillment of prophecies relating to Israel. Nonetheless, Scofield retains a strong following among conservative evangelicals.
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“Scriptures” are what fundamentalist dispensationalists think Scofield’s notes are. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2361127/posts?page=17#17