Biblically Optimistic and Gospel-Based
"For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled." (Luke 21:22)
Posted on 10/22/2008 11:05:19 AM PDT by Gamecock
For Your Escatology Ping List?
Thank you. Our church went to ESV pew Bibles last year. Now I can get a study Bible, too :>)
Ping to a few who might be interested.
I look over study Bibles very closely before purchasing one. The stance of the editors on the Covenantal vs. Dispensational debate is critical in making my decision.
Tommorrow I will post a similar article on the equally important the topic of soteriology.
You betcha.
FWIW the “Reformation Study Bible” is ESV. It was done previously with the NKJV text and titled the “New Geneva Study Bible.” In spite of the Biblical texts consisting of different versions, the notes are the same. R.C. Sproul is the editor of this particular study Bible.
I have the NGSB.
How is the binding???? Call me a book snob, but I hate spending serious book money on expensive glued together Bibles.
to read later.
Well, I don't know some of those guys, but I know Eric Costa. I think his critique of dispensationalism might go just a tad deeper than that. Have you read any reformed critiques of dispensationalism? Vern Poythress is very clear, cogent, friendly and detailed. I have also read what I consider to be the "meat" of the defenses of dispensationalism by Walvoord, Pentecost, Ryrie.
Oh yeah, I’ve read critiques. They’re still often based on the Old Scofield Bible of (is it?) 1906, and they tend to be lame.
I want to read Poythress’; it is on my list. I’ll eventually force myself to grit my teeth through Riddlebarger, but only because it’s influential. Statements of his that I’ve read have me wondering why.
They’re still often based on the Old Scofield Bible
"Classic" dispensationalism (that Oswald Allis wrote about 50 years ago) is alive and well out in the churches. I have heard such whackiness as you would not believe, with my own ears.
"For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled." (Luke 21:22)
I recall sitting in a study once and having a guy start reading from his Bible only to find out it was the classic Scofield Notes he was quoting. I worked with a guy that would give away classic Scofield Bibles by the box load. He said the newer version was full of modernism.
I’ll keep my eye on amazon, you might get a practiacally new one for a penny, Many big book dealers selling books for a penny and they make their profit off of the shipping. Of course the books they offer for a penny are the mass produced books.
I’m a fan of the New Geneva Study Bible. I prefer the NKJV to the ESV.
I must have 20 Bibles easily. I love the notes in my Thompson Chain Reference which I think is the best, but I really don’t like the NASB as well as I thought I would. It’s a dispensational version but the other notes far outweigh that problem. I have an ESV which I like and we use at church but it has no notes which is a real bummer. Alas, if I purchase ONE more Bible I think my wife will throw me out the window.
I love the notes in my Thompson Chain Reference which I think is the best, but I really don’t like the NASB as well as I thought I would. It’s a dispensational version
How so? The NASB, or the Thompson Chain Reference stuff?
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