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"My KJV doesn’t have a study guide. What’s he talking about?? Now my dad had a Scofield reference Bible. But not me. Not most Christians I know. Puzzling ..."

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Wow, you must not know many Protestant Christians then, Springfield Reformer. There are tons of those KJV Bibles with study guides in them out there, and many protestants use them.

For anyone who wants to really know the truth about this (and avoid deception), just do a couple quick searches for yourself.

First, Google king james version bible with study guide and look at some of the tons of results that come back from that search, and exactly what they point to.

Then go to Amazon and do the same.

Some quick examples of KJV Bibles with study guides built in are these:

"The Expositors Study Bible King James Version (Crossfire Edition)"

"The Holy Bible (Including The Jimmy Swaggart Bible Study Guide) (Old and New Testaments in the King James Version, Giant Print Reference Edition, with Concordance and Special Helps)"

There are many other versions like that, but both of those particular examples come from this famous protestant:

Jimmy Swaggart

I hope you know the NABRE now comes in a Bible study format.

Look at a paper copy before buying it. The electronic version I have seems to have just footnotes and not much commentary.

Now the Orthodox Study Bible is good. Their footnotes point out the differences of the LXX.

lol! Well, in my six decades I’ve known plenty of Protestant Christians, mostly Baptist. But I still don’t know any, not one, who specifically uses any kind of KJV study guide. Thompson chain reference counts, maybe, but it’s not actual commentary. Someone gave my son one of those. Just an index in the center column pointing to related verses. I gave up on Bibles with study guides after quitting Scofield’s dispensationalism. I guess there’s still an active market for them. Just no one I know uses them. They would, like me, consider them intrusions, unwanted interlopers on the pages of Scripture.

Bottom line, when I want to know what God says, I go to my Bible. When I want to know what other godly teachers have thought about a given passage, I go look for a good commentary. Or better still, break out the Hebrew or Greek, with morphology tags, along with some good lexicons. But there is no substitute for regular, reflective, reverent reading of the pure words of God in Scripture. All the explanatory notes or catechisms or confessions or language aids in the world won’t do any good if God isn’t right there along side you helping you understand His own words.

Peace,

...those particular examples come from this famous protestant...

Who came BECAUSE of THESE infamous Catholics...

Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.^[1]

Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.

Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy

Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy

Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.^[2]

Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.^[3]

Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony^[4]

Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Popes