I Counted the number of Bibles in my Home

[Trey of Diamonds]

18) Jerusalem Bible
19) New Jerusalem Bible

My favorites.

 

[Kathryn]

One can never have too many books on the 6 wives of Henry the Eighth.

 

[rojse]

One can never have too many books on the 6 wives of Henry the Eighth.

For all his faults, Henry the Eighth had some interesting ideas about what to do with his ex-wives.

 

[tumbleweed41]

I'm 'enry the Eighth I am,
'enry the Eighth I am, I am.....

(Sorry)

 

[Shia Islam]

I counted the number Quran in our home, but I fogot the number now.

Interestingly, our little girl, who is only 3 years old, insisted that she wants a Quran.
She can’t even say the word Quran...But when we bought a Quran for her elder sister..She started the uprising...

The problem was that buying a Quran for her may not be appropriate, seeing the religious sensitivity of the issue, which is related to the respect of the Quran.

I finally bought her a Quran, after agreed with her about rules stating that she can’t look (and turn the pages) of the Quran while she is alone!

For me personally,
Appart from the Quran Translation books I have the following:
1. My main quran Copy...with recitation rule.
2. Quran Divided in 3 volumes; for easier movement.
3. Quran divided into 30 booklets , to be kept in my pocket one a time.
4. Quran with each paragraph highlighted with different colour...for easy memorizing.
5.very small copy of the quran, to be put in my pocket, not readable!
This is in addition to some other copies that I don’t use, some I received as gifts.

 

[fantome profane]

Do they have to be the complete Bible to count

I have one Christian King James Bible, one Jewish Bible, and one New Testament. Does that count as three? or only 2, or 2 and 1/2? (I also have the Satanic Bible, 2 Qurans, and a multitude of other religious texts )

I prefer hardcovers to paperbacks, myself - they are so much more sturdy and durable. Oh, and the pages don't get dog-eared so easily.

I love paperbacks, I always have at least two with me everywhere I go. I toss them around, put them in with my lunch, spill on them, bend them, dog ear the pages, generally abuse and mutilate the. But I love them. The is nothing more offensive to me than a beautiful pristine hardcopy collector edition book that people buy and display, but never read.

 

[tumbleweed41]

I love paperbacks, I always have at least two with me everywhere I go. I toss them around, put them in with my lunch, spill on them, bend them, dog ear the pages, generally abuse and mutilate the. But I love them. The is nothing more offensive to me than a beautiful pristine hardcopy collector edition book that people buy and display, but never read.

Amen!

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

I try very hard not to accumulate any more books than I have to, but I'm tormented by the certainty that if I ever get rid of The Stockman's Handbook I'll regret it some day when I need to know how many acres of soybeans I should plant to support 100 head of hogs, and if I let go The Succession to the Imperial Throne of Russia l'll suddenly feel a burning need to re-examine Maria Vladimirovna's claim to the throne in light of morganatic and unequal marriages. And of course my 1963 Sheboygan City Directory is absolutely indispensable.

One favourite book of mine is the straightforwardly-titled Mathematic, Scientific and Engineering Formulas, Tables, Graphs, Transforms. I originally bought it in university for its tables of integrals, but I get a kick out of all the other stuff it has, like:

- actuarial tables
- a breakdown by percentage of total weight of various parts of the body in a "standard man"
- the boiling and melting temperatures of chemicals and substances I've never even heard of
- a table of floor loads to use for the structural engineering of warehouses by the product to be stored, including things like "buffalo hides in 6-foot bundles"

It even has one section about 20 pages long that's just a random, uniformly-distributed sequence of 5-digit numbers.

 

[Man of Faith]

I just picked up 15 more Bibles from Lifeway at lunch. Wow I love the word of God. To be fare though, those aren't for home.

 

[OmarKhayyam]

That include the words approving genocide and slavery?

 

[Man of Faith]

That include the words approving genocide and slavery?

The Judgement and justice of God is very sobering, and should remind us what awaits us on the other side. I accepted the good news and ran with it. It has transformed my life and I have assurance of Heaven.

 

[tumbleweed41]

And back to the subject of Bible counts....
Found a copy of the BoM I forgot I had.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

I just picked up 15 more Bibles from Lifeway at lunch. Wow I love the word of God. To be fare though, those aren't for home.

You mean they're "outside bibles", kinda like the "outside couch" we had on the porch of the house we rented in university?

 

[slave2six]

My son had a project first day of school to count the number of Bibles in his home. We got to 19, but I'm sure there are more somewhere still packed away in the attic. Anyway can anyone beat that?

Yep. I beat you hands down. I have 23 Terry Pratchett books, five Tolkien's, eleven Orson Scott Card's, seven Charles Dickens', six George MacDonald's, one Gandhi, one Pope John Paul II, two David McCollough, one D.M. Murdock and one Bible in my bedroom. That is, including my Bible, I have 52 works of fiction plus five works of non-fiction.

I'll have to search the rest of the house but I'm pretty sure that I win.

 

[rojse]

Do they have to be the complete Bible to count

I have one Christian King James Bible, one Jewish Bible, and one New Testament. Does that count as three? or only 2, or 2 and 1/2? (I also have the Satanic Bible, 2 Qurans, and a multitude of other religious texts )


I love paperbacks, I always have at least two with me everywhere I go. I toss them around, put them in with my lunch, spill on them, bend them, dog ear the pages, generally abuse and mutilate the. But I love them. The is nothing more offensive to me than a beautiful pristine hardcopy collector edition book that people buy and display, but never read.

I read my hardcover books, thank you. I just take some care with them.

 

[rojse]

Yep. I beat you hands down. I have 23 Terry Pratchett books, five Tolkien's, eleven Orson Scott Card's, seven Charles Dickens', six George MacDonald's, one Gandhi, one Pope John Paul II, two David McCollough, one D.M. Murdock and one Bible in my bedroom. That is, including my Bible, I have 52 works of fiction plus five works of non-fiction.

I'll have to search the rest of the house but I'm pretty sure that I win.

I have twenty-nine Pratchett novels, with seven in hardcover.

Oh, and about four hundred and fifty books.

 

[McBell]

Yep. I beat you hands down. I have 23 Terry Pratchett books, five Tolkien's, eleven Orson Scott Card's, seven Charles Dickens', six George MacDonald's, one Gandhi, one Pope John Paul II, two David McCollough, one D.M. Murdock and one Bible in my bedroom. That is, including my Bible, I have 52 works of fiction plus five works of non-fiction.

I'll have to search the rest of the house but I'm pretty sure that I win.

Do e-books count?
If so I will let you know how many I have.
If not, well, nevermind. :sorry1:

 

[whereismynotecard]

I think my mom has a bible. So 1.

 

[whereismynotecard]

I just picked up 15 more Bibles from Lifeway at lunch. Wow I love the word of God. To be fare though, those aren't for home.

Why would you want so many of the same book? I'm serious. I love The Hobbit, but I only need one copy. I wouldn't want any more. I don't need 30 copies of it. I just need one, so I can read it. It's not like you can read them all at the same time and be a mega bible king...

 

[s.gal83]

I had around 7 to 8 bibles at home. I used to be a christian. So, I used to love to read the bibles. Now, they are just sitting at my house collecting dust. I don't read them, but cannot bear to throw them away.

I tend to respect literature and books.