I Counted the number of Bibles in my Home

[Buttons*]

Well, I have
1) The Gnostic Bible (collection)
2) Gospel of Mary (different translation)
3) Gospel of Judas (not in my big book )
4) two copies of the BOM
5) My boyfriend has a copy of the Bible... so it's "mine"
6) one Isa Upanishad
7) two copies of the Tao Te Ching ... one is the boyfriend's
8) Some Sufi texts

.... it's a rough collection. It's growing though Most of my books are philosophy oriented.

 

[whereismynotecard]

I think my mom has a bible. So 1.

Oh! I also have The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Does that count?

So 2 then.

 

[Man of Faith]

I found out last night that I need to get another Bible because I had to give mine to my son because he can't find his. It was my favorite version too (NLT). However the good news is I saw one in church that I want. It has the KJV and the NLT side by side so you can compare them as you read.

This is good for multiple applications. I can compare the KJV and the explanatory wording in the NLT in real time as I read. I can switch back and forth when I read in public venues and pick the version that best suits the genre. Some churchs use the KJV exclusively and I wouldn't want to affend. I was put in a situation when in one Bible study where everyone had a KJV, and I had to apologize when it was my turn to read because I had the NLT. It is also good to compare different versions when searching for meanings of texts.

 

[slave2six]

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.

So, that's 35 Bibles at a bare minimum cost of $10 each. $350 dollars. That would buy a family of 4 a day at Disneyland or tickets to a Broadway play, or a round-trip ticket to/from just about anywhere in the US (I'd go to Montana personally and chill by some lake for a week). Why waste that money on buying the same book (which you can read online for free anyways)?

 

[slave2six]

I can compare the KJV and the explanatory wording in the NLT in real time as I read.

You have a serious OCD.

Here. You can compare English with the original Greek for free.

 

[OmarKhayyam]

Some behaviors are just not explainable. They defy both reason and desire and can only be seen as a kind of pathology.

When I was a PO the hardest thing for me to understand was heroin addiction. I just not could imagine what promoted that 1st injection. I never did understand it and as a result had no empathy for the addict. I still don't. I wouldn't walk across the street to give one a drink of water.

I have much the same attitude toward the religious.

 

[Caladan]

Lets see

about 6 Hebrew Bibles, 5 New Testaments, 2 Qur'ans, Gita, Upanishads, Buddhist scriptures, Tao Te Ching, the holy books of Thelema, the entire Zohar in 22 volume set in Aramaic, the Enuma Elish with a great deal of other Mesopotamian literature and many other vegetables

 

[Scarlett Wampus]

You have a serious OCD.

Here. You can compare English with the original Greek for free.

Its not obsessive, its scholarly.

Some Taoists I've known who'd probably qualify as some of the least obsessive people I've ever met compare half a dozen or more translations of the Tao Te Ching at once.