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God is the biggest failure in the Bible...the reason you've never thought that is because He never said He was one.
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Preterism: Free Preterist Study Bibles
Posted on Wednesday, March 07 @ 08:13:45 PST by Watton |
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The Our Life In Christ web site (http://www.ourlifeinchrist.com), home of the Our Life In Christ Orthodox Christian Teaching Program is offering free Orthodox Study Bibles. This is the most preterist study bible on the market. NKJV translation of New Testament and Psalms with study notes from the Orthodox perspective. As an introduction, according to OLIC: "The Orthodox Church is evangelical, but not Protestant. It is orthodox, but not Jewish. It is catholic, but not Roman. It isn't non-denominational - it is pre-denominational. It has believed, taught, preserved, defended and died for the Faith of the Apostles since the Day of Pentecost 2000 years ago."
The OLIC website is the home of an Orthodox internet radio program hosted by Steven Robinson and Bill Gould. So before you request the study bible be sure to check out the OLIC audio archives (http://www.ourlifeinchrist.com/archives.htm). You can download programs in MP3 format and listen to them anytime. Of special interest to Planet Preterist readers is their four part program on "The Book of Revelation and Orthodoxy" a four hour introduction to end times. Its focus is mostly to educate Orthodox believers, by defining the vocabulary that their protestant friends are confusing them with. Much more is covered including quotes from early Church fathers and an entertaining history of failed predictions of the End. Presented in a chatty format with wonderful musical interludes (especially in parts 3 and 4). The a capella choral singing alone is worth the price of these programs.
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Re: Free Preterist Study Bibles (Score: 1)
 by PeytonLucy on Wednesday, March 07 @ 10:06:27 PST
(User Info | Send a Message) | The Orthodox Study Bible is quite good; I've owned one for years, and have purchased them as gifts for others. It is no more Preterist than the NAB Roman Catholic edition. Perhaps the Oxford English Study Bible is even more Preterist. For example, the generation in the Olivet Discourse is very explicit. All are partial Preterist, not full, obviously.
The Orthodox Study Bible helped end my participation in the Wesleyan denomination years ago. The New Wesleyan Commentaries are very strongly partial Preterist. Yet, almost all of the pastors in my area were dispensationalist. I had an Orthodox Study Bible and was a full Preterist, which was too much for the Wesleyans to endure.
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Aren't Study Bibles Part of the Problem? (Score: 1)
 by plymouthrock on Wednesday, March 07 @ 10:19:02 PST
(User Info | Send a Message) | But aren't Study Bibles part of the problem? Dispensationalism as a theological position has virtually become orthodoxy through the promulgation and popularity of the Scofield and MacArthur Study Bibles.
One must acknowledge that any words, even seeming truthful Preterist words, placed in footnote fashion immediately following the Sacred Text gives any such opinions certain validity and authenticity that it would not have were it placed separately in some other book.
In essence, I am saying that whatever comments we have regarding Scripture are just that, commentary. and are better left for publishing separately outside of the Bible itself.
I am not sure why we as Christians are so compelled to place our interpretations of things alongs side the Script itself. By doing so, we are promoting our opinion (though I believe the preterist position is correct). The Bible is a marvelous book on its own. And commentary in the form of Study Bibles should be left for separate publishing away from the Bible. I believe editor's notes and rendering choices are the only necessary aids that should be placed at or near the Text itself. |
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Bibles (Score: 1)
by JohnRiffe (mail@TulsaPreteristAssociation.org) on Sunday, March 18 @ 11:37:45 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | I am looking forward to the New Orthodox Study Bible that is due for delivery early 2008. Its Old Testament is primarily based upon the Greek Old Testament LXX for reasons the Orthodox have always understood: the extant Greek Old Testament manuscripts date to 200BC, that is, about 1,000 years older than the Hebrew Masoretic Old Testament texts, brought forth 2 centuries before anybody had a motive to alter the Bible to counter teachings of Jesus, the Apostles, & the New Testament. The link to this is here: http://www.lxx.org/##
But if you want a complete, printed, Greek-English INTERLINEAR Bible based entirely upon the Greek Texts, Old and New, there is only one place to go:
FREE Download: http://apostolicbible.com/downbook.htm
Printed Edition, First (a sure Collectors' item):
http://store.septuagint-interlinear-greek-bible.com/apbipo.html
Home page
http://septuagint-interlinear-greek-bible.com/
This is the closest thing we have to the Bible that Paul carried on his missionary journeys. This is a great Septuagint LXX Interlinear (Greek-English) with Strong's numbers. Its actually a whole Bible and helps make the connections between Old and New Testaments by their common Greek vocabulary. FREE downloads!
Why Septuagint LXX? Look at this:
http://www.geocities.com/r_grant_jones/Rick/Septuagint/spexecsum.htm
Well, below here is the contact info for the interlinear Bible I'm talking about. It is comprised of the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint LXX) mated to the New Testament with the English words below each of the Greek all in a traditional printed Bible format, suitable for taking to church, reading, etc. This is important for me because so much more of the New Testament's citations of the Old are from the Greek Old Testament than any other. And the Hebrew texts of today date back to the 800's AD after having been handled by Christ-spurning Masoretic Rabbinical scholars for the first 800 years of Christ's Gospel era. Even the Qumran (Dead Sea Scrolls) manuscripts of Hebrew Old Testament texts actually date to the time of Simon Bar Cochba, circa 132AD, granting certainly enough time for the Christ-spurning scholarly community within Judaism to alter Texts in response to Christian preaching. The oldest Greek Old Testament manuscripts date back 1,000 years older to circa 200BC, before anyone had a motive to alter Texts to undercut Jesus & His Gospel message. I say this because the Hebrew Scriptures as we have received them do not support key positions of the Apostles' message. When one looks to today's Hebrew Scriptures to see how the Apostles quoted from them, we find a tortured discrepancy, discrepancy at key points that gut the New Testament's message & credibility. This discrepancy is often cited by followers of Judaism for their rejecting the New Testament as altogether unfaithful to the Bible of the Hebrews. Here is a link and a quote:
The Septuagint in the New Testament
http://www.geocities.com/r_grant_jones/Rick/Septuagint/spexecsum.htm
An excerpt: "And even if the Septuagint is thick with mistranslation, its errors are frequently sanctioned by the New Testament. For instance, if the word “virgin (parthenos in Greek)” in Isaiah 7.14 is a mistranslation of the Hebrew word almah, Matthew has given his assent to this error. In fact, those of us who believe the New Testament to be inspired by God are required to believe that many “errors” of the Septuagint are inspired also, because they are incorporated into the New Testament directly. If the errors that are quoted have Divine sanction, on what basis can we reject the errors that are not quoted? Or, consider what we imply if we say that the Masoretic text alone can lay claim to being the genuine Old Testament. The clear implication is that the authors of the New Testament were benighted and, ignorant of the truth, used an inferior text. T
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