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The preferred bible for the core course is NASB or NET. I'm curious to know what others are using and why. Are you using a study bible or regular/reference bible?

After hours and hours of research I've narrowed it down the NASB and NET (thanks to the TTP Course Textbooks recommendation) for core course study. I will continue to use my NIV for memorization and plain English reading on more difficult text.

I am leaning toward the NASB over the NET. More specifically I'm leaning toward using a NASB study bible which leaves me wondering. Which, of the many NASB study bibles, I should choose (Ryrie, Zondervan, MacArthur or Life Application). Zondervan is currently in the #1 spot but I'm not 100% sure yet so looking for other opinions and thoughts.

From the Intro to Theology Outline:
Course Textbooks
Grudem, Wayne. Systematic Theology. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1994.
Olson, Roger. Mosaic of Christian Beliefs. Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2002.
Bible (preferably New American Standard or New English Translation)

Thank you,
Jason

They are both very good translations. I like the NASB for it's closeness to the word for word translation, and I like the NET for the translator's notes and the contemporaneous context of the language. I also use quite a few others so that I can get a well-rounded view of what the author's were trying to say... right after prayer, and the lexicons, handbooks and commentaries.

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Thanks for the feedabck.

Personally I struggled several years ago to find a personal bible translation. I read the NT the first time from a Gideon student bible (orange) and I'm not sure what translation it was. Then I went to the KJV for a little while but couldn't get passed the archaic language. While in Germany, a young missionary talked me into getting an NIV like he had, and it opened up the text a great deal and I spent the next year reading the bible again and again. Then a mentor from the Baptist Church I was attending (and the fundamentalists from the church in the neighboring village) started giving me reasons to question the NIV. I spent a few months studying the KJV only controversy intensely, but came away unconvinced in the preservation of the English Scriptures. This is not to say I accepted the critical texts either.

I have settled on the NKJV for personal reading and English language study, but I also compare it to the LITV (formal) and NIV (dynamic). I also became convinced that anything man has his hands on tends to have some sort of pollution in it one way or the other (all translations have problems), so I also use Hebrew/Greek/English Interlinears available on E-Sword that are keyed to Strong's so I have access to the underlining languages. I also use Green's Interlinear as well (not as often though). This has been replaced by the Apostolic Bible Polyglot, which is a one volume Greek/English Interlinear keyed to Strong's and has a Lexicon in the back as well. It is surprisingly readable and is quite small. I have found this to be a nice, well rounded set of study resources. I tend not to use commentaries if I can help it. I used to include an Exhaustive Concordance for the NKJV, but with the advent of computers these are no longer needed. My main computer is a netbook now, so I typically don't even carry a bible with me: just my computer and e-sword take care of everything.

I like using the NKJV as my personal reader text because it is more formal equivalence than the NIV and also follows the majority text rather than the critical. It also serves as a nice foundation, so when someone reads from a newer translation, I can just listen to how they render the passage and compare it to what I'm familiar with.

Lately I have been listening to the Word of Promise Audio Bible, which is the NKJV with music and sound effects in the background. I've loaded this on a ipod knock off and it works great. I have the NKJV bible in dramatic audio that I can carry with me everywhere I go and it can fit in my pocket (and doubles as a camera and video recorder as well).

At any rate, I guess I use the NKJV for the TTP Course.

Hermit

as far as bible gose i us the ESV and it is a good traslashion and it and the NASB every time i tack it back to the Greek or Hebrew it come out right on the NET i have not used

So, to those of you who posted, which course are you taking? The Intro course sets the the foundation for the rest of them...it's excellent.

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I'm still on the intro course. In betwixt other things.
The part that stopped me though, Hmmm... hard to explain. I guess I would call it emptying the cup of all previous understanding to look from the fringe. Like examining a bowl of lucky charms to see if one agrees that those colorful things are actually marshmallows.

Darn, now I want a bowl of cereal.

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I use the ESV and the NET, but sometimes pull out an NIV or even look at The Message on occasion.

TTP is a great resource for Christians. I have been through Intro but have listened to them all on podcast (when they were available on iTunes)

Hi Jason I started that course but have been so wrapped up in Grudem's Systemantic Theology book and the Mosaics one I have not gone back to the origional course as yet.

I tend to use the ASV mainly as this one I already had rather than considering another. When I need to consider a verse deeper I use The Word or Esword software that gives me a good range of bibles but of course have to be on the computer for this.

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