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carol v:
Thanks for the welcome Arcturus and the help gmik. I was interested in remembering Ray's suggestion because I wanted the headings. I have the whole set of Concordant but agree with Ray that he KJV is just so much more poetic. I really liked his example of Psalms 23 in one of his conferences. The Concordant just kind of leaves that one flat. But I love the Concordant for comparison and study. I don't have trouble anymore with the hell/everlasting mistranslations -- I just kind of substitute it automatically in my head.

My current KJV has no study guide at all and I found I missed it. I wanted one that doesn't drive me crazy though like Scofield. I actually like the NIV study guide for a literal guide but don't like the NIV version. The Nelson and Companion both sounded like they have great study guides without too much drive-you-crazy commentary. We'll see. The Companion seems to really emphasize the original texts but also has some "baptist" commentary according to the amazon reviews but the overall reviews sold me on looking at it.

(When I wrote "CRAP!!!!!" one day in huge letters across the Scofield commentary I knew it was time to move on from that one.)

I ended up ordering the Nelson both in Giant print and the regular study version plus the Companion. I know it's silly, but I keep thinking that if the dollar crashes or we lose electricity and the counry is in chaos, I probably will also lose my glasses and need the giant print available for an emergency. That's kind of a joke but only a joke on me. It's probably a combination of my practical side, the worst-case scenario side and the very last vestiges of my end-times brainwashing. I'm sure I've seen way to many post-apocalyptic movies too. Haha. Just watched the original Planet of the Apes the other day but that's a whole other post because I had never noticed how much it makes fun of scripture before.

Anyway, it's great to be back at the forum and I look forward to fellowship with you all.

Carol

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