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Holy Bible, NIV

Holy Bible, NIV

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Don't buy this for your PPC
Review: I purchased this solely for use on my Axim x50v. It doesn't work!! Once opened, you cannot use any of the touchscreen functions. The hard buttons work to go from page to page, but it's impossible to quickly move through the books and chapters. DON'T SPEND THE MONEY IF YOU WANT TO USE THIS FOR YOUR PPC. Purchase the Laridian product.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Not very useful
Review: It is difficult to navigate around in this bible since it uses the Microsoft Reader. If you are planning on just reading straight through the bible, like you would any other book, then this will work fine for you. But if you are trying to use it in any context where you need to jump to different passages (like at church for instance), then you will find this clunky and difficult to use. I wish I could get my money back on this item.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: excellence
Review: No better book to read for life problems than the bible this is a very good bible. thank you

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Bible is the beginning of understanding
Review: Several reviews were blasting away at the Bible and its contradictions and so forth. Consider this:

Since God is a God of Love and since love casts out all fear, anything that uses or promotes fear cannot be from God.

With this simple concept in mind, you can read the Bible, or any other book, and you can easily determine fable and myth from the truth.

The Bible and all religions based upon it are mans attempts to reach God. Often the results have not been the best, but I think it is better that we had these things to at least act as a reminder that there is a God than to not have had them at all.

We can see beyond the ancient stories and the terrible judgments past and presumed for the future and know these are just stories created out of fear. We can also see many truths by Jesus and his apostles and just translate like this...does that statement promote fear or love? If it promotes fear, man put it there. It it promotes love, a man with an inspired thought of God put it there. Simple.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Holy Bible, NIV
Review: The bible is poorly written. It is flooded with contradictions and is not a true book of history by any means. I'm sick of this country running on comforting lies, wishful thinking, and blind faith. It's time for science, real historical documents, knowledge, and atheism to be put in forefront. Amen to that.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Serious problems with the NIV translation
Review: The NIV utilizes a thought for thought translation principle rather than the more literal word-for-word principle of versions like the NASB or KJV.

If you compare the NIV to these versions or to the word-for-word translation in an interlinear, you will notice it often differs significantly. And when does, it will either be because the NIV is not translating words found in the Hebrew and Greek texts, or the NIV is adding words not found in the original texts. And even worse, these added words are not offset from the original God-inspired words by being placed in italics like the NASB and KJV do.

A simple example of the former can be seen in Joshua 1:8. In this verse, the NASB has 50 words while the KJV has 48 words, but the NIV only has 30 words. You don't need to be a Hebrew scholar to figure out that the NIV has left out quite a bit here! And a simple example of added words not being indicated can be seen in 1Cor 7:9. The NIV adds the words "with passion" at the end of this verse without any indication it has done so. Altogether, there are probably thousand of added and omitted words in the NIV. To me, this indicates serious problems with the NIV.

I discuss in further detail the problems with the NIV and similar versions in my book Differences Between Bible Versions.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Awkward to navigate
Review: The problem with this book is that the table of contents is 7 pages long, so to move from one text to another book is clumsy and takes much too long. The NASB has its table of contents in 3 pages, while the bible reader from Olivetree condenses it to 1 page. This makes a lot of sense when you consider that most people do not read the bible like a novel, but navigating around it is a real pain. Also they should put a quick link to the list of books on each page or each chapter.

The NASB is much more user friendly.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: its ok
Review: this book is ok I guess. not sure if the stories are real. had a hard time following some of the material. The author needs to work to develop a story line.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Family Values
Review: This is a wonderful version of the holy book for people who must travel alot and want to have the bible on their lap-top or ebook reader. For those who are strong believers in family values and are willing to expand the potentials of the mother-father man-woman relationship in its intimate areas, I also would recommend the DVD or VIDEO "NEW FREE SEX: step-by-step system for super-sensual lovemaking". God bless.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: NOT GOOD FOR BIBLE STUDY
Review: This version doesn't display which book of the Bible you are reading from at the top of the page.

If you are involved in a Bible class or program it doesn't let you copy and paste different passages and verses to your notes.


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