| Author | Message | ||
| Treasurehntr Registered user Username: Treasurehntr Post Number: 8 Registered: 7-2007 |
I have a great New King James version I think I ruined with SDA underlines and Highlights. I had three colors (Tried to keep it down to three to be less confusing) Pink (for prophecy) Yellow (Salvation issues) Green (scriptures that supported SDA doctrine that did'nt fall into the above catagories) If I thought a verse was extra important I underlined it too. Funny thing is happening. I opened it this morning and some of the highlighted texts just did'nt make any sense. For the life of me those texts did'nt say the same thing they were saying 10 years ago. I recognize now that i had really REALLY bad study habits. I always skimmed over parts of the bible i thought i already knew or had been taught in sabbath school. Ok, so now what? I have a NKJV you could teach a Revelation Seminar from what am I gonna do with it? | ||
| Reb Registered user Username: Reb Post Number: 273 Registered: 5-2007 |
Hmmmmm. I never highlighted my Bibles. I couldn't bring myself to do that when I was SDA even though other SDAs do. I always felt the Bible was just too sacred to mutilate like that. (So does my wife who is still SDA, BTW). | ||
| Philharris Registered user Username: Philharris Post Number: 90 Registered: 5-2007  |
Back when I left, 50 years ago, there were no highlighters. I had a simple KJV Bible with no footnotes. All I ever did was put my name in it. | ||
| Lori Registered user Username: Lori Post Number: 57 Registered: 11-1999 |
I threw mine away when I first found out how brainwashed I had been. I found I couldn't use it to study because my eyes would jump ahead to the marked verses and then make all the previous ones "fit" the interpretation I had been taught. One of the things I found so "odd" when I first went to a Sunday Church was the way they studied the Bible. They went straight through the book reading/studying one verse then the next verse chapter after chapter. The implications of this "realization" are quite condemning to the Adventist system. But you never find out until you leave!!!! | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 3932 Registered: 3-2004  |
Some where along the way I have lost my SDA Bibles. I am glad. Now I use markers and will mark whole chapters about something I just learned. That happens to be the whole Bible. I am just a beginner when it come to Bible study. Diana | ||
| U2bsda Registered user Username: U2bsda Post Number: 502 Registered: 11-2004 |
I still have my proof-text footnote highlighted Bibles from SDA schooling. They sit on a shelf. Occasionally I look at them wondering how I ever believed what I had written in the margins. Thank you Jesus for your grace!! | ||
| River Registered user Username: River Post Number: 996 Registered: 9-2006  |
I done wore my new 34.99 Bible out since I found Adventism, fact is I am on my second one and already the back has come loose from the pages and it's highlighted all over the place, thats pretty bad for a six month old Bible. I have got to get this one fixed or get me a new one and I am comfortable with this one. Anybody know what glue to use to glue the jacket back on? River | ||
| Snaggle Registered user Username: Snaggle Post Number: 16 Registered: 7-2006 |
I have a really nice NIV bible with extra margins for notes but sadly it was corrupted with sda highlighting long ago. It is complete with just about all proof-texting of sda doctrines with notes to jump from one verse to another in order to prove sda beliefs. Even though the highlighting was done with coloured pencils, I can't remove them. Still it is a Bible and I can't bring myself to throw it away or destroy it. I must do something with it though, I would not like to see it fall into 'the wrong hands'. ;) Mike. | ||
| Laurie Registered user Username: Laurie Post Number: 26 Registered: 6-2007 |
I kept my SDA bible, it even has the H.M.S. Richards help notes in the back. I just can't throw a bible away. However, I do not use it. I bought a new one and it has new highlighted areas in it. Laurie | ||
| Laurie Registered user Username: Laurie Post Number: 27 Registered: 6-2007 |
I got to thinking after I posted above, that H.M.S. Bible of mine should have been worn out by now. I have had it for at least 15 years. I guess that fact states volumes, doesn't it? Laurie | ||
| Dennis Registered user Username: Dennis Post Number: 1140 Registered: 4-2000  |
Laurie, My wife Sylvia had a KJV Bible that had all the prooftexting underscored and meticulously notated or referenced by a Bible instructor trainee at Southern Adventist University in the 1960s. It was attractively done in various color schemes as well. It was a special gift from her SDA friend. After leaving Adventism, however, Sylvia felt compelled to discard this Bible as being completely violated by heresies. It was like an Adventist book instead of the plain Word of God. Oh yes, we discarded all our SDA books as well. Our garbage dumpster was so full that the lid would not close. Imagine my struggle to push this extra-heavy garbage toter to the curb for garbage pickup the next morning. While Sylvia and I were enjoying our breakfast the next morning, we unexpectedly heard this huge crash in front our home as our SDA books were being hoisted over the truck bed and dumped unceremoniously with a clashing bang. Admittedly, it sounded like heavenly music. The long, cultic chapter of our life finally went out with a BIG BANG. I wish you could see our Christian library today. As Diana often says, "God is awesome." Dennis Fischer (Message edited by Dennis on July 06, 2007) | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 6227 Registered: 12-2003  |
Dennis, I'm laughing out loud reading your account of the dumpster. I've always loved this story of yours, but with your evocative imagery and the echoes of heavenly music [actually, I always liked that old Adventist hymn!] and the BIG BANG, this post has brightened my morning. Thank you! Colleen | ||
| Treasurehntr Registered user Username: Treasurehntr Post Number: 11 Registered: 7-2007 |
Wonderful idea Dennis!! C A T H U N K!! Colleen, i'm laughing too at the thought...Ha | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 3948 Registered: 3-2004 |
Dennis, That would have been a heavenly choir to my ears also. You do know that God is so awesome. Diana | ||
| 91steps Registered user Username: 91steps Post Number: 160 Registered: 8-2005  |
Thankfully I was too lazy to do much highlighting, but I have purchased a few more Bibles and no longer use my SDA one. My wife and I have compiled a BIG box of SDA books that we do not want to donate anywhere, probably will toss them in the trash. |
