Featured Dake's Annotated Reference Bible

Soooo... Dake's Bible is pretty interesting.

Has anyone been able to use this Bible as their primary Bible, without getting all hung up on issues that they don't agree with? Or does anyone agree with most or all of the notes?

Pros:

1. It comes in large print with a modern crisp font (my eyes are too weak for regular print and light text)
2. It has a lot of notes, and the lists are interesting
3. Concordance
4. Greek and Hebrew

Cons: I'll let other people have the fun of listing those

Dispensations: The Dispensation of Grace starts in Matthew 3, which sounds more reformed than dispensational. Does anyone know of other Matthew 3 dispensationalists?

As I have shared before, my life is pretty mobile, and I usually have to leave most of my books behind. I have learned that when flying, no matter how large a Bible I am holding in my arms, it usually is not counted towards either my "purse" or "carry on". Last time I flew, thanks to social distancing, I had the whole row to myself and used my Bible as a pillow. I know my time here is limited. I am considering the idea of attempting to use a Large print Dake as my travel Bible on the next hop.

If you think the Dake Bible is horrible, what would you do with it if it were all you had for a couple months, besides a cell phone? Yeah, yeah, use it as firewood. LOL. But seriously. Unless you think it is so bad that it does not include the word of God so would be a sin to read it, what would you do with it?

Imagine you were in solitary confinement at a prison and could only have a single Bible to "practice your religion" and had nothing else except the trash from your meal and your clothes and toiletries to amuse yourself. I have known people in this situation that read the Bible through multiple times, and wanted the biggest Bible possible. Would you choose a Dake over a Bible with no study notes or fewer study notes?

How many people do you think consult a Dake Bible, but pretend they got the information elsewhere or thought it up themselves, rather than be transparent about where they got it?

 

Does anyone want to discuss this?

 

First, I am still trying to get the big picture of where Dake falls in the all of Christendom. I don't believe that Dake is only read by those that are admitting that they read Dake.

I do want to eventually discuss details. I am curious about a lot of things, including those things beyond what people profess in public and what is in fashion.

 

I am a newbie to this accusation. I went onto the websites of the people that are accused of using the Dake Bible and found nothing to support that. Even those men do not profess to use a Dake Bible.

A lot of Dake Bibles are bought. Who is buying all these Bibles, if even the accused do not admit to using them?

 

I have read all the easily accessible information on the Dake Bible, and it has left me with more questions and answered almost none of the questions that I started with. All I read is lots of rumors and shallow reviews.

I cannot find anyone to discuss things like Dake starting the Dispensation of Grace at Matthew 3, and what that really means in interpreting the gospels, compared to starting the Dispensation at Act 2 or 13 or 28. Yes, his dispensational focus was end times, but he started with Matthew 3 for a reason, and Darby did too.

I am growing more curious, not less. There is too much hate, with so little behind that hate. And people just keep saying, "He was Pentacostal". Yeah, and ... ?

This guy was smart and hardworking and enjoyed some earthly rewards. Is some of the hate jealousy?

I know I don't know. And the more I know, the less I think I know. This Bible and all the talk about it is like nothing I have encountered before.

 

I found a message board, but people are more interested in selling mint condition old 4 column Bibles, than discussing the Bible content and studying it. The grandchildren had the notes retyped and slightly editted and enlarged into a 3 column format.

It is just that I have never heard of a commentary by a Pentecostal spoken of with such hate, and I have seen books written by conservative dispensationalist Pentecostals that are read by Baptists that do not even know the author is Pentecostal. Awhile back, I started a thread discussing that there is sometimes more deeper overlap between Baptist and Assembly of God than there is between Baptist and reformed. The gifts is frosting. Sure it is right there in our faces, but ... underneath that, there is far more that is the same.

For so little to back it up, there is so much hate. And for so few people using the Bible, there are so many sales, even of used copies. This is weird. And I feel that it overlaps with some of the plagiarism and acceptable sources and citation stuff being discussed in other threads.

A busy pastor can take a Dake list and immediately turn it into a quick sermon. If I lay out a Dake and a Bullinger Companion Bible, I often have enough lesson appropriate information in front of me that a sermon could be written with no other resources.

I have learned to pay more attention to what is NOT said if I really want to understand some big truth. All the used Dake Bibles being sold for really high prices is like giant pink elephant turds, and no one admitting that they have a pink elephant, because pink elephants are Pentacostal you know. LOL.

 

LOL, I have already stumbled on these two, and this is SOOO out of context!

The Jonah thing, at least where I read it, I think maybe in the NT when Jesus was talking about Jonah and coming back in 3 days, I think he said we do not know if Jonah was alive or not, and he said this in the midst of multiple dead people rising from the dead.

Acts 17:26 sends the reader to a LONG article at the back of the Bible that is an exhaustive list of segregated things, many in Leviticus, including segregation of seeds and all sorts of stuff that I had never thought about together. He does this with lists. He groups by topic and makes exhaustive lists. Lists and more lists and even more lists. The guy was probably a bit autistic and liked making lists when he was anxious, and did not look ahead 60 years to know which lists would no longer be PC.

This is all that comes up: articles that are quotes that are clearly out of context embedded in commentary that is untrue. The guy enjoys a little drama and makes over exhaustive lists and likes to flirt with ideas that might be possible. That would be better in a commentary than Bible notes: I agree. But the reviews are worse than anything that he is doing.

I would love to read an article that was being fair, but have not found one yet. Like I said, articles are not comparing his theories with those of other Study Bibles. I do not have access to articles behind the paywalls: is there any responsible information back there where we poor people are forbidden to access?