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If someone is considering the NLT for a child, prisoner, remedial learner, or new English learner, I think it is also worth looking at the NIrV New International READERS Version in large print. As a phonics tutor, I will not bore you with the details of why. The Denim Look NIrV Holy Bible...

I guess it comes down to what is most important to an individual. Adding and subtracting things from the salvation requirements is of critical important to me. Noise levels and emotion levels are not of critical importance, until and unless they start messing with salvation issues.

Yes, but is that really any bigger than some other issues like salvation and covenant theology and missions?

Welcome Glerse! I have a few books on fasting in my logos library that came in a package that I bought for other reasons. Fasting is on my long list of things to learn about. Solomon said there were an endless amount of books. What would he say about the books we have today? LOL.

I think there are things that I may not know about this subject. Early man watched the passage of seasons without full understanding. He did not need full understanding to prepare for winter and assume that spring would come eventually. There are parts of the Bible that I know I am to concern...

I think people that live cozy and comfortable lives among people have been blessed for right living, trust more in their community than God: I think it feels safer to think of God as smaller. Whereas people that face danger and poverty feel safer to think of God as bigger. We need to be careful...

So true!

I knew a young man that PLANNED to get C's all though high school and college. It might have saved his life. He did high school through a correspondence school so he could compact his studies. Then he worked 2-3 jobs while putting himself through a community college with no debt or parental...

What a ridiculous generalization of traditionalism! The Bible cautions us to seek the counsel of our elders.

I am. I don't think I am the only one. As soon as the money hit my account, I paid $400 on my charge card. As soon as it clears, I will add the rest and more too. My nose has been above water with my debt, but now the water is down to my waist and inspires me to do whatever it takes to pay it...

What a year! I cannot believe all that got packed into a single year! I am not the person that I was a year ago. I lost so much, and I have not stopped grieving my losses, but I see the hand of God in my life and he has been so so SOOOO good to me. My suffering is not over. Christmas had me...

The reality is that there are lot of people in the world without access to "reputable" sources. Those of us that have been locked out of "acceptable" resources must rely on what we do have access to, and make the best of it. By locking people out of resources and then requiring use of resources...

People with the worst translations often have the strongest churches. I used to think that is DESPITE the translation being a mess; now, I think it might be a BENEFIT of not trusting single verses enough to take them out of context when the big picture is saying something else.

I was thinking today, that if you scrape the surface stuff off, deeper down, some Baptists are more like their Assembly of God siblings than their more similar-looking reformed and conservative siblings.

It would be interesting if this increases attendance at smaller churches and home churches. I'm not so sure the mega church model is the best model. This pandemic is weird. Lots and lots of bad stuff is happening, but all over the world, good things are happening too.

Ah, okay, you meant the comment about Americans reading the 1689 Federalism site, for when Americans are looking for potential leads to schools. I thought you meant something wider. Thanks!

I disagree. I think KJVO is a wider and more diverse group than outsiders recognize. You cannot lump everything that any KJVO person says to all KJVO. Yes, there are people that fit the stereotypical KJVO, but there are at least as many that don't fit the stereotype. I think words and phrases...

With a touch more Charismatic, though, I think.

Does everyone agree that the 1689 leaves no room for dispensation? I am not sure where I am on the dispensation spectrum, but I am not anti-dispensationalism. Also I am not fully reformed/Westminster, and I am not not NOT works-required. I will not attend a school that is anti-dispensationalism...

This is where I still have things to learn, and am open. I do not reject dispensationalism, but how far I go with it is something that I am still working out. I do not believe in a works based salvation. My first research paper for WVBS is on this topic. I feel like it is too early to be...