Words of Christ in Red Lettering

[franklinmonroe]

I'm not a fan of red letter Bibles. ...

I concur. I do own a couple of red-letter editions. Speaking of color-coded Bibles, I also have a NIV chronological study edition that has the book introduction in red-ish ink.

 

[franklinmonroe]

The whole bible is the literally words of Jesus, Jesus is the word.

Placing the words of Christ in red is dishonest in my opinion.

I think it more accurate to say that the Bible is the words of the Holy Spirit (or simply God).

 

[Yeshua1]

2Ti 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

2Pe_1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

This clearly tells us that all of the bible is the words of God, So what then is the point of placing the words of Christ in red letters in bibles?

Are the words of Christ more inspired than the other words?
the subtle implication of putting Christ's word in red letters takes away from the rest of scripture.

The whole bible is the words of Christ are they not?

You're thoughts?

ALL the bible has the same degree of inspiration from the Lord, as ALL recorded in it to us was from Him, but think many think that somehow being Jesus saying it carries "more weight!"

 

[Jkdbuck76]

The whole bible is the literally words of Jesus, Jesus is the word.

Placing the words of Christ in red is dishonest in my opinion.

Ok. You have said that you do not like words in red. In fact, you've said it more than once. So why repeat it? Why are you even here? Have you been appointed to come to this bulletin board to straighten us all out? If so, pls understand: folks who come here to "straighten everyone out" generally do not last long in here.

I've so far seen KJV this and KJV that from you. Do you have anything else to contribute apart from quoting other KJV-onlyists? If so, I'd LOVE to hear what YOU think. Someone asked you the same in another thread. We are interested in what YOU think...that's how we use this website to grow. I'd learn NOTHING if all I did was to quote Washer or MacArthur all day here.

You are stating above that placing Christ's words in red is dishonest. What if the whole Bible was printed in red? Would that suit you? I'm challenging you to think on your own feet...it will make you better, I promise.

 

[Jkdbuck76]

Lots of times, color coding makes for easier reading for just the reasons listed above.

If a person looks at the different colors and makes the decision that only words of "certain" colors are worthy and other words of other colors aren't, then that's not the fault of the Bible having color coded words.

That's the fault of the reader being ignorant of what makes God's Word, His Word. Let's don't throw the baby out with the bath water.

You can't blame someone's faulty logic on the ink color of a group of words. Their thinking about the Bible was skewed before they ever opened the red-letter edition.

Frankly, those same people would cherry-pick certain Bible passages as carrying more weight than others even if reading an all black inked Bible.

Quoted for truth. Thank you Scarlett O for your logic and reasoning.

 

[annsni]

I don't see much difference between quotation marks and red letters in significance but honestly, to me, the red letters are distracting. I also do think that there are those who diminish the black letter verses because Jesus didn't literally state them and that makes me VERY uncomfortable. If I have a choice between a red letter edition and an all black one, I'll get the black one but if the version/style I want has red letters, I don't let it bother me too much.

 

[Jerome]

Gold Letter Bibles:

(c. 16 century) Matvei Ioannovich Bible National Library of Russia

Matvei Ioannovich was a scribe from the Russian Chancellery of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
ink of different colours: he applied gold for Christ's words and teachings and for quotations from the Old Testament

(1854) The Golden Gospels: The Four Gospels of the New Testament with Words of Christ Printed in Gold Letters, the Other Portions in Black

 

[Deacon]

Yeah it’s a zombie thread but its got some good stuff in it

Rob

 

[Squire Robertsson]

Why not just start a new thread? This zombie thread is closed.

Yeah it’s a zombie thread but it's got some good stuff in it

Rob