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1 | Brand new out of date NASB? | Bible general Archive 1 | EdB | 55343 | ||
Justme I'm terribly sorry if I came across sarcastic or unfriendly. I think it was frustration, it seems if the item has a "cross" on it the price goes up. I mentioned Sam and Wal Mart but the same holds true for Borders or any major book retailer. I can buy a Christian book in a major book retailer for at times less than half the price of the Christian book store. And they will special order it for me. My friend who owns a Christian Book store sells her books at between 30-50 percent below normal Christian Book store prices and she is making a fine profit. Enough to put her son through college, pay cash for a house, and drive a paid for Lexus. I never had nerve enough to ask what she is making. I get real frustrated when people are forced to pay outlandish prices for things labeled Christian. Look at the book Prayer of Jabez that just came out. 10.95 for 93 tiny pages and the Christian Books stores were selling them by the cases. If I had a nickel for each one sold I would be a rich man. The Book would have sold anywhere else for under 5 dollars. I'm, sorry you worked for Zondervan, to me they are the worst. After what they did by bringing out the TNIV I will not buy anything Zondervan. So if you tell me you lost money working for them I would believe you, I think that is the kind of company they are. My friend my argument is not with you or Mom and Pop Christian Book stores it is with people making excessive profit on anything called Christian. I know people that can't afford to get a decent Bible at a Christian Book store, yet I can buy them for them for a fraction of the their cost because I know where. That my friend is wrong. As to the point that brought this up. Buying a NASB Thompson. First if he bought it in a Christian Book store the employee should have known enough to tell him it was not the updated version. That probably did not happen. I think he also should be allowed to return it if he chooses. I think that could be a mistake because what he has is a fine Bible. However I feel no pity for the Christian Book Store should they have to take it back. They being the “expert” should have advised him of the differences before purchase if not they are just like the “major” retailers that you spoke about. Again I have no argument with you, nor do I think you do not know about which you speak. However I think your coming from a different perspective than I am. I keep seeing people taken advantage of by purveyors of Christian merchandise, and it is often done in the name of God. Forgive me my brother for coming across less than friendly or argumentative I just hate to see people ripped off. EdB |
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2 | Brand new out of date NASB? | Bible general Archive 1 | justme | 55353 | ||
EdB: I really do see your point. I could not agree more about the "christian junk", and I purposefully used the small letter "c" because Christ has nothing to do with these noder day temple coffers! The WWJD stuff is a perfect example! If it's not in your heart, why ware it? In most of our chain Christian Book stores Thomas Kinkade, paintings that have been reprinted by the hundred of thousands are a hig price item. There is Kinkade, cups, pictures, glass trinkets, and so many things done by Kinkade. I would bet one fourth of the store is devoted to this "christian" mega million dollar enterprise. My pet pieve is try and find some really schollary material. You mentioned the Left BEHIND BOOKS. The co autor, according to Hank Hanegrraaf does not believe in the trinity! My opinion is if there wer no book of Revelation Lehey whould have starved! I call this kind of reading "christian junk". How many Christians own an Exhaustive Concordance, or a set of Commentary's? Yet they will have all 27 books of LEFT BEHIND. or however many gets in print. You are very correct to buy a well made genuine leather Bible does cost a lot. I have no objection to CBD or Amazon, or any other place we can save money. We are all faced with choices, abd some we might rather not like to make. A Bible at the local Book store for 89 dollars or the Bible discount Mall for 65 dollars. There is not much to deciede. I do agree, but also see the other side. As for your friend I can not speak for how that is dome. What ever they are doing must be pretty profitable. May I address you feelings on Zondervan. When Mr. Zondervan owned the Company, I can say Mr. Zondervan was A FINE SOILD CHRISTIAN I HIGHLY RESPECTED. When Harper and roe bought Zondervan out in the late eighties, it was a huge change. Many who worked for Zondervan, were paid their full retirement out of Mr. Zondervans personal funds. He had intregrity. The publishing industry has lost many publishing houses in the last decade. The way they print and make books is much faster, and cheaper, and quality is lower. Zondervan/Harper and Roe, are mading a profit, where Zondervan was not. The sane for Broadman and Holman, they united. However Zondervan has is not the only publishing house that has made some real faulty changes to older versions. the New Revised Standard Version is appalling to me. BroadmanHolman prints that. So what are we to do? I will support The Lockman Foundation, and their wonderfull efforts in the NASB update. Published by....Zondervan. I am buying the work done by The Lockman Foundation, printed on better quality materials in genuine leather ans smythe sewn. Like buying at Wal Mart, rather than my local store. If we do not buy the TNIV it will ge gone soon. I wish they would bring back THE OPEN BIBLE in the updated NASB, myself. Thanks for the reply. Agape, justme |
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3 | Brand new out of date NASB? | Bible general Archive 1 | EdB | 55358 | ||
Justme There are three Open Bibles. The first was what many fell in love with. Then they came out with the "New Open Bible" which I dearly love. And in the 90's they came out with a new "Open Bible" which I don't like at all. I have a New Open Bible in NKJV that I paid 19 dollars for bonded leather with a grey cover. I just wanted a Bible for my desk. Well I started using it and use I did. Within 3 years the cover was shot and the pages were falling out. I found a local book store that had a book binder and they sent it out. The re-covered it in glove leather, put in new fly leafs and rebound the pages, rebuilt the spline and fixed everything all for 50 dollars. I now have my favorite back. I usually only buy genuine leather (except for the bible above) and I look for symth sewing and french paper pages. Holman use to make an excellent Bible but lately they aren't so hot. Probably the best are Foundation and Kirkbride. |
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4 | Brand new out of date NASB? | Bible general Archive 1 | justme | 55367 | ||
EdB: Dis you know Kirkbride and Zondervan have ties with each other. Kirkbride was the first to come out with the "glue lock" systen when the Thompson Chain NIVfirst came out. That was a real disaster!. I have rebound a couple of old Bibles from 1870ies. It several weeks at 20 hoursa weeek. The work takes lots pf time to align the edges and sew it back by hans. I did this as a gift, and I might do it again. Yest I did buy a 1990's edition. I too found it not anywhere as good as the orignal. Blessings, I feel we have moved much closer to knowing and understanding eacher. This has been a good day. Thank you. agape, justme |
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5 | Brand new out of date NASB? | Bible general Archive 1 | EdB | 55372 | ||
Justme I didn't know of the ties between Kirkbride and Zondervan. I hope they aren't too deep. This has been a good day! God's richest and fullest blessings to you and yours EdB |
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6 | Brand new out of date NASB? | Bible general Archive 1 | BradK | 55378 | ||
A series of good points made regarding Christian literature. We are inceasingly becoming "junk food" Christians as was noted by Justme. I found a quote by Miles Stanford in The Complete Green Letters that is pertinent. In the chapter titled, Life Via Literature he writes,"The good has always been the enemy of His best. No books can replace the Book, and only those of the highest caliber can assist in opening its treasures. Therefore, seek the best and shun the secondary". Speaking the Truth In Love, BradK |
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7 | Brand new out of date NASB? | Bible general Archive 1 | EdB | 55458 | ||
Bradk Great quote!! Thanks EdB |
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