Bible Question: What are your favorite Bible study tools? Or do you not use any? I've found these useful:CONCORDANCES: Strong's (or Crudens) for KJV; NASB Exhaustive (NIV Exhaustive if you use NIV for study and reference)STUDY BIBLES: MacArthur (has NKJV text; Ryrie (available with NASB, KJV, or NIV text); NASB Study Bible (has NASB text with NIV Study Bible notes) published by Zondervan. COMMENTARIES: An excellent and inexpensive one-volume commentary of the entire Bible is "Believer's Bible Commentary" by William MacDonald, published by Thomas Nelson.BIBLE DICTIONARIES: These are so abundant they are weighed, not counted! But investigate before you buy. Some are quite liberal. I like Holman's for general use. It's conservative and has a generous splash of beautiful color photographs of Bible lands.HOW TO BOOKS: Kay Arthur's sound, practical, no-nonsense book, "How To Study Your Bible" can be helpful to just about anyone who wishes to "hide the word in his heart." Hank |
Bible Answer: Thompson Chain Ref. Bible is my favorite Bible study tool because it contains no cometary at all and alows me to interpet God's Word with God's Word, as the Holy Spirit leads, as God planed (John 14:26). Don't get me wrong, I own and use comentarys, but be careful, even the best contain a few doctrinal slants some where or another. I don't think I could write a comentary myself without introducing some "opinions" of my own, as I think anyone would have a hard time not doing. I also use e-Sword Bible Software, which is free by the way (e-sword.net) which I prefer over Nelson and Bible Explorer (and is 300 dollars cheaper!). It has a download called Treasury of Scripture Knowledge that is a lot like the Thompson Chain Ref. that I like a lot. |