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วันพุธที่ 1 มกราคม พ.ศ. 2557

The NIV Life Application Study Bible - Crack It Open Today!


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If you go with what most people are saying about the NIV Life Application Study Bible you can't really go wrong if you ever decide buying it. It's without a doubt the most popular study Bible you can find on the market today. But one good translation you might consider that is also popular is the NLT (the New Living Translation). Those who have it, really love it. And it is not coming too far behind the NIV. You have also the KJ, the NKJ and the NASB. But the NIV and the NLT remain the most popular versions.

You can have the NIV Life Application Study Bible in different formats like hard copy and leather-bound, as well as in normal or larger print. The hard copy is published by Tyndale and the leather-bound mostly by Zondervan.

As for why this type of Bible is so popular I think that by taking a peek inside it is pretty obvious.

If you open the book on the Old Testament you will find - if you are familiar with the Bible - the first book called Genesis along with statistics about who wrote it, to whom it is addressed essentially, as well as where and in what time it was written. And you are also introduced to whom are the most important characters in that particular book and in what period of times they lived.

Introductions to each book is common to almost all study Bible. But what is unique to that Bible is the personality profiles it has on the major characters you will find with their strengths and their weaknesses. You have also a blueprint of the different stories with references to what chapters and verses you can find them in the book in question to make your research easier.

You have a map of the regions to where those events took place as well as notes along with it. Then you have the usual Bible text with cross references on the right margin and notes underneath.

That's only an example of what you can find in this particular study Bible.

If you go almost to the back-end of it you will find the index to the notes in alphabetic order, as well as maps and charts.

One thing that I like is the harmony of the Gospels incorporated in this Bible. It really puts the life and story of the main and most important personality of the Bible - Jesus Christ - into better perspective.

So there you have it. Of course this is only a pale view of what you can find inside, but you have a small idea. The NIV Life Application Study Bible is found either in local Christian bookstores or with well-known online retailers like Amazon.com at a fair price.

You can learn more about this NIV Life Application Bible or other translation at Life Application Study Bible.




วันอาทิตย์ที่ 4 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2555

The wisdom of Solomon in the Catholic Bible


The wisdom of Solomon, also known as the book of wisdom, is one of the seven books included in the Old Testament of the Catholic Bible which does not appear in Protestant Bibles. The wisdom of Solomon was written in Greek, probably in the 1. century b.c. in Alexandria, Egypt. The title, translated into Greek as the wisdom of Solomon, attributed the book to King Solomon, son and heir of King David of Israel. King Solomon was celebrated for his wisdom, and the allocation of this book he relies on a great power of the source of the wisdom that he.

The first five chapters of the book of wisdom, explain the function of wisdom in human destiny and compares the fate of the property and the fate of the bad in life and thereafter. Chapters 6 to 9 treat the origin and the nature of wisdom and how it can be won. Ten to nineteen chapters tell the role of wisdom in the history of the people of God chosen Israel, particularly focusing on the critical event of the exodus of Egypt. In this third part of the book, there is a discussion prolonged idolatry in chapters 13 to 15 years.

The author of the book of wisdom speaks as a King in several sections, particularly as it deals with the other Kings of Chapter 6: 1-11. He urged to understand and to be alert because "sovereignty is given to you by the Lord and power by the most high, which will itself be probe your actions and consider your intentions.". (6: 3), He promises to ruthless judgment for leaders who do not follow the will of God, and forgiveness for the humble of pity.

The wisdom of Solomon is addressed to the author colleagues Jews living in the diaspora in Alexandria, Egypt, a large centre of Greek, learning and culture. It was here that the Septuagint, the translation Greek Hebrew entries, has been produced under the Ptolemies and completed by 132 BC. the author takes a few Greek philosophical ideas, particularly the Platonic distinction of the body and soul in the composition of the human person and the concept of the immortality of the soul (9: 15). "It proclaims that God made the human race for immortality (2: 23) and incorruptibility is the reward for the wisdom and the way of God" (6: 18-19).

The author gives a poetic description of the wisdom in the chapter seven:

And now I understand all, hidden or visible, the wisdom, the creator of all things, told me.

For it is a smart, Saint-esprit, single, multiple, subtle, mobile, incisive, honest, lucid, invulnerable, benevolent, clever, irresistible, bienfaisant, easy beings human, steadfast, reliable, undisturbed, Almighty, all-survey, penetrating, intelligent, pure and more subtle minds.

Wisdom is faster to move that any request; She is so pure, it permeates and pervades all things.

It is a breath of the power of God, pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty; I know that nothing unclean can find its place in him.

Because it is a reflection of the eternal light mirror, without spot of power of God and the image of his goodness.

For more information, go to http://the-catholic-bible.com/

John Mitton