Geoffrey's Notebook

Week 26 —1st John Bible Nerd-Study *Missed last week?  Click here  for 1st John Bible Nerd-Study - Week 24 & 25 Young's literal translation + Manna/Memory 1 John 2:18-23 + God Has Spoken in 1st John (Kaung) 1 John (Youngs) We're in the 2nd half of our 1st John studies! It's time for us to share more of our notes and begin to fellowship with others who have studied and shared their comments. I've been reserving some of my notes to not overwhelm the group before we reached this spot, but I'm planning to share more now and encourage everyone to do the same. Translation: First, let's read the Young's literal translation this time. I have a large white paperback version of this at home but you can find the digital version everywhere that has Bible translations. Attached is a copy just in case. You may have seen Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible. That is a concordance worth having at home. It's not just for searching to find a ...

Week 24 & 25 —1st John Bible Nerd-Study *Missed last week?  Click here  for 1st John Bible Nerd-Study - Week 23 1 John 2:12-17 Manna + Memory + Paraphrase (6 verses for 2 weeks). Use your normal translation for both weeks. Hey everyone, these will be our last weeks without commentaries. In general, I try to not use commentaries until after reading through the first 25 times. By that point, I'm well into my detailed outline of the book and I'm actually very interested in what others have to say, what nuggets of gold they've discovered, etc. Some of us are still catching up, and others may almost find the study boring without enough direction. That's probably normal for Bible study. You either are hungry for a lot more or you are overwhelmed by it. Then sometimes you're at the sweet spot of enjoyment and enlightenment. It's the drudgery of the regular study that brings out the depth of light and life that we may hear in a good sermon or read in a good...

Week 23—1st John Bible Nerd-Study *Missed last week?  Click here  for 1st John Bible Nerd-Study - Week 23 Paraphrase 2:3-11 + RV vs ESV translation. 1 John (RV vs ESB) This week we have the RV vs the ESV. Remember that ESV is based on the RV just as NASB is based on ASV. And the ASV team was together originally with the RV team. When the RV was released people weren't sure if it was okay to read it. In England, for example, they weren't sure if it was approved since it wasn't the "authorized" version. People were more used to the English of the KJV thought it was still outdated. It's possible that Spurgeon said the RV was strong in Greek but weak in English (I've read that quoted in various places but I can't find the original). But he still quoted the RV often in sermons to bring up the original text and used it as the better study translation. Watchman Nee mentions the RV text in his talks on Bible Study as possibly the best translation at...