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Anyone ever color code a bible with markers?

Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by Bronconagurski, Jan 6, 2013.

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  1. Bronconagurski

    Bronconagurski New Member

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    I have started a Systematic Theology study (this thread isn't about reformed or dispensational) and am using different colored highlighters for 8 different topics and the scriptures that I think help support them. I don't highlight every reference given, just the ones I think fit contextually. I started with bibliology and will go from there. I put a color code on the white, thick, blank page in the front of my bible. I am sure to run into trouble when the same scriptures support different topics, so I am trying to think of a way to get around this. I suppose I could highlight the 2nd color on the side of the verse.

    Has anyone ever tried anything like this? I thought it would be a good way to study the bible this year instead of reading it through in a year.
     
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    Sort of.
    I used colored pencils in conjunction with the inductive method. I use different colors and shapes to mark key words. I keep track of my code on a 3 x 5 card so that I am consistent in how mark words.

    This can easily be used to help make lists.
     
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    All I do is yellow in my favorite passages.
     
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    I use two or three colored markers,and pen. I use the pen to put quotes , or circles around a key word or phrase. sometimes a check, a star, to denote a sermon note that helped open up the chapter. In a few years as you wear the bible out...you go back to your old one and check on your notes and see if you have learned more or changed what you thought was good before.
     
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    Just buy a Rainbow Bible, they've done the work for you
     
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    That would defeat the purpose.
     
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  7. Bronconagurski

    Bronconagurski New Member

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    Sounds like a good plan. You mentioning lists made me realize that I need to make a list of all the scriptures highlighted for the particular topics. Thanks for your input.
     
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    I hear you. That was my old method. I still do it in some bibles, but in this one I wanted to make it topic specific for an in depth look at systematic theology.
     
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    Pretty good ideas. I have heard preachers say they went back and looked at some of their sermons in their early years and they had changed their minds on quite a few things.
     
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    I agree, where's the fun in that? Besides, I have never met a study bible or commentary yet that I totally agree with. Imagine that.
     
    #10 Bronconagurski, Jan 7, 2013
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