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The Scriptures are still Scripture whether they are on a screen, on an ipad or on paper. I use an ipad because I can have multiple translations up. I can also put notes about passages which will sync with all my devices.

 

Legalism anyone?

 

There you go unrighteously judging. It's what he 's observed so how ae YOU going to tell him his observation wasn't factual?

Again that's your unrighteous judgment. He saw the trend so how are you gonna tell him what he saw? What would he have to cite a survey for? He OBSERVED it. It doesn't matter what you and others have seen if he saw something else that gave him reason to see it as a developing trend.

You mean proof for you. :laugh: He got his proof when he observed it. :laugh:

Of course, it's only right to judge when YOU do it.

Taking advice from someone who is being judgmental while telling someone else that they can't be judgmental is not advised.

 

I bring my Bible and my Tecarta Bible equipped Android Phone. I leave the Bible opened to the main text and use the phone for the back and forths.

 

I usually bring my paperback Bible to church, but sometimes I forget it. I can be a pretty forgetful person, so that happens quite a lot.

My church has some Bibles lying around under seats that I can use in that case, though.

I often bring my ipod to church with me, but I try to avoid using it during sermons. It just looks potentially disrespectful, even if all I'm doing is using the Bible app.
But when in Bible study, I have been using my iPod lately. Because it's a small group of people and I can confirm to the others that I'm just using the Bible app and not browsing the internet.

That said, I don't consider it wrong when others do it. If they are watching movies or something, then it is wrong. If they are merely using the Bible, it's up to the individual conscience IMO.

 

Awesome! I own a paperback ESV, but wasn't able to download the ESV to my ipod when I looked a couple months ago.

 

You are correct. Some people have their belts buckled too tightly.

 

I like the ESV, but I've got a problem with some of its preferred translations. One of the rules of the ESV translators seems to have been that, if the NASB showed preference to one of two renderings, they would show preference to the other. That's obviously an oversimplification, but if you look at both side by side, you'll see a lot of that, whether it be coincidence or not.

Our pastor uses the ESV, and as a result a lot of our Bible study teachers use the ESV, but I still prefer the NASB. Just a personal preference, not a condemnation or critique of the ESV.

I've got an NASB app on my phone, but I also have access through it to other versions, and reading the ESV sometimes does make it more clear, as it leans toward conversational "high English" as opposed to the academic rendering of the NASB.

 

I've demonstrated in a few threads in the past that the NASBU actually "speaks" in more natural English than does the ESV some of the time.

 

You're right there, too. Some of those translation preferences in the ESV actually muddy the waters instead of making them more clear.

 

Hmmmmm...ya think?

 

That's funny-:laugh:.

Thanks, I needed that.

 

Is this now a "translations" conversation?

 

After you have been here for a while, you discover that there are only two real discussions here- BV's and C/A. Everything eventually boils down to those two issues.:tongue3:

 

Original OP Question: Do you bring your Bible to church?

Answer from a 56 YO Born Again: How absurd.....Of course. I dont go anywhere without it. :godisgood: