Buy a Bible...

Check out my Medium article on owning Bibles as this topic is on getting yourself a copy of God's word. I genuinely love Bibles, and they rank among the most treasured things I own, above my Oakleys and maybe even somewhat higher than the Teva sandals I walk everywhere in.

Call me honest.

The only thing I can rank higher than my Bible(s) is my fellowship with all my readers and church mates. But choosing a Bible can be an exercise in frustration as well as an elevator to the penthouse of snobbery.

In fact, every holy scripture contains power to change lives, but I prefer the Bible's leniency and tenderness. It was a book written with love tho sometimes love came from hard tests, the writer still captured it with lively / positive reverence to God.

There are 2 kinds of Bible buyer out there -the first one is one who likes to note things down / highlight verses / stick Posit notes. The second type is the one who keeps all of it inside and writes articles on or offline (like me). You will find my Bibles are pretty clean but that I have written dozens of analysis / prophecy articles / apologetic books, on various social network platforms. There are no other kind of Bible buyers who absolutely require a physical Bible.

Naturally, if you are the avid note taker, invest in something more expensive, with margins for it, and if you are a read-understand-spreader, you only need a cheap paperback copy. Mine is 2 dollars and a quarter and serves me just fine. Admittedly, I use e-Sword more, as it has Strong's concordance (this is on iPad).

I am not an advocate of fancy compact / slimline Bibles, nor Bibles with 'homework' worksheets or "Did you knows?". I do like dry footnotes that explain the text in modern terms, and piercing essays that accompany traditional sticking points. I also prefer Bibles with notches for each book but these are hard to come by. You can get sticky tabs to index your own Bible for cheap if you’re careful / systematic with it.

Just last night, my cheap Bible’s binding finally fully ripped. What one can expect for $2.25. I fixed it with wide packing tape and discarded its cover. Slipped in a free bookmark added with a zip case ordered from the Philippines.

I like things, stuff, possessions, and somehow ironically, I like a poor man’s word of God. In fact, I prefer poor men’s almost everything aside from Teva and Oakley.