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This edition has helped me better understand what our lord has done for us and how we are on earth to bless him.

The nice thing about this Bible is the wonderful commentaries. This is one of the only Bibles that I have read where the commentaries actually challenge the reader to put things into practice in their own life.
This is really an "application" Bible giving practical applications to the areas of the users life that are referenced in the reading.
I would like to have this Bible handy each time I am doing a study, meditation or listening to a preacher speak. It gives challenging and in-depth explanation of topics.

THIS BIBLE I HAVE READ SEVERAL TIMES COVER TO COVER. I JUST ORDERED IT IN LARGE PRINT AS MY EYE SIGHT IS FAILING. I GET COMFORT AND PEACE FROM READING IT. IT IS UNDERSTANDABLE AND APPLICABLE TO ENTIRE LIFETIMES.

The bible has a lot of interesting and helpful features. The large print really makes it easier to read the great study notes. I was disappointed that the words of Jesus were not in red, I thought all newer bibles had that feature and did not even check it out before I purchased the bible.

This is an excellent study bible! The large print is great. It makes it much easier to read. I would highly recommend this bible.

This book arrived in better form than was described! Also, VERY SPEEDY DELIVERY! I'll buy from you guys again! Thanks!

Love the KJV along with solid explanations! Nelson is very thorough!Everyone should read this book and heed to it's instructions!

I just received the KJV Study Bible from Amazon.com and the item itself was well worth the value. Over 2,000 pages filled with historical bible events and more importantly gives a doctrinal footnote on each chapter of the bible. The footnote alone will give you a more broader understanding of the bible. Great map features which shows the major events that took place in the bible. I recommend this version of the bilbe to anyone especially if you are starting out in a bible study group.

This study Bible has it all. The doctrinal footnotes, personality profiles and annotations are theologically and doctrinally sound. The maps, cross references, inter-testament info, harmony of the gospels, AND the word studies (just to name a few) are in depth enough to help a broad range of people looking for knowledge from Gods' word. I have used the Scofield, Ryrie, and the Key Word study Bibles and this one is all of those in one! This is hands down the best study Bible available! Get one today, you won't regret it.

The content is great. My first copy had a mistake in the printing. there were two books of the bible that were mixed together. The second copy had pages falling out after 1 week of use. Wish the quality of the actual book manufacturing was better because the material format is great.

Reading any Bible is usually considered a chore rather than an opportunity. As I see it, the meanings and word of God as written to match word for word in translation to English is difficult for any reader to understand in terms of present day language flow. Gathering true meaning of every verse is open to individual interpretation which turns Bible readers off. Having a Bible like this one that provides the collective insight of many Bible experts at the bottom of each page lends credibility and reliability to the actual meaning and interpretation. And that not only offers the reader interesting thoughts and insights to what they have just read, but also draws attention and memory excitement to what they have just read.

Readers remember more, are much more interested in what's next, and pay more attention when the footer clears up the confusion they have. Starting out by reading a Bible formatted without any outside coaching usually is put aside by the time they get to "Numbers",if not sooner, and never get back to reading it again. Adding some coaching at the bottom of each page is what this King James edition offers and is an incredible motivation for anyone to read the whole Bible--not just the first 50 pages.

The second great understanding is the recognition that the Bible is not meant to be read only once. With every trip through the Bible one gathers knowledge of more in-depth meanings to everything said there. At that time those readers are then able to follow God's desires and apply them much more appropriately to their own lives. I've not found a Bible format that does it any better than this Bible.

This book is a wonderful resource for those endeavoring to do a self study of the Pauline Epistles, or for those leading a bible study. I found this text to be both challenging and informative for teens and adults alike. This text is very easy to read, while not being over simplistic. Also, the author gives questions at the end of each section to help the reader focus on what Paul is saying to the reader in todays world. A wonderful text.

Beth Moore's studies are great! This book may not be totally necessary, but it makes it more comfortable when you lead the sessions.

I was very happy with how quickley I got this book and the condition it was in. Thank you!

i dont think there was anything that went unanswered. i was able to find everything i needed to perches what i was looking for thank you. however i was looking for the study book to breacking free by beth moore and wasn't able to find . the book and the daily devotion are great to have for a lift in the morning and makes a great way to pray for the day. i have found freedom with the series.

We have not completed the study but in reviewing all the information it should be an awesome study. It will give us a new strength in our Lord Jesus Christ and a peaceful walk with HIM.

I own alot of Beth Moore products.....I would never regret the amount of money spent on any of her merchandise! She is anointed by God to send us many messages.I feel honored to have the breaking free items.I have the book as well as the leader guide that I purchased and I'm so excited to share my joy with others,Buy it you'll never be the same...Melanie

There is so much information in this book, it takes a while to comprehend. However, it is a good overview of how Western society has been in decline and how it started with the ancient Romans. Some little known facts about Darwin: he, himself was troubled by the Cambrian explosion, the complexity of the eye and admitted that "if it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numberous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." We never hear about this Darwin quote at all. Silence.

Recent scientists write in their books "appears to have been designed" due to the mapping of the gene and the lack of discovery of any fossil links. However, they still hold their faith in Darwinism, thinking that any time now, they will find what they are looking for. Instead, they find evidence to the contrary.

This book goes hand in hand with the books written by the intelligent design movement and exposes Darwinism as a moral movement, rather than a scientific one. In order to rewrite morality, Darwinists had to deny God so that they themselves could take on a god-like quality. Since man is now god, they can themselves determine right from wrong, decide who lives and who dies and when (abortion, euthanasia, cloning, stem cell research etc.) In order to soothe the message, beautiful poems and songs were written (we now have books, movies, songs to get the same message across).

I couldn't put this book down! It portrays how various philosophers, scientists, athiests KNOWINGLY deceived the public in order to push their own agenda. I will not look at our current culture the same way again!

Philip Johnson's "Darwin on Trial" should be regarded as the quintessential example of a nonfiction genre in which Christians complain bitterly of modern America's moral ambiguity, lost to the sins of Godless evolutionism, liberal sexual mores, and liberal moral relativity. Indeed, for most Fundamentalist Protestant Christians, Johnson's book could be regarded as its philosophical "Mein Kampf"; a veritable "Bible" which has set forth the main objectives of those seeking to inject their narrow, intolerant religious values onto all facets of contemporary American society and culture. Benjamin Wicker has continued along the same dismal path, writing a somewhat less vitriolic book than any written by Johnson. However, "Moral Darwinism: How We Became Hedonists" is yet another sloppy example of extremist Fundamentalist Christian doctrine which has cleverly disguised its origins via superb Madison Ave-style advertising. Appropriately enough, William Dembski, whom I perceive as this movement's Josef Goebbels, has written yet another eloquent defense of his sanctimonious moral and religious beliefs, sounding quite righteous and convincing to those unwilling to look deeply at the underlying dark, devious motives of Johnson, Dembski, Wilker and others who wish to change American society into one more reminiscient of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. In plain English, these religious zealots would prefer living in a theocratic fascist state which incorporated their bizarre notion of Christianity as the state-authorized faith, than in the still enduring, successful experiment in puralistic, yet ecumenical, democratic republicanism that is the United States of America.

Anyone who has read critically the superb histories of such eminent American historians as Gordon Wood - one of my college professors - Bernard Bailyn and others, should realize that the United States in its early Federalist Period was a state rampant with ample moral decay. Indeed, most of Wiker's criticisms could have been made back then, without having to trot out the dubious bogeyman of "Moral Darwinism". In many respects, contemporary America is a more vibrant, democratic state than the one established by the Founding Fathers over two centuries ago. It has enriched itself by extending the democratic franchise to women and racial minorities such as Blacks and Asians. If one wishes some thoughtful criticism of Liberal politics in the United States, then I can think of other, more profound commentators like journalists George Will and Charles Krauthammer, and eminent economist Thomas Sowell (Incidentally he is among the most distinguished alumni of my prestigious New York City public high school.). Unfortunately, all you will get from the likes of both Wilker and Dembski is sanctimonious moral moronic nonsense; if you insist on paying heed to their nonsense, then I strongly advise buying instead a superb book on Klingon Cosmology.

I've read many books that have made similar points as this one, but the difference is that this book IS the point. Benjamin Wiker clearly and logically boils the culture wars down to the two primary foes: Christianity and Materialism. Once the reader understands this perspective, the reasons why we have experienced such disastrous upheavals in our culture become crystal clear.

For several hundred years, the Materialists thought that they had all of science to back them up. This is why the very word "science" has become synonymous with Materialism. But more recently, science is beginning to undue some of the most cherished and foundational assumptions of Materialist philosophy. For example:

Materialists thought science had proved the universe was eternal and infinite. (...wrong).

Materialists thought science had proved that atoms and cells were very simplistic building blocks of life. (...wrong).

Materialists thought science would very soon discover that the universe was teeming with life. (...wrong).

Materialists thought science would very soon discover an over abundant fossil record to fill in the gaps between species. (...wrong).

Materialists thought science would very soon discover a fossil record to explain away the Cambrian explosion of life. (...wrong).

The list goes on, but my point is this: Science, the very tool which Materialists claimed exclusively for themselves, and with which they bludgeoned Christianity for centuries, has now turned against them. It seems like almost every day, the closer we look in our microscopes, and the further we look in our telescopes, the more evidence we find showing that the Materialists philosophical world view is not accurate.

But these guys aren't going to give up without a fight. You don't think they're going to let a little thing like scientific discovery get in the way of their agenda, do you? To give you an idea of the ridiculous lengths these guys will go to in order to avoid the truth, I'd like to relate the following true story:

You all remember Jane Goodall, the woman who discovered and filmed chimps in the jungle sticking sticks into an ant hill. This, as we were all told in grade school and on PBS, was "proof" that chimps were almost exactly like humans because, after all, they were making tools. Wow. Well, not too long ago, it was discovered that crows (who have bird brains and no thumbs) could actually fashion fish hooks out of metal wire and catch worms in a long, thin beaker. In one fell swoop, the crows out did the chimps, making even more sophisticated tools, and utterly destroyed Jane Goodall's old assumptions. So what was the Materialists' reaction to this new, earth shattering, scientific discovery? They gave Jane Goodall yet another award for her outdated work (...I kid you not).

Take heart, these guys can't keep up this charade forever.

According to John Maynard Keynes, great intellectual and cultural movements frequently trace back to thinkers who worked in obscurity and are now long forgotten. But some thinkers are both famous and influential. This book focuses on two such thinkers, one largely forgotten, the other a household name. The largely forgotten thinker is Epicurus. The household name is Charles Darwin. The two are related: Epicurus set in motion an intellectual movement that Charles Darwin brought to completion.

Believers in God often scratch their heads about Western culture's continual moral decline. What was unacceptable just a few years ago is today's alternative lifestyle and tomorrow's preferred lifestyle. Abortion, euthanasia, divorce, sexual preferences and drug abuse are just a few of the moral issues that have undergone massive changes in public perception. Too often believers in God take a reactive approach to the culture war and throw their energy into combating what they perceive as the most compelling evil of the moment. In the back of their minds, however, is an awareness that something deeper and more fundamental is amiss and that the evils they are combating are but symptoms of a more underlying and pervasive evil.

Benjamin Wiker has done a brilliant job of tracing the roots of that evil in this book. Insofar as traditional theists sense an underlying cause for the moral decline of Western culture, all roads lead to Epicurus and the train of thought he set in motion. For Epicurus, pleasure consisted in freedom from disturbance. For Epicurus, to allow that God might intervene in the natural world and to take seriously the possibility of an afterlife, (with the moral accountability and judgment it implies) were incompatible with the good life.

To short circuit belief in such a God, Epicurus proposed a mechanistic understanding of nature. Accordingly, Epicurus conceived of nature as an aggregate of material entities operating by blind, unbroken, natural laws. God or the gods might exist, but they took no interest in the world, played no role in human affairs and indeed could play no role in human affairs, since a material world operating according to mechanistic principles leaves no place for meaningful divine action. Moreover, since humans belonged to nature and consisted entirely of material entities, death amounted to a dissolution of a material state and thus precluded any sort of ongoing conscious existence.

Epicurus' most prominent disciple is without question Charles Darwin. Darwinism is not only the most recent incarnation of Epicurean philosophy but also the most potent formulation of that philosophy to date. Darwinism's significance consists in the purported scientific justification it brings to the Epicurean philosophy. But the science itself is weak and ad hoc. As Wiker shows, Darwinism is essentially a moral and metaphysical crusade that fuels our contemporary moral debates. Further, Wiker argues that the motivation behind Darwinism today is its alternative moral and metaphysical vision rather than the promotion of science.

Is reality at its base purposive and intelligent or mindless and material? Wiker brilliantly traces this divide to its metaphysical foundations. In so doing, he shows how the challenge of intelligent design to evolutionary naturalism is not the latest flash in the pan of the culture war but in fact constitutes ground zero of the culture war. If you really want to understand why our culture is in its current state, you must read this book.

(Adapted from the Foreword by William A. Dembski.)

This is a bombshell of a book, not because it unveils radical new ideas or a shocking revolutionary viewpoint, but simply because it inconveniently unearths long-buried and decently dead history. In that sense it's less like a grenade than a ticking time bomb.

It's about a dirty little secret called Eugenics or social engineering, widely promoted at the turn of the century in America and reaching its culmination in world war II. It's heyday was the '20s in America when immigration was restricted by race, Germans being the most desirable immigrants. Margaret Sanger originally started Planned Parenthood to limit the number of blacks, Jews and Irish Catholics--considered undesirables. Later she travelled to Nazi Germany and gave their eugenics program her stamp of approval.

Fast forward to the '60s and an example of lying with statistics called the Kinsey Report. The so-called poll came from convicts jailed for sexual crimes and was extrapolated to provide a survey of the sexual proclivities of Americans. Kinsey decisevely divided sex from marriage and procreation, saying there were only six types of sex and including in that sensual activities which previously wouldn't have been considered sex. In doing so he led the way for pornography to separate sex from the person. Kinsey's many "findings" and statistics are still quoted today by both friends and foes to inflate the numbers of sexual adventurers when, if anything, the trend is the other way, with a rediscovery of marriage and a return to stable families.

It's not that you can't read the facts that Wiker has compiled elsewhere, it's just that you won't, if the so-called "progressive" media has its way. As Wiker shows, it's all been done before. Desperate Housewives-- that's so last Tuesday.

I have appreciated studying this book. It helps in understanding the types of illustrations and language of the original writers of Scripture. I would recommend this work for serious students of the Bible.

This is a rather simply laid-out book, but I found it very informative on Aramaic idioms and how they are apparent throughout the Bible. Many of them are self-explanitory, but some are very difficult to discern without this book. For the price, it's certainly an interesting and enlightening read.

Every language has idioms, and the translation from Aramaic to Greek to English has left much to be desired. This fills in the gap for many verses in the NT and OT.
Although Lamsa did his work by himself as Jermone did in the Latin Vulgate; there are some things that appear opinionated with need of confirmation. A great reference for scholars.

George Lamsa is one of the foremost Ancient Aramaic Scholars in the world today. He offers great insight to idioms and difficult scriptures in the bible. I myself am a Christian author and his handling of Eli, Eli, lamana shabachthani is right on. (My spelling may be a little off on these Aramaic words because I do not have them in front of me.) If you want to better understand the bible and the society during Jesus Christ time on earth than this book is a must for those who really want to see the accuracy and the integrity in the word of God.

The purpose of this book is to help us understand the idioms used in the Bible.
Part One is broken down into books by order;Genesis first etc..
A phrase and location are listed with a translation.
An example-Gen.49:24 "His bow abode in strength" means he will become a valiant warrior.

Some of the translations in this book are "off the mark" in my opinion.
The number 666 meaning Nero Caesar.
The Sons of God from Genesis 6 being Seth's descendants.
These ideas are debatable.

A Key to the original Gospels(Part Two of the book) has some interesting information.
"Eli,Eli,Lmana Sabachthani" the phrase uttered my Messiah shortly before his death is rendered-"My God,my God,for this I was kept."

Mr.Lamsa may have went a bit too far looking for symbolic meaning in passages that have a literal meaning.
While I don't think that this book is without error, it has value as a tool for studying some difficult idioms.