What to do with old Bibles falling apart?

[Guest HisG]

Some churches collect old worn out Bibles and send them to Pacific islands for the churches there.

A few of my old ones were 'recycled' that way

Actually my most favourite Bible is missing the front and back cover but it's mine for keeps!

[missmuffet]

Some churches collect old worn out Bibles and send them to Pacific islands for the churches there.

A few of my old ones were 'recycled' that way

Actually my most favourite Bible is missing the front and back cover but it's mine for keeps!

Yes,their are Bibles in need all over the world.People who can not afford them would love to have them.Worn or not.

[Atwood]

Well 19DF,

I have not problem with trashing an old Bible. But there may be a more noble method:

Whenever you get a Bible, pick one or more themes, like pink for salvation, green for Holy Spirit, or blue for funny stories -- whatever you want or the Lord leads you to pick for your subject(s) of the year. Read through that Bible that year, using highlighters to mark your subject(s). At the end of the year, retire that Bible to your library and buy a new Bible (or break one out of your case of Bibles!).

Then pick new subject(s) for the coming year. Continue on and think what you will have in 30 years.

Imagine someone telling you, "Jesus never endorsed the Old Testament as God's Word." Then you break out your Bible where you marked the topic of "Word of God" from cover to cover. And then you flip to crucial passages in the gospels to stick under his nose. It is also nice once you have a Bible marked from cover to cover on a topic to then read through the marked verses, underlining the most important of them and noting in the margin a chain reference. At the start of the Bible you write the reference to the first occurrence of your topic. Then wherever you did an underline, write the verse reference to the next underlined passage.

I should think it would be more fun to read Geneva in the original font and English, seeing v for u and u for v. I think that our Pilgrim forefathers clung to the Geneva Bible, disdaining that new modern King James Version that was just out.

Let the Word dwell in you richly.

Edited April 11, 2014 by Atwood

[kwikphilly]

Blessings Fez!!!

    Excellent...................sounds like a wise old  Proverb!!!!! God Bless you & your wife                                        With love-in Christ,Kwik

[OakWood]

 

So I really like the Textus Receptus manuscripts, and just yesterday got the Geneva Bible in modern English, as it was printed in 1599 plus waiting for a Webster Revision Bible Translation (it is a 1833 revision of the KJV Bible).   But I have many Bible that are falling apart, and I don't want to destroy them, anybody know what I can do with them?

 

"Show me a bible that is falling apart and I will show you a person who isn't"

 

 

I have one Bible which I bought three, maybe four years ago. I usually look after books but mine is falling to bits. It's like I've had it for twenty years and kept throwing on the floor and treading on it.

Now I realise it's because I read it too much.

Worn Bibles are not a bad thing.

[FreeinChrist]

 

So I really like the Textus Receptus manuscripts, and just yesterday got the Geneva Bible in modern English, as it was printed in 1599 plus waiting for a Webster Revision Bible Translation (it is a 1833 revision of the KJV Bible).   But I have many Bible that are falling apart, and I don't want to destroy them, anybody know what I can do with them?

 

"Show me a bible that is falling apart and I will show you a person who isn't"

 

 

Thanks Fez but right now my life definitely doesn't seem to all that together, but shortly I will open up a new thread with a question about that.

Well 19DF,

I have not problem with trashing an old Bible. But there may be a more noble method:

Whenever you get a Bible, pick one or more themes, like pink for salvation, green for Holy Spirit, or blue for funny stories -- whatever you want or the Lord leads you to pick for your subject(s) of the year. Read through that Bible that year, using highlighters to mark your subject(s). At the end of the year, retire that Bible to your library and buy a new Bible (or break one out of your case of Bibles!).

Then pick new subject(s) for the coming year. Continue on and think what you will have in 30 years.

Imagine someone telling you, "Jesus never endorsed the Old Testament as God's Word." Then you break out your Bible where you marked the topic of "Word of God" from cover to cover. And then you flip to crucial passages in the gospels to stick under his nose. It is also nice once you have a Bible marked from cover to cover on a topic to then read through the marked verses, underlining the most important of them and noting in the margin a chain reference. At the start of the Bible you write the reference to the first occurrence of your topic. Then wherever you did an underline, write the verse reference to the next underlined passage.

I should think it would be more fun to read Geneva in the original font and English, seeing v for u and u for v. I think that our Pilgrim forefathers clung to the Geneva Bible, disdaining that new modern King James Version that was just out.

Let the Word dwell in you richly.

 

Atwood, I have a original 1611 KJV, and an original 1599 Geneva Bible, and whenever I open either up and try to read it, I usually get a small headache.

 

 

 

Thanks everyone for the answers, I will probably try to donate them somewhere.

 

Although my Ryrie Bible is missing some pages around Isaiah 53, and my Open Bible is missing Psalms 17, 18, and parts of 16 and 19, along with John 12-14, and the first 2 or 3 chapters of I Corinthians.  A LaHaye Prophecy Bible someone in my family gave for a Christmas gift, is just totally falling apart, and i am not comfortable with destroying it or throwing it away.

 

[angels4u]

 

If you cannot give the Bibles away and you have a spot where you can burn it that might be an option

 

I really don't understand this comment. 

 

I would never burn a book,  let alone a Bible. 

 

Pass them on or keep them , treasure them. 

 

Amen!

 

The Bible is special to me ,it contain Gods word and in no way can I throw it out or burn it either..

 

I love my old Bible

 

I have more then one Bible but there's just something about my first Bible when I started underlining words and make highlight special verses..

[OldSchool2]

... But I have many Bible that are falling apart, and I don't want to destroy them, anybody know what I can do with them?

The ancient Hebrews used to bury old scrolls of scripture, but I don't know if it was intended to be more like a funeral service.

[Atwood]

19D posted: "Atwood, I have a original 1611 KJV, and an original 1599 Geneva Bible, and whenever I open either up and try to read it, I usually get a small headache."

Are you joking? You mean the antique writing annoys you? If you have a genuine original (not a reprint), I think they would be worth a lot of money.

As you no doubt know, one can get a book rebound.

Edited April 13, 2014 by Atwood

[Littlelambseativy]

If you cannot give the Bibles away and you have a spot where you can burn it that might be an option

 

I really don't understand this comment. 

 

I would never burn a book,  let alone a Bible. 

 

Pass them on or keep them , treasure them.

Amen!

 

The Bible is special to me ,it contain Gods word and in no way can I throw it out or burn it either..

 

I love my old Bible

 

I have more then one Bible but there's just something about my first Bible when I started underlining words and make highlight special verses..

I said in another post that rather than recycle the Bible and have the paper used for a trashy magazine or toilet tissue I would rather burn it. We have over twenty Bibles and none have been thrown out. If they become worn on the cover a new cover is made for the them. The range from Russian to Geneva to NIV to the numerous King James Versions. As I repeat I would not burn a Bible but I would rather see the smoke of one ascend than to see it recycled into a sleazy magazine etc.