What to do with old Bibles
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I have many Bibles and are always trying to give them away. I try to rescue as many as possible.
When the pages begin to fall out, I take the pages, fold them up, and stick them where people will find them later on. Maybe in a pocket at the goodwill, or in a container for a yard sale, or just in a place between bricks on a building.
I usually try to pick good pages. The easy ones from the NT are good. Psalms and proverbs are good also.
It reminds me of when it was illegal to possess scriptures and people would carry little scraps of the Bible with them, hidden in their clothes.
How blessed we are these days to be so rich in the scriptures.
When the pages begin to fall out, I take the pages, fold them up, and stick them where people will find them later on. Maybe in a pocket at the goodwill, or in a container for a yard sale, or just in a place between bricks on a building.
I usually try to pick good pages. The easy ones from the NT are good. Psalms and proverbs are good also.
It reminds me of when it was illegal to possess scriptures and people would carry little scraps of the Bible with them, hidden in their clothes.
How blessed we are these days to be so rich in the scriptures.
I have every Bible I ever owned on a shelf in my library. Probably the last stop for them. I also had my mom’s KJV that she got from her brother in the 1930’s. Except, I have no idea where it is. I hope it didn’t get lost in the last move.
My hope is that maybe my grandkids would like a Bible? I sure would have liked my grandmother’s Bible. But, I asked for that, and a picture of Michaelangelo’s Last Supper, and never got either. Somehow, her youngest sister got the picture. Then her sister downsized, got a call from my cousin, would I like the picture?
The picture is a colourized Version of the real one. Kind of cheap looking. But growing up, every Julian Christmas and Easter, we would go to my grandmother’s, meet and play with all our cousins, and then have an amazing feast. And my grandmother would pray, while Jesus looked down at us. That picture is in my dining room, ready for my family feasts which don’t come often enough.
My hope is that maybe my grandkids would like a Bible? I sure would have liked my grandmother’s Bible. But, I asked for that, and a picture of Michaelangelo’s Last Supper, and never got either. Somehow, her youngest sister got the picture. Then her sister downsized, got a call from my cousin, would I like the picture?
The picture is a colourized Version of the real one. Kind of cheap looking. But growing up, every Julian Christmas and Easter, we would go to my grandmother’s, meet and play with all our cousins, and then have an amazing feast. And my grandmother would pray, while Jesus looked down at us. That picture is in my dining room, ready for my family feasts which don’t come often enough.
I have bibles that my grand parents owned. One is a pilgrims KJV teachers addition(188?,,cant remember,lol,when I was a kid cowboy days) the one I use now is a KJV that was my mothers father's and why is because it has great big words(huge print)....
My father had books from the school he went to in Mississippi as a boy English,Geography, history ect. but the most interisting of them to me was a book about how to farm,use and make(blacksmith) farm implaments and set up the tack fo Ox,Mule,Horse teams ect. . It also shows how to butcher, preserve,cure ect. as well as diognose ilnesses in all farm animals,garden ect. (why is I think that to them the world they would live in was what they saw to teach them,lol)...
The most "frightfull book" in my collection is the part two oiginal of "the rise and fall of the Confederacy" by Jefferson Davis which is a first addition printed in the U.S. right after the Cival war (crazy thing for me to keep right?) but why I say that it is the most frightfull one in my collection is that once I had my wife contact seveal mueseums in Mississippi and to find it's value(I would have sold it,lol) but they ask to have it and put it on display instead.
The thing about though is this while unpacking my parents belonings after I inheirated them me and my brother in law(both wanting the books) spoke about them and decided that they were from my blood relatives that I should recieve them. He though wrote down the title,aurthor ect. and purchased volume 1&2,,,the thing about it is this though if you take his vol.2 and examine it page by page whith my oiginal there are several instances where it has been "reworded,statements ommited or altered from the original"...
In my oppinion I would not discard any old antique books,,,
My father had books from the school he went to in Mississippi as a boy English,Geography, history ect. but the most interisting of them to me was a book about how to farm,use and make(blacksmith) farm implaments and set up the tack fo Ox,Mule,Horse teams ect. . It also shows how to butcher, preserve,cure ect. as well as diognose ilnesses in all farm animals,garden ect. (why is I think that to them the world they would live in was what they saw to teach them,lol)...
The most "frightfull book" in my collection is the part two oiginal of "the rise and fall of the Confederacy" by Jefferson Davis which is a first addition printed in the U.S. right after the Cival war (crazy thing for me to keep right?) but why I say that it is the most frightfull one in my collection is that once I had my wife contact seveal mueseums in Mississippi and to find it's value(I would have sold it,lol) but they ask to have it and put it on display instead.
The thing about though is this while unpacking my parents belonings after I inheirated them me and my brother in law(both wanting the books) spoke about them and decided that they were from my blood relatives that I should recieve them. He though wrote down the title,aurthor ect. and purchased volume 1&2,,,the thing about it is this though if you take his vol.2 and examine it page by page whith my oiginal there are several instances where it has been "reworded,statements ommited or altered from the original"...
In my oppinion I would not discard any old antique books,,,
lol, lets shift over to the paperless paradigm,,,or in other words lets relive the old days from the ad385's where the Church burned the hieratic's books or the book burnings in ww2,,,lol but lets have them dispose of them for us it's just so much easier to have them believe they are doing the right thing...
Cross your name out and leave them in a public place to get picked up like a bus stop or outside a shelter. If nothing else you can put them in a bag for good will then you are reasolved of any guilt.... Good will is now responsible for them... My dog Zoe ate Genesis out of one of my Bibles once... I was all good throwing it away...
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God’s Word is the meaning, not the ink shaped into letters, paper, and leather. If it was our only copy, then it would be wrong to throw it away. But as long as you have access to His Word by other means, then it is ok to throw it away. God’s Word is not a book, the meaning is only found in a book.
Some treat bibles like relics. I knew a lady who didn’t read it, but she kept it in the glove compartment of her car, and claims that that is why she’s never been in a car accident. The book containing God’s Word is not a lucky charm, there is no power in the inked pages, only in the meaning of the message.
I have taken an old bible and cut out scriptures that are meaningful to me, and made sort of an art collage.
I have also torn out pages and done artwork on them that corresponds with the words on the page.
You could make a paper wreath using pages from the bible. I have one made from an old antique book.
I have also torn out pages and done artwork on them that corresponds with the words on the page.
You could make a paper wreath using pages from the bible. I have one made from an old antique book.
LOL! We can all send our old KJV Bibles to you and you can start a KJV museum!
And we can send you all our old modern versions and you should get enough to make a bigger bonfire than the one Paul had at Ephesus! Gather several semiloads of these heretical versions and have a Bible burning!
Do you have an address to send them to?
And we can send you all our old modern versions and you should get enough to make a bigger bonfire than the one Paul had at Ephesus! Gather several semiloads of these heretical versions and have a Bible burning!
Do you have an address to send them to?
LOL! We can all send our old KJV Bibles to you and you can start a KJV museum!
And we can send you all our old modern versions and you should get enough to make a bigger bonfire than the one Paul had at Ephesus! Gather several semiloads of these heretical versions and have a Bible burning!
Do you have an address to send them to?
And we can send you all our old modern versions and you should get enough to make a bigger bonfire than the one Paul had at Ephesus! Gather several semiloads of these heretical versions and have a Bible burning!
Do you have an address to send them to?