I picked up the CSB Apologetics Bible a couple weeks ago while my Thompson Chain NIV is getting re-covered. I'm highly customizing it as I usually do and it's fast becoming what might be my main Bible? Let me say what I wish it did have. - Red letter!! I'm missing this feature so much that I've taken a red artist pencil and drawing a small vertical line next to the verse number of every verse that Jesus is speaking. A red highlighter would bleed through the page too much. - A Larger Concordance. - More historical information, in charts and tables. - A couple more blank pages at the beginning or the end of the Bible - I would be especially happy if I could get this apologetics Bible in red letter and in Thompson Chain. The chain is wonderful. So to alleviate some of these desires, I'm cutting supplemental information out of other Bibles, creating tables of information in Word, pulling comparison charts from the internet, cutting them to size and inserting them in the appropriate places to look as if they were built with the Bible. It can be done using a reusable glue and no one can really tell it's not a professional job. The inserted Pages turn just like any other Bible page. I'm active in Apologetics and the articles may not go deep enough for me, so I slightly question if I should have gotten a CSB regular Study Bible just for the plethora of random facts, and leave the Apologetics study to my regular fact finding routine. In the end it may not matter, as I do like the Bible and the translation and I'm enjoying adding things to it.
@Yaas_ok1235 ай бұрын
Thank you for useful review !
@charlesf28045 ай бұрын
I have this Bible (mine is Holman Christian Standard Bible). I use it when a Sunday school lesson calls for an apologetic approach to a verse or passage (or I can just sneak it in).
@RevReads5 ай бұрын
Perfect use for it
@ojibwayinca84875 ай бұрын
I just bought this in hard copy at a used bookstore. I don't know what translation this is and why they used it. Does anyone know why they didn't just use one of the standard translations like the NIV?
@RevReads5 ай бұрын
If it is HCSB or CSB, those are standard translations.
@SpaceCadet4Jesus5 ай бұрын
It's similar to the NIV. The CSB is more in the center between dynamic equivalence (NIV) and a literal translation. A great balance with no overtones of Fundamental vs. Traditional vs. Evangelical. I picked up the CSB Apologetics Bible a couple weeks ago and somehow it really looks like it may uproot my 1984 NIV as my main Bible. Give it a chance.