I have had several people over the years (including recently) post comments (and a couple of emails) denigrating my blog because they perceive me to be uneducated on the subject on which I write, or that my research is most likely from bad sources, etc. I have even been denigrated for not having a college degree of some sort, which means I am poorly educated, I guess.
Well, let’s put it this way: I am an autodidact! I believe that I have better than a college education in my subject areas—I just don't have a degree. Colleges, for the most part, just indoctrinate you into all things LEFTIST
I can start by saying I have read hundreds (if not thousands) of books (not including the Bible) on history, logic, apologetics, theology, culture, psychology, etc, etc. Anyone who reads my end-of-the-year posts on the books I’ve read that year can verify the various topics I study.
While in the Army, I was trained as a Combat Engineer, which means I was trained to build bridges or blow them up, build runways or blow them up, build bunkers or blow them up, etc— meant lots of training and study. Additionally, I was a training sergeant for an entire battalion and later I was an operations and training sergeant for a company. You can’t be totally ignorant to hold such positions.
I also have a commercial pilot license for airplanes and helicopters, single and multi-engined airplanes, and am instrument rated (for bad weather)—and that is one heck of a lot of training. Then my aviation career took me into the air traffic control business, with lots of technical training on radar and tower control operations, including being certified as a weather observer. When I was promoted to a control tower supervisor I took FAA management training at two different colleges, a year apart, and spent 10 years as an Air Traffic Control supervisor.
I also took training for making me the Deputy Commander for Cadets for a Civil Air Patrol composite squadron.
I have attended 11 apologetics conferences as well as three biblical counseling conferences and have had an apologetics ministry for almost 50 years. As such I have taught apologetics classes for adult and high school Sunday School.
My apologetics and biblical studies have been in depth, studying materials by some top-notch biblical and/or apologetics scholars.
As a way of refuting my detractors I thought it would be fun to share what books I have read from my library of over 1000 books, not to mention the many apologetics journals from top-notch apologetics ministries.
For this post I’m going to share the various Bible versions for which I use in research. Versions I’ve read from cover to cover are the KJV, NAS, NIV, HCB, ESV, God’s Word, and Jewish New Testament. If they are study Bibles I have also read all their notes/commentaries.
Defined King James Bible.
NIV Interlinear Hebrew-English Old Testament
Jewish Study Bible, Tanakh Translation
Septuagint with Apocrypha, Greek and English
Comparative Study Bible (NIV, KJV, NAS, Amp)
NIV/Message Parallel Bible
The WORD (26 translations)
Interlinear Bible, Four Volumes, Jay Green
An American Translation (William F. Beck)
Contemporary English Version, “The Promise” edition, hardbound
English Standard Version
God’s Word Version
Holman Christian Standard Bible, Apologetics Study Bible
J.N. Darby
Jewish New Testament (David H. Stern)
King James Version, The Defender’s Study Bible
King James Version, Key Word Study Bible, Spiros Zodhiates
Living Bible
New American Bible
New American Standard, Ryrie Study Bible
New Century Version
New English Translation
New International Version, Archaeological Study Bible
New International Version, Narrated Bible in Chronological Order, by F. LaGard Smith
New International Version, Study Bible
New King James Version, MacArthur Study Bible
New King James Version, Study Bible
New Living Translation
Revised English Version w/Apocrypha, Oxford Study Bible
Revised Standard Version
Apocrypha, KJV
Interlinear Greek-English New Testament, Jay Green
Parallel New Testament in Greek and English: Interlinear, NIV, KJV
Living Water, the Gospel of John (Logos 21 Version)
Modern Language Testament, The (The New Berkeley Version)
New Testament in Modern English (J.B. Phillips)
Unified Gospels, The (KJV) (John W. Lea)
Harmony of the Gospels (HCSB), by Steven L. Cox and Kendell H. Easley
A Harmony of the Four Gospels (NIV), by Orville E. Daniel
Gospels Interwoven, The (NIV), by Kermit Zarley
Gospel Parallels
These were all great study tools.
That’s my spew for the day.
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