Christian /lit/ survey

[Anonymous No.13935624]

What is your favorite
>Bible translation
>Systemic theology work
>Bible commentary
>Devotional work
>Pre-Reformation work
>Creed or Confession

[Anonymous No.13935640]

>>13935624
Gnostic Christianity, the only true Christianity.

[Anonymous No.13936490]

>>13935624
KJV for English
?
no man made commentary, you let the Holy Spirit teach you all things like the bible says

[Anonymous No.13936546]

The Imitation of Christ is the only book (besides the Bible) I read

[Anonymous No.13936556]

>>13936490
Wow, look how those other Protestant Bibles do even worse than the KJV. Surely ALL non-KJV Bibles must be terrible!

[Anonymous No.13936577]

>>13935624
>Bíblia de Jerusalém (Portuguese)
>Paul Tillich's Systemic Theology
>--
>The Cloud of Unknowing
>--
>Last chapter in the last edition of Bohme's "The Way to Christ"

[Anonymous No.13936581]

>>13936546
good pick

[Anonymous No.13936604]

>>13935624
NKJV
don't need one
don't need one
dunno what that is, sounds papist
papist idolatry
Anglican

[Anonymous No.13936695]

>>13936604
>papist idolatry
>Is Anglican
>Literally Catholicism without a pope, saints and all
>They even canonized Thomas More and John Henry Newman

[Anonymous No.13936750]

>>13936695
we don't worship saints though or even discuss them that much

[Anonymous No.13936761]

>>13936490
Jesus Christ be praised. Heretics will be banished

[Anonymous No.13936775]

>>13936490
What are your views on the removal of these verses from these new bible versions?

They are all justified by the idea that they weren't in the original scripts, but I still smell something fishy. All the removals and editions diminish the power and importance of Jesus.

[Anonymous No.13937153]

>>13935624
>Bible translation
ESV Study Bible (the one I use most often) and KJV Spurgeon Bible

>Systemic theology
Louis Berkhof and Norman Geisler

>Bible commentary
Matthew Henry, Matthew Poole and William MacDonald

>Devotional work
Holiness by J.C. Ryle, The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer and Charles Spurgeon's We Shall See God

>Pre-Reformation work
The Confessions of St. Augustine

>Creed
The Apostles Creed and The Nicene Creed

>Confession
The Westminster Confession of Faith and The Heidelberg Catechism

[Anonymous No.13937162]

>>13935624
Die, christcuck!

[Anonymous No.13937169]

>>13937162
Uncalled for.

[Anonymous No.13937181]

>>13935624
I’m a renaissance style hermetic occultist who openly wages war on Christianity.

[Anonymous No.13938077]

>>13935624
>Bible translation
KJV
>Systemic theology work
A Body of Divinity by Thomas Watson
>Bible commentary
Geneva Bible notes / Matthew Henry
>Devotional work
Psalms and Westminster Confession
>Pre-Reformation work
Confessions of Saint Augustine
>Creed or Confession
Westminster Confession of Faith

[Anonymous No.13938094]

>>13935624
>King James Version
>The Periphyseon
>None in particular
>The Cloud of Unknowing
>Lives of the Desert Fathers
>Roman Catholic

[Anonymous No.13938099]

>>13937153
I've heard the ESV takes a baptist position and you have the Spurgeon Bible but are you not a credo-baptist?
>The Westminster Confession of Faith

[Anonymous No.13938174]

>>13936775
Every time something has been removed from modern translations because "they weren't in the original scripts" they later find an older manuscript with them in, but they're never readded. It's fucking absurd.

[Anonymous No.13938258]

>Translation
Oxford REB for clarity/accuracy, KJV for poetics
>Systemic Theology
Institutes of the Christian Religion
>Commentary
John Calvin's
>Devotional
Pilgrim's Progress
>Pre-Reformation
Apophthegmata Patrum
>Creed
Cambridge Platform

[Anonymous No.13938262]

>>13935624
>Bible translation
English: Jerusalem bible or Orthodox Study Bible
Russian: New Russian Translation
>Bible commentary
Lopuhin
>Devotional work
What is that, is it some Catholic thing?
>Creed
Nicene
>Pre-Reformation
On Incarnation, st.basil social justice notes.

[Anonymous No.13938309]

>>13938262
>What is that, is it some Catholic thing?
You're Orthodox so think Jordanville prayer book or similar works.

[Anonymous No.13938324]

Offtopic question - is confession worth a read?

[Anonymous No.13938346]

>>13938324
Well it is part of the Western canon of literature.

[Anonymous No.13938356]

>>13938324
Despite what you'll read on /lit/ and other online Catholic forums Augustine and Aquinas weren't written for lay people nor parish priests, they were written for extremely well educated theologians in a classroom setting.

[Anonymous No.13938362]

>>13938356
Oops, didn't mean to post. Anyway, they're definitely worth reading, but they aren't a good starting point.

[Anonymous No.13938372]

>>13938174
Name a specific verse for which this has happened and your evidence.

[Anonymous No.13938402]

>>13938362
Well, i guess 90% of info will go over my head

[Anonymous No.13938438]

>>13935624
Don't have one, I use several
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New Jerome Biblical Commentary
The Homilies of Clement
Justin Martyr's 'Dialogue With Trypho'
Agnostic

[Anonymous No.13938451]

>>13936490
Then should i ignore everything you say since it will be coming from a man? I can claim it's from the spirit but who wouldn't claim so.

[Anonymous No.13938452]

>>13938402
Aquinas wrote 'The Compendium of Theology' as a summa of the summa more accessible for the layman

[Anonymous No.13938567]

>>13938372
Uh, seriously? there's a pretty fucking famous example in Deuteronomy 32.43.

[Anonymous No.13938830]

>>13938567
Except that was never taken out of translations, an earlier version can be reconstructed from the LXX and Qumran scrolls, which is slightly longer than the Hebrew. We're talking about the KJV which actually uses the later, shorter, version from the Masoretic Text.

[Anonymous No.13938844]

Real talk, why does God ﷻ exist (I'm not an atheist I just think it's an important question)? And please don't give me that ridiculous Christian explanation of His existence being logically necessary since the Trinity is violation of the law of non contradiction, if anything according to Trinitarian theology it would be logically necessary for God ﷻ to NOT exist (If the Son = God, and Father = God ∴ the Son = the Father, the only alternative being the Son ∈ God, which is polytheism). So what's the answer to the initial question?

Real talk