Writing in Books

Let me start off by saying that I'm a Christian and proud of it. However, I'm still what I'd consider a "baby Christian." I have a hard time getting into the Word of God and really studying it. So, I bought a book today that's supposed to help me with that. Unfortunately, in my opinion, it recommends purchasing a Bible that you're going to write in. *gasp* Write in a book?! Write in the Holy Bible?! You have got to be kidding! I can barely underline a verse I find relevant to my life today!

I view everything written in a bound book as sacred. A print out is a different story. I'll highlight and make notes in the margins to my heart's content. Those can always be reprinted. No big deal. But a printed and bound book is hard for me to write in.

The book I'm reading now, Living in the Book, says not to worry about writing in the Bible. To see the Bibles you use up doing a personal Bible study as a testament to studying the Holy Word faithfully. Okay, I can see that. Really, I can.

What interests me is that not everyone has that issue with marking in books. As a matter of fact, I accuse my husband of being "highlighter happy." He will highlight anything in a book he owns if it even mildly interests him or strikes him as applicable. Once, as a joke, I bought him a large collection of multi-colored highlighters. He loved those things. LOL

Perhaps, in purchasing a Bible with the full intent of writing all over it from the beginning, then maybe I could actually do it. I will never know unless I try it. *smile* I'll think about it some more while I read more of this book. Perhaps I should attempt to highlight interesting thoughts in this one first... Though I almost want to shudder at the idea.

I'll have to consider this some more before I fully decide. We're talking about having to overcome a serious personality trait here. Perhaps paying extra to just print out my own Bible will have to be the answer. I use E-Sword. It's an electronic Bible that a wonderful programmer put together and offers for free. I run it under Vista and it works just fine. I also ran it under XP before that computer crashed and it was fine there too. I'd definitely recommend that you take a look at it. As of right now, that's the option I like the best. Print outs are my friend. *grin*