Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #468379 in Books
• Published on: 1990-03-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 2176 pages

Customer Reviews

Pure Bible!
A brilliant bible, not really any personal opinion in it as its all based of correct greek and hebrew meanings.
Joinms scripture up correctly, and the commentrys really bring you around the bible well. A truely gifted teacher, and casts mens traditions aside and gets straight to the truth of the bible!

The only study bible worth reading.
The Companion Bible is the only study bible to give God's true meanings behind the scripture. All other study bible commentaries are worthless.

Some useful stuff, but I'd take Scofield over it any day
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Strengths: Dispensational/Pre-millenial in Theology, has a Biblical chronology, special type for O.T. quotations in the N.T., the 198 appendices contain plenty of useful information (pretty good overall), nice book/passage structures which are handy, some fairly good notes on verses here and there. Some of the nice things about the genuine leather edition I have is the sewn binding and two ribbon markers which are nice to have-- never seen any other study Bible like it. The margins are not exactly "wide" but they do leave enough space to write in your own cross references.

Weaknesses: Hyper-dispensational-- Bullinger eliminates water baptism and the Lord's supper as proper church age practice, and considers only the prison epistles to be church age doctrine-- (this is not strongly emphasized by Bullinger however), and sometimes has the habit of splitting splits till there's only splinters (some "wrongly dividing the word of truth")! The critical notes are a waste of paper-- subjective and basically garbage, many of the marginal notes get in the way more than help (usually being information that is either obvious or not true). A better way to fill the space taken up by the critical notes would have been a nice set of cross references, which this study Bible lacks. Hyper-dispensational theology makes Bullinger absolutely incapable of making practical application from a passage (also reeks of dead-orthodoxy here and there due to Bullinger's hyper-Calvinism).

Comments: This is a study Bible I'd get if I already had something really good (like an old Scofield Reference Bible), and wanted some extra notes as a supplement. I would not recommend investing in the Companion Bible as your only study Bible. Some people wouldnt have anything to do with it, period, but I have the policy of not limiting my sources when it comes to study. You could get stuff a lot worse than the Companion Bible, but I wouldnt say this is exactly the best. My description may have sounded a bit negative, but I give it 3 stars-- better than "fair" but not "great."