The back of jw bibles (page 2)

snowbird

Never had a negative remark yet ... everything still leads back to the Scriptures anyway.

Yep, Rosalee, the Scriptures are all we need.

Sylvia

I think it is fair to have a concordance in the back of a Bible. JW (and other)bibles have cross references and notes at the bottom of the page. Even still with the Reasoning book, most never take it out of their book bag, or turn to in in the back of their Bible. Since so few pre-study and participate in the meetings, few remember or know what they might have learned in their initial study. The elders aren't even diligent in discussing the pre-baptism questions. It's a shame that jws with 30 years experience still struggle to develop a 5 minute talk for the school.

Blondie

Paralipomenon

It's also rather unnecessary. Most of the witnesses teachings/objections come from a handful of scriptures so if you can remember 10 scriptures or so, you're golden.

It was always funny to have a talk where the speaker needed to use a scripture from one of the "minor prophets" like Amos or Habakkuk. The whole time he was reading it, you would hear many in the congregation flipping and flipping, trying to find it.

carla

Never had a negative remark yet--- well, you got one now.

everything still leads back to the Scriptures anyway. -- for a jw? in context? haha, very funny.

reneeisorym

The reason the friend thought somehow dishonest is because they made it look like they were looking something up in the bible when in reality it was wt literature and the jw did not tell them that.

I believe I understand exactly what she's talking about. Even still, many Bibles have subject indexes in the back and I wouldn't call using them dishonest. A lot of times we think of better things to say later -- at the time the JW was probably sweating to find the answer to her question. Perhaps he should have said, "There is a scripture I know will answer your question. Let me look in the index here and find the one I'm thinking of." But I doubt he was thinking too clearly under the pressure.

Hortensia

I haven't been in for 25 years, so it seems to me that things have changed dramatacilly. We knew our bibles inside out - had bibles that we personally cross-referenced until the margins were full of notes on nearly every page. We could find the scriptures. What has happened since then? Or was I just in a particularly competitive congregation?

Rosalee

Things have changed a bit. My personal Bible was so marked up that a few householders suggested that it showed lack of respect for God's Word to mark up my Bible. To respect anyone who may feel that way, I now use a new unmarked one.

The back of jw bibles