Talking with My good Friend in Cal, As I do Daily
(Like Old Ladies) I'm Portagee Don't Ya Know,

People say I talk too much, I say I don't talk near enough...!!!

AnyHow, Something Dawned On Me, Wow, Even Though James Strong's Took some 35 Years Way Back then, People Only You his Concordance, Here and there. Afew years back I got the Numbers Sold Per Year, It was Only 200,000 Copies, That's It...!!!

And I Doubt Many Used it Like I did I read the Bible every Day All day, Reading while I eat, While in the rest room, Every Where, I could even tell Stories of people telling Me Dude I seen You walking Down the street Reading, It Got so bad for me, that a normal Wake period for me was 2 and three day, No Sleep, The Normal day was not the clock that everyone Else Goes By...!!

A Point is this, When The Bible was Open,
So Was the Concordance, I've gone through at least 7 or 8 Concordance, All full up with Notes, time for a new One...!!!

But my main Point is This,
Few have Used the Concordance to it's Fullest..

But Now with the onset of Computers, As They Say,
We've only just begun...!!!

I did it without the Computer,
But Now that I have one,
Notes and the endless Study,
Can Reveal Sooo Much More...!!!

Seaching One Word Say, Stone 191 times a study this this, Who does Studies to that degree?
That complete,?
not to mention throwing in Words that go with it,
stones 178 times
or Rock and Sand, Earth and there are More,
Not One Person I've met in my 30 years of Studying has taking Word Studies to that degree, With A Book that is a Long Hard study, But now with the onset of the Computer, it can be done Like Never before....!!!

Wow, We live in an age A Time that will allow us the Liberty to Do such studies with ease,
and with the Notes to see thing Later That we may have missed First time Around...!!! Wow...!!!

Rick:

"And I Doubt Many Used it Like I did I read the Bible every Day All day, Reading while I eat, While in the rest room..."

.................Oh my gosh....dude.......Really????

Oh Yeah,
Don't we all read, While we're sitting on the Thrown.?

Short Story,

I was Homeless in Hollywood, in my younger days,

Yes I was reading day and Night, this one day And I remember it well,
I walked down Hollywood blvd, it wasn't the Path I took often because it was most the time full of people, But this day I Walked this way because I was running late and it was the Shortest way, From Hollywood blvd to Santa Monica Blvd, Going to where they feed the Homeless. While Walking I was Reading, Was in heavy study that day I couldn't put the Book Down...!!!

Well I went to all the Bible Studies I could get to,
at all the Different Churches, One this Day at that time later that day at a different church, I was everywher,,,...

Well at this One Bible study, this Lady came up to me, I never met Her before, And She Said, Thank You...!!!

I didn't know why she was thanking me, I didn't do anything, or so I thought,. I asked her, Why you thanking Me?

She went on to tell me that she was a prostitute and that she worked the Street Sunset Blvd, for many Years.

But She Said, She Seen me walking down Hollywood Blvd,
Reading My Bible, While Walking, She Said God spoke to her because of that and drove Straight to a church and had the people there help her to Recieve God and His forgiveness, They did,
and she never Looked Back...!!!

This was about 2 months later that I met her, and she said she was going to Church and Bible Study and was hanging out with these People from that day forward...!!!

Ya Never Know How God's Gonna Use You, or When...!!!
All I was doing was reading My Bible...!!!

She Gave me a Big Hug and Thanked me Again...!!!

My Heart Smiles, When I think of how God Used me, just reading...!!!

Yes, that was in the early 80's,
The Bible is with me everywhere I go, Even to the Bathroom...!!!

Ya Never Know...!!!

Well, my point may have slipped through the Cracks,

The point being,
now that we have the Computer,
we can do studies like never before...!!!

Studing words from the first time mentioned
to the last time mentioned, and everything  in between....!!

As I stated Who has done this? Few.
" The Study of the Word, "Judah" 813 times in 752 verses.
Just to do that would be far beond anything any One of Us has Done.
Let alone, reading, not only that Verse,
But the Verses around it,
to get the full context in Veiw... "

Not Only to do the study, but now we can keep notes and retain more than ever before, ("I forgot about that") can be said way less often.

And Yes, to understand that even in english we read a word, in Hebrew that word may be used with different English words (as well with Greek).

This age we live in,
there is no excuss for Us not to take a study to it's fullest...!!!

I haven't found the Internet, per se, to be much help.

It wasn't the Internet I was speaking of,
Most people that are into the Word, "The Bible"
have some kind of Bible Program.
or at least I think so,
if not,
then there Seach or study is even more limited than I thought...

A Bible Program with a Concondance,
to search every time a word is mentioned,
Reading that verse and the Verses around it,
so as not to take it out of Context.

The Internet can't be peoples main Bible Study tool,
if that's the case,
then it makes sense Why people aren't that Hip to The truth of God's Word...!! 

Even study without a Concordance, isn't study it's just reading,
to remember where something is is just to taxing, and a great Hindrance to a good study.
A Complete Concordance is Paramount.

But it only makes sense to why there is not any intelligent discussion, there is no real study, people are just skimming over things, they're not searching it out fully.

A Concordance, with a Document to write Notes in,
at the very Least a Pen and paper,
athough your gonna have sore fingers,
I think even note pad in windows, A Computer and a Bible,
The Internet is just a added study tool but not that important.

I didn't study the Hebrew or Greek untill long after I started,
English works Just Fine.

"I personally use the margins and edges of the pages of my Bible to "NOTE" in.
In most cases, I use the concordance only to identify a given word and where it appears within and throughout the Bible."

That is just what a Concordance is to be used for..!
(I stoped writing in my bible years ago.)
But touching on notes,
Have you seen my Poerty Version?  There is a web Version and a download of the Whole Bible King James 1769, In Microsoft Word Documents.
Lots of room for Notes, Notes that your grandkids's GreatGrandkids can read all in digital format, And add to.

Yeah, I'm not speaking of a dictionary, just each time a word is used in the Bible and the Verses around It.

Studying the English Word, and Names, for the most part.
and few get into words like "make" or "in", or "thou",
Few I say and guess what I'm being kind, in my 30 some years I have met even one that goes that deep.

I'm just touching on words like Judah, Water, bread, baptism, Earth words like that.

Not even getting to the Hebrew or greek just within the English.

The Very first word I studied was the Word Stone, and then Stones, Now I'm talking every single verse from Genesis to Revelation, Stone 191 times, Stones 178 times, and that search also included Stoned, stony, stoning, stonequarters.

But it didn't stop there, it went on to include rock, rocks, sand, earth, clay.

And I'm saying that's where it started, not only reading that Verse but the verses around that word, It somtimes even included reading the Chapter and chapters before and after.

Studies that went on for Years, And Not by any Stretch the Imagination was the word or act "Skim" involved it that Study.

Just with the Concordance and the Bible.

I'm talking just using that as a base, and then later getting into the Hebrew and greek of it.

only 200,000 Concordances being sold each year, tells me few are studying this way, So with that how can anyone say they know anything? They Can't.

But I'm not even talking to This, I'm talking to those of Old before Strong's and others compiled the Concordances, how indepth was their study how could they find thing out without the Concordance, it was limited at best, and these are the people we are looking to for their knowledge...???

Ya get what ya pay for...!!!

Rick:

What people specifically? Can you give names of teachers who lack knowledge?