Favourite Colour Highlighter for Bible study

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What’s your favourite colour highlighter for bible study?
 
I do not use highlighters. I pefer to take notes in a separate notebook and then put them in a Word Document for indexing.

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WanderAimlessly:
I do not use highlighters. I pefer to take notes in a separate notebook and then put them in a Word Document for indexing.

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Me too… Either real or imagined I think there is something disrespectful about “marking up” the bible. Anyway, and thanks to modern technology I can copy and paste. :cool:
 
I heard that a priest said that if you don’t highlight your not actually reading. I don’t know, there’s just something comforting in opening up my Jerusalem Bible and seeing all my favourite passages leaping at me from the page. Disrespectful? Sounds a little weird that we’d give honour to the physical book when its the words inside that are important (than again the priest does kiss the Gospel) hey I may be wrong but I love highlighting, I’d take notes but I get enough writing done at school, I just want to savour the mystery and wisdom.
 
I don’t use highlighters in any book, including the Bible, because I find the highlighting to be tremendously distracting. It’s almost as if my eyes are drawn directly to those pink or yellow lines, to the exclusion of everything else on the page. I prefer using sticky notes. 🙂

When I was in school, I started out using highlighters in my textbooks, and found that on several pages, practically the whole page would be highlighted, thus negating the value of the highlighting. I think this would be even a bigger problem with the Bible, where it’s all important.

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I do not use highlighters. If I did I will probably use the color according to the liturgical season.
 
I have to Ignatius Bibles: a clean hard-bound one and a paperback “dirty” one. The “dirty” one is the one with all the highlightings which I use for study. For meditation and prayer, I use the clean one.

I use a color scheme (all fluorescent)

Yellow - Liturgy
Orange & Green - Apologetics (I use two to highlight adjoining passages that defend separate doctrines)
Aqua - Objections
Blue - History
Violet - Language
Red - Christian living, morals and values, and everything else.
 
I used to use highlighters in my AKV of 1611. I thought it would help me when I go before Protestants to discuss the Bible. What I found out was that all I got was a comic book. Every page had so maney colors it gave me a headache!

I also discovered by highlighting that I was prone to have preopinions when doing Scripture study. The highlights made me look at certain verses but I overlooked others.

I now have a study Bible and I do not even write notes in it. It is the same as when I got it. When I study I want no bias notes on my part. I do mark in Bibles still like my Mormon KJV with specific purposes. But my main study Bible is just as it was printed.

Before I forget, when I was Baptist I used to write in the margins of my Bible. When I learned I was wrong in what I wrote I would scratch it out. My margins also became littered with scratch outs too. An example is that I used to think paradise meant heaven when talking about the theif beside Jesus. Thankfully the Catholics pointed out my miss-self-interpretation. The Baptists just really didn’t care I guess?

I still mark in some of my Bibles but on a limited scale with a specific purpose. If every word in Scripture is from God then you might as well spray paint every page yellow, or pink, or blue, etc…
 
I’ve looked at bibles with verses color-coded by theme, both Protestant and Catholic translations, and they are the most distracting bibles I’ve ever tried to read.

Personally, I prefer a pencil. Among other things, it has the virtue of not bleeding through the back of tissue-thin pages.

The most ironic color-coded bible I ever saw was the one owned by a friend who was studying to be an Assemblies of God pastor. He had, as part of his formal study program, highlighted nearly every verse in John 20 except 20:22-23. He was arguing with me that confession to a priest was wrong … until I pointed out those two verses his instructor had deliberately skipped.
 
Another vote for pencil…Highlighters bleed through the page. Also, as has been pointed out, they are distressingly permanent. With a pencil, I can mark verses, write in the margins–& take it out later, if I decide I want to change something…
 
I personally, do not use highlighters. If I need to find something, I’ll use my HTML versions of the Bible and ctrl+f or an online search engine. Much easier for finding verses quickly. I’ve never personally liked highlighters.
 
I like using colored ‘bible pencils’. They don’t bleed like highlighters and you vary the intensity of the color by how hard you press or how many times you ‘color over’ a passage. Our catholic book store in town carries them in about 5 colors. I also use the ones I got at the Bible Timeline seminar.
 
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CarolAnnSFO:
When I was in school, I started out using highlighters in my textbooks, and found that on several pages, practically the whole page would be highlighted, thus negating the value of the highlighting. I think this would be even a bigger problem with the Bible, where it’s all important.
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When I was in 5th grade, I decided I would read the whole Bible. (It ended up taking a very long time.) At first, I decided to highlight everything I’d read. One of my teachers noticed this, and seeing pages that were completely yellow, she told me that I should really only highlight the important parts. I answered, “It’s *all *important!”
Now, I do highlight in my Bible, although not everything is highlighted. I have a special color for apologetics verses, so it’s easy for me to find a verse if I know the general area it’s in. That’s proved to be quite useful. I also highlight things that jump out at me just reading the Bible, or in prayer. Having used my current Bible for a few years now, it’s like I have in the highlighted portions a partial record of how God has spoken to me over the past few years. It’s wonderful to go back, see a verse highlighted, and remember why it seemed so important to me at the time I highlighted it. It brings back good memories of moments in my relationship with God. I recently started writing in the margins of my Bible as well, but I do that in pencil. If a verse really jumps out at me, I write it down on a dry-erase board or type it up and put it on a bulletin board. I have one verse up that’s been there for 10 months now, because it seems like when I think I’ve exhausted it, it comes back in a new way.
 
I don’t highlight; I make notes in the margins with a pencil.
 
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When I was in 5th grade, I decided I would read the whole Bible. (It ended up taking a very long time.) At first, I decided to highlight everything I’d read. One of my teachers noticed this, and seeing pages that were completely yellow, she told me that I should really only highlight the important parts. I answered, “It’s *all *important!”
Now, I do highlight in my Bible, although not everything is highlighted. I have a special color for apologetics verses, so it’s easy for me to find a verse if I know the general area it’s in. That’s proved to be quite useful. I also highlight things that jump out at me just reading the Bible, or in prayer. Having used my current Bible for a few years now, it’s like I have in the highlighted portions a partial record of how God has spoken to me over the past few years. It’s wonderful to go back, see a verse highlighted, and remember why it seemed so important to me at the time I highlighted it. It brings back good memories of moments in my relationship with God. I recently started writing in the margins of my Bible as well, but I do that in pencil. If a verse really jumps out at me, I write it down on a dry-erase board or type it up and put it on a bulletin board. I have one verse up that’s been there for 10 months now, because it seems like when I think I’ve exhausted it, it comes back in a new way.
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I remember reading the New Testament and just highlighting everything that had a profound spiritual meaning. A few seconds later I was looking at a green page.
 
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porthos11:
I use a color scheme (all fluorescent)

Yellow - Liturgy
Orange & Green - Apologetics (I use two to highlight adjoining passages that defend separate doctrines)
Aqua - Objections
Blue - History
Violet - Language
Red - Christian living, morals and values, and everything else.
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Wow! That is some serious organization! I use “Yellow” for all of the above.
However I find my penciled notes in the margins to often be of more value than the highlighter.
 
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