Which Bible Should I Get My Non Believing Bil?

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Friends: Had an exchange with my non-believing BIL recently. He told one of my teen sons very recently, he “would not be interested in going to church, not in a million years…” 😦 After I invited him with us recently. Also, he is a race car driver, and hubby and one teen son in particular, have gone to see him race his car several times. Son says he uses profanity up to yin yang. I asked him recently, very gently, if he could try to watch it around our son, that we are attempting to raise our children up in a Christian manner. Yikes. Well, what a chance to “witness” to him after 18 years of marriage. A little scary actually. Friends, he is a lost man, with a numerous string of ladies. :confused: Told him how God only wants the best for his life, and if he didn’t have a Bible, I would like to get one for him. Of course he never responded. As I am the only Catholic here, my hubby, (his brother) is a Prot. if you can call it that, well actually a fence sitter who hates church, but well, at least he attends for the sake of our boys. My question: what Bible should I get him? He probably frowns on me, his SIL, now a Catholic, etc.,

Which Bible do you all think might be the best one for a man? I was thinkin maybe a Men’s Devotional Bible. But there are no Catholic ones. 😦 Why not? I do ask. Most pitiful. If I get him one without all the books Prots took out, then what is that saying? Please help me on this one friends.
 
This will let a lot of people from the area know my parish, but our pastor races cars. Really. He blew a tranny 2 or 3 weeks ago after qualifying. He’s still a good priest, in fact excellent.

If there is a Catholic version of the Life Recovery Bible, that might not be a bad choice. Otherwise, as long as it is easy to read and has the whole Bible in it, I don’t see a big deal excepting Oxford (might be a bit too wordy for him).

I gave my uncle, who was looking for a Bible study but not Catholic, Scott Hahn’s a Father Who Keeps His Promises. It might go nicely as an addition.
 
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This will let a lot of people from the area know my parish, but our pastor races cars. Really. He blew a tranny 2 or 3 weeks ago after qualifying. He’s still a good priest, in fact excellent.

If there is a Catholic version of the Life Recovery Bible, that might not be a bad choice. Otherwise, as long as it is easy to read and has the whole Bible in it, I don’t see a big deal excepting Oxford (might be a bit too wordy for him).

I gave my uncle, who was looking for a Bible study but not Catholic, Scott Hahn’s a Father Who Keeps His Promises. It might go nicely as an addition.
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Thanks so much Outin Chgoburbs!!!

Question: Should I absolutely get a Catholic Bible even if they are not a Catholic? There seem to be so many good ones that are not Catholic Bibles, like Men’s Devotional Bibles, as you said Life Recovery Bible, etc. But now that I’m a Catholic and realize yes, the whole Bible is important, what would it be saying if I bought anybody an incomplete one? Please respond if you can ASAP cuz want to get it today!!! P.S. What is the Hahn’s book about? who is it geared towards? THANKS!!! You’re great and so helpful friend. I’m thinking of getting him The Catholic Answer Bible. What do you think?
 
You should definatly get a CATHOLIC Bible, why bother giving him one that has been altered. The NAB is th same one they use for the mass reading everyday in the US. It is easy to read, and a great study bible. I still have mine from High School with highliter marks on several pages from my studies!

Scott Hanh has a really good book, The Lamb’s Supper. This is one all "cradle"catholics and anyone interested in the book of Revelation should read! FYI, the Book of Revelation was the push beind Scott’s conversion, he was not finding the answers in his own Protestant faith. In this book Scott shows us the original explanation of the book of Rev. He admits he was not the first to figure this out, it is in the RC history. The book of Revelation is very closly connected to the Roman Catholic Mass we celebrate on a daily basis. Once you read this book, you will paricipate in the mass in a whole new light. For me it was a feeling of why had no one explained this to me before now!

That’s my 2 cents!
 
My best guess is that he would not read it anyway. I would suggest something a little less threatening to him like, “Tuedsays with Morriey” or “The Propose Driven Life”

Keep up the good work.
 
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