Who can help me, i want to buy a study Bible with good notes for my wife, so which study bible is better :

ESV Reformation( Geneva) Study Bible or NIV Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible ?

ESV Reformation Study Bible, Hardcover - Edited By: R.C. Sproul - Christianbook.com

NIV Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible, Hardcover - By: Bible - Christianbook.com

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* Ralph Wilms (7-10-1974)
* Church : Christengemeente Roermond (The Netherlands)
* Credobaptist who hold towards Covenant Theology
* Husband of Reena & father of Naomie and Gideon
* 1729 Goat Yard Declaration of Faith
* 1646 & 1689 Baptist Confession of faith
* 1595 The Lambeth Articles
* 1618-1619 The Canons of Dordt

I would recommend the NIV study Bible. I say this because the study notes are almost the same as the ESV bible with the exception that the NIV notes also correspond to the Three Forms of Unity and the Westminster Standards. If you can live without the confessional notes, then I would recommend the ESV. The ESV is just my personal preference.

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Kenneth Kneip
New St. Peter's Presbyterian Church (PCA)
Dallas, TX
M. Div. student @ WTS Dallas

The NIV version has all the same notes as the RC Sproul version and then adds a lot more to them, this is a very good bible despite it being in NIV. Plus, like the previos poster stated it has the Three Forms of Unity and Westminster standards. So in essence if you get the NIV you are getting the notes from both.

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Erick Bohndorf, Covenant Baptist Church, KS
http://qayaqtraveler.blogspot.com/
The question for us today is, will we be like the majority of Israel and continue to look in fear at the giants in the land and urge our fellow Christians to be "realistic," or will we be like Joshua and Caleb and faithfully follow our king, trusting to fulfill every one of his promises completely?

I recommend getting BOTH!

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~ Steven Bradford ~
Member Covenant Presbyterian, Chattanooga, TN

For translation...get the NKJV Geneva; for the notes Get the NIV Spirit one.

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soli Deo gloria!
~N!ck Nap!er~
Ordained Pastor, Associate, Cornerstone Church, NC
Christians are like snow covered dung; it is the purity of the covering which the Father sees.
-Luther-
There is nothing more ugly than a Christian orthodoxy without understanding or without compassion. -Francis Schaeffer-

I'm still waiting for someone to do an AV John Gill Study Bible...

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J. M. - Baptist - Ontario, Canada - Feileadh Mor

Ralph, I use the KJV Thomson chain reference. I do not believe the NIV is a faithful translation.

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Bert Mulder
Elder of the First Protestant Reformed Church of Edmonton
Edmonton Alberta Canada

Both are good, but the NIV translation notwithstanding, the NIV Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible is better, hands down. You can use the notes and read along with the KJV or some other translation of your choice.

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Chris Poe
Mandeville, LA

"There are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it--the lunatic fringe in all reform movements." Theodore Roosevelt

I have both, swallow my pride over the NIV, and consider "The Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible" to be the better of the two.

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Dennis E. McFadden, Ex Mainline Baptist (in Remission)
Atherton Baptist Homes, CEO
First Baptist Church of Alhambra, Member, Transformation Ministries (CA)

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