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#42 - Explanation of why the Bible Lesson Study Aid is always without S&H text

by Robert Nguyen Cramer

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Question/insight #42: "In the BibleTexts' weekly Bible Lesson Study Aid, would it possible to include correlative passages from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures?"

Response #42:

In respect for The Christian Science Publishing Society's copyright of the Christian Science Quarterly, I put online only Bible Lesson Study Aids that provide additional, optional tools for the study of the Bible Lesson. I purposely do not include correlative texts from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. This is also in respect for the spirit of a By-Law in the Manual of The Mother Church on page 43:13. In fact none of the texts that I include are provided in the Full-Text version of the Christian Science Quarterly.

In addition to the textual commentary I provide, the English edition of the BibleTexts study aid (at http://www.bibletexts.com/bt-tw-pl.htm) includes the current week's Bible Lesson's Bible verses from several different Bible versions, including

(a) a special King James Version with the Strong's numbers (representing the Hebrew and Greek words) enclosed within < >
(b) New Revised Standard Version
(c) Today's English Version (also known as the Good News Bible)

In addition to the textual commentary, the Spanish edition of the BibleTexts study aid (at http://www.bibletexts.com/bt-tw-sp.htm) includes the Bible Lesson's Bible verses from several different Bible versions, including:

(a) Dios Habla Hoy (also known as the Versión Popular)
(b) New Revised Standard Version
(c) Today's English Version

In order to read the Bible Lesson, you need:

(1) a copy of the Christian Science Quarterly,

plus either bound copies of both

(2) a Bible, and
(3) Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,

OR Concord, which includes both the King James Version Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

The Quarterly is also available in diskette form, so that you can read the Bible Lesson via Concord, but it is not available online.

For more information on different ways to obtain the 3 above-mentioned items needed for reading the Bible Lesson, you can browse:

http://www.bibletexts.com/bl-components.htm.

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