Take Care How You Use Your Resources

We are surrounded by a wealth of Bible study resources, and we’d be foolish not to make use of them. As long as we ensure our use of them is good use of them.

Mark Ward wrote a thoughtful piece for Bible Study Magazine on “3 Reasons to Use Better Bible Study Resources than Strong’s.” Though Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance has been a valuable tool for a very long time, it is all too easy to abuse it, and especially the dictionary in the back of it.

Ward’s 3 reasons:

1. Strong’s dictionary entries lend themselves to abuses.
2. Strong’s dictionary entries often tempt people to make “meaning soup.”
3. Strong’s dictionary can lead Bible readers into word-study fallacies.

Check it out!