My father had a new testament only version of the Bible. Is this common?

i had one also. Funny enough soon after being forced to read the old testament in sunday school i became atheist

Really? For me the atheism pill was from the NT, not the OT.

My dad has two. He has a King James Bible that he reads at home and a pocket sized New Testament that he kept in his pocket when he was in combat in the Marine Corps.

how so?

The book of Mormon did it in for me.

Thanks mom and dad, you looney fucks

The OT is horrible, violent, blatantly authoritarian, and very obviously self-serving/self-pandering. I don't really believe in a deity, but I believe that if there is a deity out there who created the universe and at least takes some part in running it, it's the sort of OT god; our universe is not particularly well run.

The NT, on the other hand, is far, far more internally inconsistent, and just less consistent with reality in general. Why does a supposedly eternal being reverse course like that after a thousand or so years? Why are so many quotes of the older testament actually just wrong? Why can't Matthew count? And why, if we're to believe that this deity really is ultrakind, and Good with a capital G as opposed to just powerful and jealous, why is the world so shit? We're being punished for our sins? Bullshit! For starters, most of the theological underpinnings of what sin are and how it works are blatantly inconsistent with the supposedly also perfectly true divine revelations in the OT. But even if you accept the premise that we are in fact being punished for a grave sin of being what our creator created us as, why do you have things like animals and other, non-ensouled life, who did not and cannot sin, heir to all the pains and travails and punishments that this "Good" and "Just" God dishes out, apparently more or less at random?

Tl;dr. The OT makes me sick to my stomach. The NT is just flat out impossible to believe.

Yeah, they're common for mass distribution. For example, they're often given away on college campuses.

But the title of the codex in your pic says ΑΠΟΚΡΥΦΟΝ

i guess im not really in the best postion to answer any of your questions as i havent read the bible in over a decade now
but god isnt necessarily good in the new testament. If you are devoted to him your soul is respected in the afterlife, thats pretty much it. I cant remember any quotes that make him sound good.

That wasn't actually the core of my objection, and I'm sorry if I wasn't clear.

Rather, what I meant to say is that my rejection of the NT was based on grounds of implausibility. It just doesn't hold together even if you accept its own premises. The OT has its warts in that direction to, but it does seem to hold up better, which is remarkable given that it's about 4 times as long by volume and written over a considerably longer period. My objections with the OT are ethical, that the god portrayed in it is evil or uncaring, and contradictions with the outside world contained within it. My objections to the NT are primarily based on contradictions with other parts of the NT and parts of the OT. It's the "weaker" section of the two, and because I was reading this primarily in my teenage years, I noted its faults more readily.

I have a cuple of those too, i dont know why, i think i got one from school, not the US.

OY VEY!

Very common. They usually given for free in pocket size.

Yes it is, though, I wouldn't see why anyone would need it, the Old Testament is important to understand how it was used in the New Testament.

ESV is the best commercial one to get, it's literal and easy to understand, it helps provide better theological translation, adds in the Dead Sea Scrolls that make certain passages make sense, it's an all round solid choice.

KJV is technically alright if not outdated in language, but it has many of the text has missing words and variants not found in the original manuscripts of Alexandria and Sinaiticus. It's literal yet it's vocabulary is less precise. It's funny since KJV-onlyists love to meme about how demonic the NIV is, yet their book contains more problems with variants than the NIV.

>The OT is horrible, violent, blatantly authoritarian, and very obviously self-serving/self-pandering.
>Le argument from outrage meme
>I don't understand OT cultural context

wew lad

youtube.com/watch?v=1C3q3Zr_R8E

You can still see the holes in the fold made for the binding in the early papyri.

Well, I have an unannotated copy of the Bible that only has the NT, so I suppose it's pretty common.