The reasons are many, The number one reason is that the “preacher,” either when there is only one preacher or he is the “Lead or Senior pastor,” present themselves as the “bible expert,” i,e, no member of the congregation needs to go any further to “learn” the Bible beyond what the “pastor” preaches. Because they are the “expert,” (Because he went to a seminary or bible college and earned some type of degree(s) ) he will teach you everything that you need to know and that is good enough for you. Most preachers, and I mean 95{5299dab17e5548433dfff9152c34799b7cae913940dfbdb9621acf14fb923d23} of them, have the attitude that “I will teach them what to believe and why they believe it.”
Of course, this arrogance also includes which version of the bible is the “very best” one to use. Since the preacher is the best expert on anything “biblical,” they will tell you why and they use such and such version and defend such and such version. And the preacher is believed based on the false premise that “My preacher would never lie to me or teach something false.”
Before I started to do my own, independent study of Scripture, 24 years ago, I was a die hard KJV ONLY person. Why? Was it because I had come to that conclusion on my own? Or, as was the case, that is what I had been indoctrinated to believe. While the KJV is a decent translation, it is by no means one of the best. Did you know that there are over 50 different English translations of Scripture? And not one translation is identical to any other translation!
Beyond that, I have learned that it is not the words on a page that is the most important thing to know, it is what is the meaning of what was said. I have discovered that every thing in the New Testament has a Jewish context. I strongly suggest that you obtain one or both of these versions of Scripture, 1. The Complete Jewish Study Bible by Rabbi Barry Rubin. 2. The One New Man Bible, by William J Morford. While this one is no longer being published, there are many used copies available. I promise you that you will learn more from either of these two than spending 60 years in one church building,

To have the Geneva Bible – it’s better you buy the 1611 the 400 yr old bible which was Re-written from the Geneva Bible Gods exact spoken words as to how they talked back in to Ancient days. As I have one ,

https://ebible.org/pdf/enggnv/

Aqui la pueden descargar comoketa este link esta actualizado.

That is for worship..

Read the other comments. There is a link to it, so you can download it from the Archive web site.

I forgot to leave the link itself. Here it is, from a poster above:

https://archive.org/details/TheGenevaBible1560

I guess it would help to actually leave the link. Sorry about that. Here it’s is:

https://archive.org/details/TheGenevaBible1560

I know it’s late for your class, and I don’t know if you saw this link, but it is an active link to read (and possibly download) the entire Geneva with maps and notes. A few pages are a bit crooked in scanning, but it’s all there. Thanks be to the poster who gave the link to us.

PS: Under current legal attack are out valuable, priceless online libraries and archives (which help us access and prove the existence of webpages of former censored/yanked down, or otherwise buried from search engine results, especially on the big G search engine, which I don’t use), such as those who expose and share unpopular truths about ungodly liars, and the ungodly liar’s sites themselves.

They are key to accessing what was once available on sites which no longer exist, either just for fun and personal enjoyment, or sometimes to access quite vital and obscure information, or further, at times, that which the establishment would otherwise prefer to keep from the population, such as that which exposes their true motives, and the connections from one organization to another, or their denial of past activities and media. They like to be able to scrub the internet, and archives don’t let them get away with that.

Such sites just today under legal attack, and archive.org has asked for participatory backup (weighing in; of course financial support can always help, but they primarily are asking for the people to be aware and speak up), to help defend the right to have these archives. More about that on their site.

https://archive.org/details/TheGenevaBible1560

Thank you SO much! I’ve been looking for the copy with notes. And I can read it online, and hopefully download and print it on a larger paper (and bind it) than can probably be had by finding one with the maps and notes. They’re usually smaller than 8-1/2 x 11.

Either way, I love the Geneva with original spelling, got an app for my phone, and my phone died, got a new one.

They apparently don’t seem to offer original spelling Geneva Bible apps anymore, (they “fixed” it and “corrected”/modernized the spelling, and that ruins the Geneva). I was devastated, no it just loss of my notes, but the beloved Geneva itself (but it has no margin notes or maps, does have original spelling), until I found one can restore any purchased app for an iPhone, that’s by going through App Store or iTunes, I forgot which, and going to purchase history and clicking on it and restoring it.

The online reviews for any with maps seem to be too small or bad printing, so I’ll look one last time, and see about printing it off if necessary.

And now I have it in my phone, and can see all the notes and maps. Thank you so much for the link!

PS: Apparently online libraries like archive.org are endangered, some legal attacks to prevent us all from having them. And archive helps us prove pages that have been yanked down and denied ever existing. Let’s do our best to support them. There was a hearing today on it, I had planned to go one and participate (there was an option), but was unavoidably unable to. I’ll be checking in on it, however.

Thank you!!

You can try: https://archive.org/details/TheGenevaBible1560