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jwb267
to dispose of a bible. as a construction worker i find many things along the hiway. this morning i found a bible that had been rained upon and torn very bad, i guess that someone had laid it on the roof of their car and forgot it when they left church
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  • mateomasfeo
    Yes.

    Put it in a hotel room.
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  • select-fire
    Do a free giveaway on GB. You are bound to be flooded with responses....[:o)][:o)]
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  • jimbowby
    [8D]-Well jwb-you know what they say ???



    quote:Originally posted by jwb267
    to dispose of a bible. as a construction worker i find many things along the hiway. this morning i found a bible that had been rained upon and torn very bad, i guess that someone had laid it on the roof of their car and forgot it when they left church



    --Keep it, there's a reason for your discovery !!


    --JIMBO
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  • jwb267
    quote:Originally posted by HobbyGuy
    I don't think that disposing of it is the proper course of action. Maybe you could drop it off at your local church? Someone would likely appreciate it (especially the "big man" upstairs). [;)]

    Jim


    the bible is in two parts with many pages missing and the ones that are there are stuck together
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  • spryor
    there must be some readable pages. Close your eyes, open it and point your finger to a verse. Read it, heed it, and pass it to someone else to do the same.[:)]
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  • jwb267
    quote:Originally posted by spryor
    there must be some readable pages. Close your eyes, open it and point your finger to a verse. Read it, heed it, and pass it to someone else to do the same.[:)]

    i have did so, but no one else wants anything to do with it
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  • Colt Super
    You are getting a message, my friend.

    Doug
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  • jimdeere
    It's called "Divine Intervention."
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  • tsavo303
    give it to someone else and run away
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  • jwb267
    maybe i am old fashion, but i respect the bible as much as i do the flag of the US. i just cant seem to throw it in the trash or burn it with garbage
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  • spryor
    Leave it on someones porch, or desk...
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  • givette
    Pages stuck together?? C'mon...'fess up. You found a Playboy. Joe
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  • JamesRK
    jwb267, I've never seen this question come up before and you had me totally stumped. I was curious what the answer was too, so I decided to do some internet research and I would post a link for you. Well, evidently there is no generally accepted "proper" or "correct" way to dispose of a Bible.

    I found a few suggestions from people who are supposed to know this kind of stuff. The one I liked best was to wrap the bible or put it in a box and burry it.

    If you're not in a hurry to dispose of it, I'll ask my preacher Wednesday night. He may not know either, since none of the internet Divinity experts know.
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  • rogue_rob
    Flush it down the toilet. It was good enough for the Koran in Gitmo[}:)][}:)][}:)]


    Really though, how many have just thrown a bible away? EVEN those little pocket ones count as a bible, right?? Nobody just wants to admit it.
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  • FEENIX
    Proper Bible disposal
    Consider a burial, complete with liturgy

    What's the proper way to dispose of unusable Bibles?

    Oh, how I wish this were a problem for us. We have too many Bibles in wonderful mint condition.

    Dispose of it as you would any other book. Recycle the paper if you can. It's how the Bible is used and treated when it is working that matters most.

    But in this disposable world where everything is printed, used, recycled or trashed and there is little of the sense of the sacred and holy around us, here's another suggestion of how to treat these old servants of God: Follow the practice of our Jewish friends.

    When Hebrew scrolls of the Scripture that contain the written sacred name of God are no longer usable, they are gathered, placed in a coffin and buried in a cemetery with a liturgy of committal. Why not take a Bible that has become unusable, wrap it in a protective cover and bury it with an appropriate liturgy of committal? Don't burn old Bibles because in our day this would signal just the opposite of what we want to say about the Bible.

    http://www.thelutheran.org/article/article_buy.cfm?article_id=4106
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  • sarge_3ad
    Mail it to me and I'll bury it with respect under the watchful eyes of this Mary statue that my boys recovered from a ditch where someone discarded it. I'm not Catholic, but anything helps these days. The statue stands proudly in my pasture/ park facing east.

    IM001327.jpg
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  • iwannausername
    Sarge - not a religous guy, but that pic is *very* neat...
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  • spurgemastur
    I don't think the bible as an object is infused with any special meaning. What you do to a bible has only as much meaning as you consciously give the act. I'd put it in a recycle bin.
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  • zipperzap
    Mail it to Iran.
    [:D]
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