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I'm back with an exciting announcement for y'all. I hope you'll be as excited as I am about it. For a long time, I have been looking for a good Bible study tool for all of my devices, be it desktop, my laptop, my cell phone, or a tablet that will allow good casual reading when I just wanted to do that or also allow me to deep dive into Bible study that was non-denominational. Now, you can imagine that was very hard to find and also that didn't have a whole bunch of ads on it and wasn't really expensive and that made it even more difficult to find. So, I decided to put my 25 years of software development, my talents to use to go ahead and create the tool that I would like to use. And after I did that, to release it to all of y'all. So, it is ready to for testing for you guys to give it a give it a go.
see what you think. When you first open up the tool, it's going to ask you for your language. It supports English and Spanish and French, though, for Spanish and French. Right now, it only has the Bible and cross references. It doesn't have commentary or the encyclopedia. That's coming, but it's expensive to get that stuff translated, so that's going to take a while. Uh, so I'm just going to choose English and click this button here.
The first thing it'll ask you is your divine name preference. So for the t tetetrogrammadin different bibles render it different ways. The most common is the Lord in all capitals. There's Yahweh, Jehovah, Yhovah, and just Yahwah. You can pick what you would prefer and it will replace in the text of the Bible your preferred rendering everywhere it appears. I'm just going to use the default version for the Bible translation that we're reading and say preference. Now you're in the interface.
You can choose the Bible you want to use here. There's a bunch of them. American Standard Version. I always did like the American Standard, but it has some older language. Derby Dway Reigns if you're Catholic. King James version. The Open English Bible, but that only has the Greek scriptures, not the Hebrew.
The Restored Name King James version. The World English Bible, which is my personal favorite and I'll be demonstrating with, and Young's literal translation. So, you pick the Bible you want to use. You pick the chapter, the book, and the chapter you want to look at, and then you can start to read. You'll notice a lot of the words are underlined. If you click on an underlined word, it's going to take you into the encyclopedia entry for that term. Now, this encyclopedia is designed to be easy to understand.
It is not highly technical though you can see it does often show the original uh Hebrew and Greek language terms and it is non-denominational. So when it talks about that particular uh subject it will often give you various theological perspectives. You can see for this one the Orthodox Christian, the Catholic theology, Protestant tradition so you can have a good well-rounded understanding of what different Christians think about things. It heavily cites scripture, so you can click on those to see what it says. Very, very useful. Now, the encyclopedia is pretty uh pretty comprehensive. It has over 6,500 entries.
So, lots and lots of underlined terms. You'll see very useful anytime you want to do a deep dive about what these things mean in more detail. You'll also see this link here at the end of most verses. This is to pull up the cross reference scriptures. So you can see this is in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And if you click on this, it'll show other related verses like John 1-3. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God.
The word was God. And Hebrews 11:3, by faith we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God and so on. So all of these related scriptures very useful and something you do not find in a lot of online tools.
Also, you have commentary icons. Let me go to the next chapter. So, anytime there's commentary, you'll see this icon right here. If you click that, this is different from the encyclopedia. This discusses, you can see commentary in verses 1 through3. It discusses what's going on in an easy to understand, again, non-denominational view with lots of scriptural references. It's a great way to do your Bible reading.
read the section, then read the commentary. Read the section, read the commentary. Or if you prefer, you can have the commentary showing at all times, and just scan it as you read. That works, too. This works both on the desktop, laptop, tablets, and on your phone. Even though it's a smaller screen, the commentary will be on the bottom if you prefer that view. So, very useful.
You can search for scriptures. It is not a full text search yet, but that is coming. So, you can type in a scripture or multiple scriptures if you want to that you want to read and then it will load them. For the encyclopedia, you can get a full encyclopedia here. You can click on a letter to see the individual entries and then click on an entry to view it. Or you can type in a word and it'll find it and you can click on that to view the entry. Now, if you have any suggestions or feedback, you can click the question mark button here.
You can email me or you can join our Discord server. Please let me know if you run into any issues, any suggestions you have, any features you would like to see, any additional public domain free Bibles that you would like to see in here. I have a lot more planned for the tool. I'm going to get an audio Bible in here, topical discussions, uh, a historical timelines, lots of things are coming, but I only have so much time and it costs money to develop this stuff and only have so much money. Now, if you're like me and you're slowly going blind as you get older, you can use these font buttons to increase or decrease the font size as well. In the settings over here, you can switch the language and you can choose the version of the divine name if you change your mind about how you want it displayed.
Now, you can't download data for offline use yet. That is coming. It does store data on your phone to make it faster. So, you can look stuff up and you can delete that data if you want to free up any uh storage space on your device. Now, although it is absolutely free for you and there are no ads, it does cost money. I run a server, there's bandwidth, there's the content to create the encyclopedias, the commentaries, all that stuff. If you do want to help out with the expenses of that, it is not required, but you can, and I greatly appreciate it.
You can click the donate button here, and you can see the ways that you can support the project. If you have any other tools you would like to see, please let me know. I plan on increasing this tool, adding to it, making it better while keeping it simple, and also adding some other uh tools to my website. I have a scholarly devotional on the website that you can go to. It's a daily passage from the Bible along with archaeological, historical, and scholarly information, which I love that. If you know anything from watching my videos, I love that stuff. So, but it's hard to find a devotional like that.
They're they're fine. They're spiritual. They're good, but they're not scholarly. So, I prefer this, and that's why I set it up. As of right now, it's got content all the way through the end of the year, and you can favorite the ones that you want, and you can go straight to whatever date you want if you so choose. I hope to add some games in the future, things that help you memorize scripture, that kind of thing. If you have any suggestions, by all mean, let me know.
By all means, let me know in the comments. Definitely join our Discord which you can see here and let me know what you think. [Music]
