Free ESV Study Bible Online App - Bible usually costs $30+ and App usually costs $20+. Great resource!
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I think you've missed the bargain - the bible text is free but it's the study component that usually costs money (the extra text that compliments the free biblical text).
"The ESV Study Bible Web App includes the study notes, maps, charts, illustrations, and theological articles " those bits are the study notes.
You keep missing the point.
As anthonettex has told you, the app includes the various study notes.
they need to be told what to think of it because they cant think for themselves, if they could think for themselves they would realise that…. spoiler alert.. OBVIOUSLY NONE OF IT IS TRUE…..
Uh huh… Nevertheless, for those who are interested in these study notes, this is a significant saving and therefore a bargain.
That's too bad. They could use Jesus to heal that burn.
As do other app's of the same type. What is it about that, that is not understood?
because other apps provide the text but not the study notes
Oh joy. The Atheists Vs Theists argument.
This always ends in a reasoned conclusion.
Side-note: to pull apart an argument, you have to understand it; Atheists don't believe everything came from nothing and it's not ridiculous (to an atheist) to not believe there is such an intangible thing as a soul.
Believe what you will, but understand others beliefs if you are to belittle them.
Here's a question for you. Apparently physical = existence, so do our imagination or our thoughts exist?
do our imagination or our thoughts exist?
i think the Reverend Bill Hicks put it best (notice that…. that is one of the very few times i ever use proper capitals in someones name.. he is one of the few who truly deserve it)
all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, we're the imagination of ourselves.
Not making an argument for or against - I am saying UNDERSTAND the argument you are trying to disprove.
I could literally answer your question in two words, but it would only lead to more ongoing never-ending "debate" in which I ask for positive proof in a higher being and you ask for proof of non-existence.
It is the most pointless thing to talk about I can think of.
Believe what you want. I don't want to change your beliefs; please respect me in treating me likewise.
Believe what you want. I don't want to change your beliefs; please respect me in treating me likewise.
im also ok with people believing what ever they want….. as long as that belief does not negatively impact any other innocent beings…
Andy-Laa my question wasn't for you, and I'm not sure if your answer is to mine, this thread is so confusing I don't even know who's talking to who LOL
Just remember an Atheist has NO beliefs. Therefore, an Atheist, in theory, can not ask someone to respect their beliefs when they have none.
I come for the bargains not existential and philosophical debates. The pub is the place for those…
That is an absurd statement… an Atheist is perfectly capable and entitled to hold beliefs (e.g. belief in basic human rights, belief in fair treatment of animals). Heck, they can even believe in a higher deity if they wish.
The only difference in an Atheist's beliefs and a Theist's beliefs is that the Atheist's beliefs do not have to match those of a particular religion or following, whilst the Theist's beliefs have to.
I have notes for my English class when I was in High School and notes on my law books now. I refuse to ignore them.
Also, it looks like you need Jesus.
no, they are thoughts
"There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, we're the imagination of ourselves."
I came to that conclusion too when I experimented with Alice. Funny how the plot of the matrix keeps popping up again and again lol.
I don't come here to hear petty keyboard debates. Suggest you take your thoughts somewhere else. This is a bargain website.
Don't feed the trolls
Awww… but i have some bread and fish to share ;)
Thanks. Web interface is very nice.
Had some difficulty finding out how to get the ESV notes up. To do it, do this: click on Apps, click on ESV study Bible. A window then appears next to the Bible text.
Unless you can find this cheaper elsewhere, or if you have no interest in it, then hit the "X" and move on. Like any other bargain, just because you don't see value in it, it does not mean that someone else does not.
If you can link to to somewhere else that this product is available for free, go for it.
These are not the ESV study bible notes. You don't know what you are comparing. No offense.
The ESV study notes have had years and years of work put into them by many of the best scholars.
http://esvstudybible.org/contributors/additional-contributor…You are doing some casual search for random bibles. The only time I'm aware of a free ESV Digital copy been issued is when a person has purchased a printed version. These books are excellent for people who do religious or historical studies, i.e. a person doing a paper on the subtle differences between religions.
This is a bargain, and unless you can point us to another ESV Study Bible App (which is free), then please withhold your pointless blather.
Hope this helps Wally:
"ESV Bible" = The bible text itself, for example 2 Tim 3:16 "All Scripture is breathed out by God…"
Yes it is free: http://www.esvbible.org/2+Timothy+3%3A16-17/ Which is generous believe it or not; its not cheap to make up to date, modern language, accurate translations of the Bible.
"ESV Study Notes" = Notes written about the Bible by the best Evangelical scholars out there.
For example: "All Scripture would refer first to the OT but by implication also to at least some NT writings, which by this time were already being considered as Scripture (see 1 Tim. 5:18 and note; 2 Pet. 3:15–16 and note)."
what is the purpose of the study notes anyway?
Why the negative attitude for?
I don't go to Church either but if people want to believe, let them believe. Their actions affect you in no way or form.
Their actions affect you in no way or form.
except… they do… have you not read,listened to or watched the news in the last 400 years? the hate fuled venom these people preach on daily basis's? the rights taken away from women (ru486) and "gays" (marriage equality etc) the elderly and unwell (euthanasia laws) are all firmly rooted in this BS…
while my world is negatively effected by these nutcases ill always have a problem with them and it
You (nosdan) come across like a hate-fueled nutcase yourself in your posts here.
while my world is negatively effected by these nutcases ill always have a problem with them and it
It goes 2 ways. Someone with a deep seated fundamental belief in atheism can act just as irrational and as 'nutcase' as someone who is a fundamentalist Christian / Muslim / whatever.
Ever heard of tolerance? History tells us that racial and religious intolerance has caused a lot of human conflict.
Your point is based on fiction you mean. Atheism means zero belief. Zero equals nothing. Therefore, Atheism is fictitious nothing.
Looks like you just discovered /r/atheism. You're allowed to be an atheist or not a christian or whatever you want, just don't be a dick about it. You do realise you're just as bad as the people you are criticising because of the way you are doing so, right?
disagree we see this crap on ozb
this is the wrong forum for you… go whinge somewhere else.
Damn I couldn't downvote you, I've wasted my 5 downvotes for comments for the day on this page =/
i.e. If your are writing a paper on how the fall of Rome was influenced by a certain religion(s), this book makes an excellent reference.
A Christian wanting to understand the Bible better.
Helps explain the bible, make sense of hard passages, notify the reader of archaeological evidence for certain bits of the bible, provides helpful summaries, maps of locations, refers to context of passages, explains the author and title of a book, explains the purpose of a book, shows how the passage fits into the big picture of the bible, may list out differing interpretations on controversial passages, will explain meanings that are only evident in the original language etc…
In other words seriously helpful if you take this book seriously!
Money and religion hey?
Better than being on your knees in church.
Which is a damn site better than being on your knees in a priests room….
$30 for an online resource and $20 for an app. Geez, salvation is expensive these days.
Study of comparative religion is bible study and is thoroughly fascinating - I know as I had done a little of it at uni out of interest and learnt an enormous amount about how people think.
Quite simply "resources that honor God, strengthen his church, and spread the gospel of Jesus Christ" are NOT bible study. They do not challenge the message broadly and compare it to other very similar philosophies. I am always bemused that sources that hover around the general idea of "this is what you should think this says" is called "study". I would say the same about literature study in grade 6: "this is what this novel means" is not literature study.
So bargain for "bible indoctrination" but I would call this borderline misadvertising.
Agreed, this is for people who believe the Bible is the Word of God. Not useful if you want to read interpretations from other view points. Fantastic if you want to know what people who believe this think though.
Wrong. When you study most disciplines at school or university, you are not examining the matter critically - you are taught to accept uncritically whatever you are taught, and if you you deviate from the orthodox interpretation they will give you a 0. For example, You will fail a psychology or psychiatry exam these days if you trash behaviourism/RET in favour of psychoanalysis, and you will fail if you even suggest the DSM could be flawed.
So why is Bible study not education? Christians teach you the Bible is the truth, just as your science teacher prosletizes Darwinian evolution, your physics teacher tells you the atomic model of the universe is the correct one, lefty politicians tell you the planet is warming up (even though the ice caps recently increased in size), etc. It is very rare to have to study disciples where the subject matter is open to debate, like it is (or at least used to be) in literature, philosophy and comparative religious studies. Philosophy departments now days are full of skeptical nihilists, and literature departments full of Marxists who hate literature and use it as a propaganda tool to trash Western civilization.
You atheists always amaze me - anything a religious persons is automatically attacked and dismissed, but you accept without question anything a scientist or progressivist politician or celebrity or TV news show tells you. If you were truly enlightened skeptics, you would question the validity of everything. Just because a doctor diagnoses you as having a certain condition, it doesn't mean you have the condition. I have been misdiagnosed 3 times in my life. People make mistakes, and some people (idealogues) have a vested interest in disseminating lies (eg socialism is the solution to all of the world's problems).
@ Thaal Sinestro: Only, science is generally open for debate, and I'm sure your doctors admitted their mistakes. I'm not sure the same can be said of religion.
I mark psychology university papers, and you are incorrect.
I don't think our students are taught RET. You will fail if you "trash" or "favour" any topic without any supporting evidence. That pretty much means psychoanalysis then, as there is no supporting evidence. Psychology is a scientific discipline, not to be confused with reading chicken entrails.
As for DSM - any student who questions it will get extra marks from me, so long as they present a decent argument for doing so. Which isn't hard as it's a rubbish document, and needs critical analysis not uncritical acceptance.
IP
No competent physics teacher would tell you "the atomic model of the universe is the correct one".
A competent physicist understands that any physical model is only representative of the workings of nature over a certain scope and fully expects the model to be refined in the future. That is the aim of physics research. The atomic model as you so conveniently referred to has been refined numerous times over the last 200 years and will continue to be refined.
Scientific models are taught to students along with the research taken to derive them, their scopes and their shortcomings. There is absolutely no faith involved.
They have absolutely no faith in what they are teaching?
Faith is blindly following something without supporting evidence. Bridges would collapse if professors used 'faith'
Scientists do not have faith in what they study. The concepts which they understand are fully reasoned.
A student doesn't have faith.
The teacher on the other must certainly have a degree of belief or faith in what they are teaching.
The believing teacher schools the disbelieving student.
how to u buy it, it's asking for US address only?
you just need to make a account and enter in the your details. The address doesn't need to be US address
This so-called "study bible" is propaganda to steer people away from the less pleasant parts of the bible.
Unfortunately, it is all a bit boring without the genocide, the death penalty for minor offences, the forced marriage of rape victims, and all the juicy bits generally.I'd really like to see kids learn about the Bible in "Horrible Histories" format. That would wake them up in Sunday School!
Anyone who really wants to understand the bible should look at
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Annotated_Bible
- http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimov%27s_Guide_to_the_Bible
You'll soon know more than 99% of Christians do about the Old Testament.
Having used these ESV study notes they don't shy away from anything in your links.
BTW; for those interested these ESV study notes are fantastic. They are concise, accurate and really helpful. I have used them daily. Highly recommend. Having an online searchable study bible is quite handy.
Seems interesting people went to the trouble of studying a book and making notes when it should be clearly understood and concise, accurate and really helpful from the get go…
People believe this stuff in 2013,….. thank god (lol) it's dying out slowly.
Who else can we judge today?
Funnily enough religions far from dying out are actually GROWING at a faster rate than any other time in history. This includes Christianity.
The facts:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_religionNicely summarised information and decently well interpreted for causes too. But yeah not dying everywhere.
http://discipleallnations.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/the-top-2…
I would like to see a comparison between growth in the developed world vs the developing world. Grouping the two is well, in the favour of one side.
I have seen graphical evidence that intelligence (test scores) is inversely related to religiosity - at least in the states.
I can't get figures for Australia because we're so truly small (it's a sad truth, but hey we're lucky people).
For USA, however the facts are between 1990 and 2008:
Christians grew by: 22,177,000
and Atheists by: 1,186,000http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_population_growth
So still a pretty big difference even though this should be one of the slowest growing demographics for Christianity. China in comparison has 67 million Christians growing by around 10,000 each day which is 10 times higher than the daily birth rate in Australia, despite being subjected to a long and brutal history of heavy persecution by an anti-religious (Communist) government and the number is projected to increase to 400 million people by 2040. We have a tendency to focus on western ideas and issues because we speak English and (most of us) can only can access news and forums in English, but the rest of the world is very big.
I have a nagging intuition that there are more Atheists on the Internet (which is kind of a developed country I suppose), but that's probably not as reliable. All I know is that there are a lot of them on Christian Bible app threads.
The thing is, people who spend a lot of time in forums are almost all socialists, and socialists despise all religions -bar Islam- because religion teaches moral absolutism, requires discipline & perseverance, and opposes the establishment of a collectivist utopia. Conservatives are generally too busy working to waste time on chatting and social networking. You can be a Conservative without accepting any form of spirituality (eg Ayn Rand), but religious people have a very strong interest in opposing materialistic, soul-denying progressivism (what they call 'liberalism' in Amerika).
Religion will win over atheism in the end, because Muslims are so incredibly fertile compared to impotent, socialism loving Caucasians (European Muslims produces 3 times as many children as 'whites'). By 2050 half of Europe (Germany, France, Norway, England, etc) will have a Muslim majority, and one third of the world's population will be devout Islamists:
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3770/the_islamic_futur…
http://twocircles.net/2010apr26/one_third_world_population_2…Muslims aren't allowed to become atheists or convert to another religion - the penalty is death. Every child born to a Muslim mother automatically becomes a Muslim, unlike in the West, where the children of Christian parents often end up loathing religion. When Muslims attain majority status they will lop off the heads of all atheists who refuse to convert or become jizya paying Dhimmis. I'm sure all the cowardly, self-indulgent atheists will choose conversion - the atheists I know aren't the sort of people who would die for a belief. Muslims, in comparison, have no qualms about giving up their lives for their religion.
Actually atheist is synonymous with dum or mute. Atheist = zero belief. Likewise a mute = zero volume.
Incorrect. No belief in a God does not equal no belief.
'No belief' does not equal 'No belief' ? How does that make sense Irishpete
No belief "in a god" can you even read?
its like you saying no belief in unicorns means no belief in anything..
Therefore it's impossible to have perfect zero belief :)
Just as its impossible to have a perfect 0 degree straight.
No-one is perfect therefore no-one can say they are perfect people with zero belief.
Just as a straight line is fake so is Atheism.
We all have our beliefs, and all our beliefs have a relative degree of difference. Either way we are all believers.
I dont really follow that logic but I agree we all have hold some belief, but dont confuse that with faith in a god, because that's something entirely different..
sama wrote:
For USA, however the facts are between 1990 and 2008:
Christians grew by: 22,177,000
and Atheists by: 1,186,000Quoting absolute figures can be very misleading. For example, the web page you referenced clearly states that as a percentage of population, Christianity actually declined by 10.2% over that period in the US.
Similarly, in absolute terms the number of Christians increased by only 14.7%, whereas the number of Atheists more than doubled at 204%.
The figures convey a very different story than the one you attempted by cherry-picking the data.
I'm not cherry picking data. It's just if you frame it in those terms you forget that the low base numbers of one group and high numbers for another group make the percentages seem extraordinary. Going from 1 person believing to 2 will sound much bigger as a percentage than 1000 more from 1 million. That's not really giving an accurate picture of how prevalent a belief is either. The original quote cited above was to answer the belief that religions are slowly dying. If the absolute number is increasing for a belief, then it's hardly dying now is it?
If you want the facts in these terms instead, they don't look so good either. Atheism as a world belief had 136,652,000 adherents in 2010 making it a total of just 2.0% of the population. It's projected to FALL by 2050 to 132,613,000 to just 1.4% of the world population, a drop of -0.07%
I'd rather live under as a "impotent socialist Caucasian" than as a facist Muslim. Your inability to comprehend how utterly brainwashed you've become makes me fear the worst for the human race. There's are reasons we don't have Back To The Future style hoverboards yet, and people like you are one of them.
The real question is why people still believe the universe caused itself to explode out of nowhere by accident even after science proved the world to be so complex.
Your imaginary friend created it?
Saying 'imaginary friend' rather than 'friend'
Strawman fallacy: not even once.
I suppose we can always judge those who mock the beliefs of others? Feel free to leave more constructive comments relevant to the deal.
For those who have not tried these notes, they complement any study into the bible quite well
goodness, why did I ever read the comments? I knew it was a disaster waiting to happen.
for those who just don't understand why this is a deal;
yes, there are a lot of online versions of the bible, that are always free to access. However, a 'study bible' is something else to what you would find in these free resources. While a lot of commentaries can be found free online (although, not many worthwhile ones), a study bible provides a very basic explanation of the text, alongside the main text. It's no addition to the Bible, in the sense that it is only a clarification of the finer points of each verse of the Bible, but it does help to understand things like historical context, or nuances in the translation from hebrew/greek. things that the average reader would not know. Or, it can give simple explanations of verses which might be a bit trickier to understand.
Because of the extent of work that goes into making a study bible (it invloves a lot of research), they usually cost a fair bit. And so, regardless of your views on Christianity, or the Bible, a free study bible (especially one written by a academically recognised author opposed to some random on the interwebs), is a really good deal."A free study bible..is a really good deal"
Yeah pay your 'donations' now and receive eternal salvation.
Note salvation can not be verified.
Why does it seem that almost every time a "religious" bargain is posted a flame war erupts about the merits or otherwise of the religion?
I understand people are entitled and free to voice their own views, but why can't we also be tolerant of others and their beliefs as well?
What if it was for a free e-meter reading, voodoo service, future palm reading, astrology subscription so on and so forth? Do only the 'big brand' religions and beliefs get deal status?
There should be a line.
People are free to post deals regarding said beliefs - I don't believe ozbargain rules dictate otherwise?
I don't believe in those things myself but I respect the right of others to engage in those activities if they so wish to
Because pedo priests
Hey
Most priests are exceptional people… don't brand all of them.
So are doctors. But they don't seem to have the reputation?
Because I don't want to be 'tolerant' of a religion that causes so much hate towards gay people, or that general makes life a lot harder for many, many others - especially women - than it needs to be.
I think you are confusing Christianity with Islam. Islam is a lot worse than Christianity in those respects, but in my experience there are few things in the world atheists and lefties love more than Islam.
wrong again. On all counts. If that's your experience you should get out and mix more with people with different views from yours. You might learn something. I am atheist and socialist, and Islam and Christianity are pretty much equivalent in my book, both having odious extremes, and more acceptable moderates.
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