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A description of the main
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About Faith From Facts
Abraham
Meaning
of name
Alexandrian-type
text Chart
Used for most modern translations of the Bible, distinguished from
the Received Text used for the King James, and New King James.
Amplified
Method of adding explanatory material to a translation of the Bible
An example
of how you might add your own notes under the heading of the Lord's
Prayer if you downloaded the Bible
Study Outline.
Angel
Spoke to Zechariah the priest at the start of the NT, or was it the
close of the OT? In the Malachi Christmas article.
Answers and Bible Questions
Recommended Bible
study message board and forum
Anthony, the Great
Egyptian Coptic desert father died 356 AD. Greatest of the
anchorite (solitary) monks. The Cenobite monks are communal. See
also the treasure of Desert Father wisdom at the Coptic
link.
Assumptions
A sinkhole is to a house as an assumption is to
knowledge. In the Assumptions article.
Atheists
Four questions help determine who is seeking truth. In
the Four Questions article.
Audio and Video
Off-site link to Online
Study Bible.com Alexander Scourby reading, preachers preaching, and
Christian radio and video. It looks like a book (the Bible) but is acts
like your own Bible study resource center. This site was the
featured Bible-study site January 25, 2003.
Bible Study Books-Main
Six basic types of Bible study books:
1. Study
Bible
2. Bible
Dictionary
3. Concordance
4. Commentary
5. Word
Study - Language Tools
6. Bible
Atlas
Translations from word-for-word to paraphrase. Chart.
Select
a translation and study notes.
NASB,
most literal word-for-word translation
Bible
Dictionary is like an encyclopedia —
many articles.
Concordance — Definition
Concordance — How
to use
Concordance — How
to add one to your toolbar
at the top of your computer screen, find verses instantly.
Commentaries
— Whole Bible, Individual Book, and
topical. Whole Bible is part of basic library.
Links to an online study library. Book
Icon library
Bible Study
Outline-Main
Ten
Bible topics to organize your Bible study
Reason and explanation
for order of the ten Bible-study topics.
Explanation
of the concept of a Bible-study outline, three levels of outline detail
Benefits
of using a Bible study outline in your studies.
Example
of how to take notes using a Bible-study outline
Concise-Compact Bible- study outline method, the Growing
Tree
Index of topics in
Bible Study Outline
Bible translations
Chart
Bible-study Quiz
Books, Bible study tools
Read actual prefaces, introductions, and recommendations online. Link
to (off site) Help
Me With Bible Study.org
Book Publishers
Chart
and links to all major
Booksellers
Favorite online
booksellers of Christian books
Check me
out on the Theological-Nut Scale
Christmas
Does Christmas bring Malachi to mind? In the Malachi
Christmas article.
Contact
How to e-mail John Bakas, site owner
Coptic Church link
Overview of this old and faithful tradition. The Christian
Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt has been under nearly constant
persecution. Pray for our brothers and sisters in the Coptic
Church. "Coptic" comes from one of the names of Memphis,
first capital of ancient Egypt.
Desert
Fathers Link: (Sayings of)
Known as the Monks' Garden, or the "Paradise of the
Desert Fathers. Link to excepts from Dr. Benedicta Ward's book on
the Desert Fathers of Egypt.
Doubt
If you opened many closets and found in every closet a note stating,
"Every closet has a note," would you ever have any doubt that
the next closet you open has a note? In the Four Questions
article.
Download the Bible
Study Outline
Here is what
you get.
Dynamic
Equivalence
Translation method also called thought-for-thought, distinguished from
word-for-word method
Evolution
Macrodevelopment excerpt
from article by Phillip Engle.
Link to
MacroDevelopment.org ""Natural selection is incompetent to
account for the incipient stages of useful structures."- George
Mivart"
Link to web site of the
International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design (ISCID)
which "is a cross-disciplinary professional society that
investigates complex systems apart from external programmatic
constraints like materialism, naturalism, or reductionism."
FACTS
Can unique events still be facts? In the Seeking
Truth article.
Hymn
Part of the hymn quoted in Why
an ICOTI?
A Russian hymn, written in Greek, translated into English
and
published in Hymns of the Russian Church, 1907. You can
hear the music and read the rest of this glorious hymn at off site link to
the Cyber
Hymnal.
Sovereignty of God. Old hymn quoted In the Seeking
Truth article.
John the Baptist
Son of the priest Zechariah In the Malachi Christmas
article.
Knowledge
"How" you know determines "what" you can know. In
the Four Questions article.
Knowledge
Assuming that the material world is all that exists, is not a logical
way to learn all that can be known about reality.
In the Seeking Truth
article.
Links
Featured
Bible-study site of the week, month, or quarter, changed as they are
found.
Special sites
Great Bible study
sites
Message Boards
Recommended Bible
study message board and forum. Comprehensive.
Monk
Anthony, father
of monks
Monastic history
Link to Schaff's history of the church - monasticism
Paraphrase
Method of Bible translation in which the original Bible texts are
restated in an easier to understand manner. The New Living Translation (NLT)
and the Message are good paraphrases of the Bible
Paul
Article on Paul's visits to Troas.
In Bible Quiz Archive, Can you name this city?
Pictures, inspirational
Sunset
moves across Europe and Africa
Columbia
launch, this picture was in 1996. In April 1981, Columbia was the
first shuttle launched.
Night
launch added 1-6-03
Called to be Holy
Eagle
Lord of peace
Jesus
spoke
Light to the way
Heavens
declare
Grand world
Publishers of Christian books
Chart
and links to major
Questions and Answers
Recommended Bible-study
message board and forum
Received
Text Chart
Used to translate KJV and New King James Version, as distinguished
the Alexandrian-type texts used for most modern translations of the
Bible.
Salvation
It is from God by His Grace. ICOTI
Nicholson
Science
You must decide how you will know truth. In Science
article.
Science
It is a mind-set of assumptions. In the Seeking
Truth article.
Software
Four options
regarding whether and how to us software
Overview
and Introduction to online research
Free online Book
Icon Bible study library
E-sword, recommended downloadable software, link directly offsite to E-sword's
web site
Types
of software, online, downloadable, commercial.
Commercial
Bible study software packages
Recommendation on commercial software, PC
Bible by Biblesoft
Statement
of Faith
Synoptic Gospels
Short definition
Sovereignty of God
Old Hymn. In the Seeking
Truth article.
Thought-for-Thought
Also called dynamic equivalent method of Bible translation.
Translation Chart
Of major Bible versions
Trivia Quiz
Troas
Bible Quiz Archive, Can you name this city?
Truth
It's absolute. In the Four Questions
article.
Is not a matter of perception. In the Truth
article.
Word-for-word
Method of translating the Bible
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