The Bible Online

In 1999, I was all excited about using online tools to read and study the Scriptures. It was part of my daily routine. I quickly gave up on this for the convenience of using ‘a real Bible.’ In the last couple years I have shown my students where these tools are and how to find them, but I don’t really use them myself. Another teacher (who is not a hacker by any means) shared during devotions one day about how she uses her WebTV to hear the scriptures read to her, but it didn’t really push me to get back into it.My father-in-law was here about ten days ago and he asked me what I knew about online Bibles and bible study. I told him what little I knew, but had to admit that I know very little.His question nudged me to look into this again for a couple of reasons.

  1. I want to give him a report of some things I find
  2. I have been thinking about introducing him to RSS for some time now, and even mentioned to him the possiblility of podcasting his sermons
  3. I have been planning on researching these and other Christian resources for another project I thought of when my Dad passed away.

Anyway, I found these to start with.

June 18, 2005 | Filed Under Faith | Leave a Comment 

Belief Quiz

I found this belief quiz very interesting. Twenty multiple choice question you can answer and rank importance for.The first time I took the quiz, I scored a follows:

  1. Orthodox Quaker (100%)
  2. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (92%)
  3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (88%)

This seemed about right, although I consider myself leaning toward the liberal more than conservative.Then I had an idea. Answer the questions the same but click High for importance on all issues. I had a suspicion this would raise my score as a conservative, and I was correct.Then another idea. Answer the questions about creation/evolution in a more liberal fashion. Sure enough, that raised my liberal score, dropped my conservative score and my quaker score dove.One more thing. Change my answers on questions 13 - 16. These are the questions about abortion, gay rights, gender roles, and divorce. I found it very interesting that this had a large impact on my scores. (It brought my conservative score to 100%.) I’m not sure that should be.

June 18, 2005 | Filed Under Faith | Leave a Comment 

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