First Look: HANDiBIBLE for iPhone

This is a blog. Not a government agency or a school. I think it's ridiculous to leave such a comment about reviewing a bible app. Why not get on to them for making this website only about Apple. Why are they leaving out Windows and Linux?

Come on. Really.

No But honestly:
Its a bloody book! treat it like one:
Are the chapter marks ok?
Is ist easy to find content you have been reading?
Are you resuming at the point where you stopped?
Is there space to annotate you own ideas?

A book is a book is a book

I would rather dash out 100 (local currency of you choice) for a good ebook reader thats able to offer the bible, thora and other readworthy stuff than this gibberish review. sorry tuaw but thats under you aol coat...

The best Bible i found until now is the one from OliveTree. It has the german Luther Bible 1912, which is kinda old. Other Bible Apps have newer Bible Versions, but require an internet connection.

Is it possible for App-Store Programmers to "buy" certain new bibles that arent free (like german luther 1984) and re-sell them?

Because i wonder why i don't see ANY new version of a german bible that is readable offline?!

Maybe these biblical passages explains your atheistic unbelief in the Bible:

14 But ​​a ​a​natural man ​does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are ​​foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually ​appraised. But he who is ​​spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one. -- 1 Corinthians 2:14-15 (NASB)

Explanation:
- natural man. This refers to the unconverted, who lack supernatural life and wisdom.
- spiritually appraised. Through illumination of the Word, the Holy Spirit provides His saints the capacity to discern divine truth, which the spiritually dead are unable to comprehend.
-- appraised by no one. Obviously, unbelievers are able to recognize Christians’ faults and shortcomings; but they are not able to evaluate the Christians' true nature as spiritual people who have been transformed into children of God

Also:

Do you not know that the unrighteous (Or wrongdoers) will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, (The two Greek terms translated by this phrase refer to the passive and active partners in consensual homosexual acts) nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (NASB)

And finally:

Colossians 3:5 - Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: (Greek therefore your members that are on the earth) sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. - Colossians 3:5

Are you a betting man? Do you really want to bet your eternal life on the writings of individuals who write atheist books? Or do you want to bet on the One who gave you your last possible chance to be right with God his Father? Good luck with your sin and atheism. I hope you like to be hot, because you'll be very, very hot in the Lake of Fire, and from there you'll never escape.

@richard bone, "intelligent debate" isn't an oxymoron since it doesn't contain contradictory terms. ("Creation Science" is an example of an oxymoron). But having an intelligent debate about christianity with a christian is certainly exceedingly difficult, if not impossible.

Also, I think all of the bible apps in the store are just silly, and I certainly won't be wasting any money or bandwidth on them. I prefer to keep religion off my "Jesus Phone"! :-)

I think the reason this gets up so many people's noses is that Christians try to take some sort of moral high ground, while they're actually promoting hatred and intolerance, and basically doing evil stuff in a way that the real Jesus Christ would have abhorred. Fact: Jesus never once said anything about persecuting gays, for example. The rest of us, who try to live our lives in a genuinely "good" way based on moral principles such as treating others as we'd like to be treated ourselves, resent the way the bible is used to justify so much imposition of suffering on innocents by rapid right wingers posing as moral zealots. (And funny how often the loudest of them, oops, 'lapse' and accidentally abuse little boys etc., huh?) . We wouldn't be happy with Nazi propaganda being posted here. So lay off the hate-book too.

thanks for the review. It was helpful and I love i.tuaw.com

With all of these people that don't like you guys reviewing a Bible app, I would like to say thank you. As a Christian, I like to read the Bible wherever I am, but I can't buy all of the $20.00 apps to review them myself. So I can use you guys to make an informed decision!

One translation that I love is the English Standard Version. Something I should mention to everyone of the Catholic and Jewish faiths, regarding their translations is this: Consider reading multiple versions of the Bible, OT for the Jewish of course. For windows there is e-sword.net, (Use parallels or the other windows soft to use it) that has something called Strong's numbers. You can use that to see the Greek/Hebrew meaning, so that you can understand the meaning better. Also, you can read multiple versions of a difficult passage to interpret. Something else that holds truth, "Use the Bible to intrepid the Bible." Find similar verses, and read them.

There is also Exegesis. This means, in the Greek, "to lead out" This is where you read the Bible without preconceived notions, and read what the author's intent was. An example of this is the Apostle Paul telling women not to cut there hair: It was not a command meant for now, but for then. Then there were prostitutes with short hair. The same with the OT laws about priests not cutting their beards: The pagans who sacrificed their own children cut their beards.

A modern example could be this: in the 1930's 'gay' meant 'happy'. But now it means homosexual. This is why letting scripture interpret scripture is important, along with Exegesis. The Bible was written to people of olden times, but still written to us. But because of the time gap, we have to listen to wise teachings and be able to interpret the Bible for ourselves so that we don't fall into sin.

Jinto

@ DonD -- an "intelligent debate" about Christianity is an oxymoron.

C'mon, people. Get a life.

This is just a "First Look" at a new app, OK? We're not proselytizing, just giving another iPhone developer a chance to get the word out about his application.

If religion infuriates you so much, just ignore posts like this, OK?

TUAW Steve