Every Bible study starts with a good Bible and now you can find one online. Christianity.com has an excellent online Bible with some slick features usually found only on commercial stand-alone software packages. Like a lot of other sites, the online Bible on Christianity.com has a text version of the Bible with multiple translations to choose from and a way to navigate around in the text. Christianity.com has much more.
First off, Chrisitanity.com has fully editable text. You can highlight it in four different colors; you can change text size, bold, and underline text. Text color can also be changed for individual verses. So you marker-uppers - -go wild. You can also post notes to the text (which are saved) and post flags to mark text. There are also powerful search engines which you can use not only to find sections of text but also use as a concordance. Finally, you can view multiple panes to read different translations at once in a parallel Bible fashion.
Christianity.com is also the Swiss army knife of Bible study sites. It has a great research section loaded with Bible dictionaries, encyclopedias, commentaries and cross-reference guides. A great feature is that you can use the search engine to search the entire library of research tools. This is a quick treasure trove of background and textual material. While there are better web pages for word studies and commentaries (as we will see in coming weeks), none of them are searchable directly from your online Bible as with Christianity.com.
You will have to set up a free account when you first log-on to Christianity.com. This allows you to have your personalized study Bible which saves all your notes, flags and text edits. Once set up you can access your online study Bible from anywhere you can access the web. If you’ve a mind to check out Bible study online, Christianity.com is definitely the place to start and set up base camp.
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