I find it strange that you have a default translation. I expect the sort of crowd who would most likely use this will also be very particular about which translation is being served.
Should it just return a 400 if you don’t provide a translation?
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#42Edit: my bad, I literally clicked on an example link provided in the page, which clearly shows the same URL format I used in my post, and edited the URL to have the strings for the Luke passage. I see that's the wrong syntax. Safari must be doing something funny… nope, that wasn't it. It was me, not noticing that %20 was an encoded + since it was mashed together with another number which threw me off.
Earlier question was asking why a controversial passage was not found.
Corrected URL: http://bible-api.com/luke+14:26
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#43This is neat. This makes me curious about the licencing around popular translations, like the Jerusalem Bible or the NIV; is it not legal to post those translations??
Apparently, the Bible is the Word of God. I'm not sure if copyright applies. Romans 13:1-2 says: "Obey the government, for God is the One who has put it there. There is no government anywhere that God has not placed in power. So those who refuse to obey the law of the land are refusing to obey God, and punishment will follow." Acts 5:29 says: "Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than human…
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently, the Bible is the Word of God. I'm not sure if copyright applies. Romans 13:1-2 says: "Obey the government, for God is the One who has put it there. There is no government anywhere that God has not placed in power. So those who refuse to obey the law of the land are refusing to obey God, and punishment will follow." Acts 5:29 says: "Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than human…
I expect that translating a work gives you a claim on the translation, which is a creative work. (Mechanical translation doesn't have this effect)
Isaiah 64:8
But now, O Lord, You are our Father, We are the clay, and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your hand.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
You’re 100% right about people not reading. I actually teach an adult Sunday School class in my spare time because it’s really fascinating to read and get into the history. My slogan for the class is “You cannot be misled if you’ve read.” We spend a lot of time talking about man made traditions that aren’t biblically supported as well as the cherry picking without context that often happens. Christianity can withstan…
Christianity is also man made.
Only if you believe the entire Bible is false. And that is certainly a choice that anyone has the right to make.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://bible-api.com/ecclesiastes%203:7
I don't take advice from a book that has caused so much physical and mental pain, ruined lives and families.
Give us a better story then. Or point at one that produces Hope and Faith in you, when you have experienced suffering.
All religious text give us story, imagery and ritual.
Why?
Because they are the tools available to produce Faith.
Faith in those suffering, that tomorrow will be a better day.
The tools evolve and change. New tools are discovered. Yet with all the tooling and knowledge we still have, producing Faith and Hope in those suffering still is very much a non-trivial problem. We fuck it up all the time because of how hard the problem is.
To not look at religious text, all religious text, is to not look deeply at what attempts people have made - with the tools of story, imagery and ritual - to produce Faith in those who need it.
I was no big fan of religion growing up. But the older you get the more ppl who stumble, will knock at your door looking for hope/energy/faith etc. And no one taught me how to generate it in others.
So I did the usual stuff of giving them cash, shelter, listening, sending them to a shrink etc etc. And where that doesn't work out or fails in spectacular ways, thats when a good story is all you have left.
So keep looking for a good one.
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#47Would be nice if The Skeptic's Annotated Bible could be added to the API. Doubt that though.
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#48I find it strange that you have a default translation. I expect the sort of crowd who would most likely use this will also be very particular about which translation is being served.
Should it just return a 400 if you don’t provide a translation?
I'd suggest making it part of the path. A translation is parent to a verse.
For example
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently, the Bible is the Word of God. I'm not sure if copyright applies. Romans 13:1-2 says: "Obey the government, for God is the One who has put it there. There is no government anywhere that God has not placed in power. So those who refuse to obey the law of the land are refusing to obey God, and punishment will follow." Acts 5:29 says: "Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than human…
I expect that translating a work gives you a claim on the translation, which is a creative work. (Mechanical translation doesn't have this effect)
Yes, exactly. Here’s what BibleGateway says about it: https://support.biblegateway.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001403...
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#50I find it strange that you have a default translation. I expect the sort of crowd who would most likely use this will also be very particular about which translation is being served.
There’s unfortunately not a lot of public translations available outside of KJV.
Zondervan owns and strongly protects the copyright they own on the most recent English translations