This 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??
Look at question 6 from the USCCB FAQ
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#62BTW, the publishers of the ESV host an official API (although the terms of use are somewhat restrictive): https://api.esv.org/
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Explain further?
Surely you must know what the Christians teach people? That many perfectly normal and good things are wrong, that normal human acts are sins (and how they behave to the "sinners" - even from their own), the way they teach it to children, etc?
I do. Christians I've known simply teach faith in Jesus, expressed through baptism, repentance and actions of love.
> the way they teach it to children
They teach the same to children too.. I hope. But , of course there will be deception and the bible clearly states that too. Thankfully, It provides a solutions.
> That many perfectly normal and good things are wrong, that normal human acts are sins
Can you share examples?
People are falliable. My self included. Probably best to read the foundations of the bible itself and then judge. Its like coding. Surely the person who started with the foundations is much more equipped to handle the framework or library in comparison to the person with no foundations and just jumping straight into a framework haha.
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#64Has anyone trained GPT2 on the Bible? I think it could create some interesting stories.
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#65Earlier 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…
Additional edit: removing somewhat off-topic discussion that was replying to an example in the above comment, and discussion of whether a controversial passage was censored. And no, it was not censoring it (thanks to all of you who replied below pointing this out!). The issue was my incorrect editing of the URL without accounting for the fact that the URL contained URL-encoded characters, namely + as %20.
As others have mentioned your url is incorrect. FWIW, I was always taught that this verse meant that, since God is love, if one loves God first, it will improve ones love for family, etc. Also that when one does love their children, etc, even if they don’t realize it they are participating in God’s love. Take it or leave it, but not really as unpopular or controversial as you posit.
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#66Meh. I would really love to see the day when religion stops being more than a fantasy fictional story. The project is nice, but I dislike its promotion of religion, and christianity in particular. This story has caused way too much suffering already. I wonder who will first use this project for children indoctrination.
I am sure both of us risk getting our accounts flagged or banned for having an opinion, but perhaps you could use the API to display what concerns you. I can say pretty much all of it concerns me. I don't believe in cherry picking "the good stuff" while avoiding all the atrocities that in there. It's amazing how most don't read their "most important book". They just wait for others to tell them the pretty verses they…
> It's amazing how most don't read their "most important book". They just wait for others to tell them the pretty verses they found. It's sort of like modern day social media. People don't actually read the content, they wait for others to comment on the headline only.
This is the case for every major religion out there. I live in the middle east. I've known hundreds of people personally in my life. How many have actually read the Quran cover to cover? Only a few. IMO especially the most religious avoid it at all costs in fear of actually learning some truth that might make them question the book. So APIs and presenting multiple translations is really important. Word by word translation helps a lot. Make it so ubiquitous that people have no chance but to know what is actually written inside instead of acting like they know by reciting a few things they have heard and cherry-picked. I have done my own compilation to help people in the past [1]. Payment is actually optional, free sample already has full content.
[1] https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Omar_Haroon_Terc...
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#67Would be nice if The Skeptic's Annotated Bible could be added to the API. Doubt that though. http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/
It has been years since I last looked at the Skeptics Annotated Bible, but when it launched there were a number of claims based purely on the standard English translations of the Bible. I remember especially how it was claimed that Jesus was "disrespectful of his mother" (and therefore not a morally good person) by addressing her as "woman", even though gunê in Greek was a totally normal form of address with no disrespectful tinge to it at all. (We know a lot about forms of address in Greek and Latin thanks largely to the work of Eleanor Dickey).
I mentioned this to the creator of the website, but he said he lacked any academic background and could only base himself on the English. Consequently, I wrote the site off as more a knee-jerk response to religion instead of any rigorous challenge to the claims of Christianity.
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#68I keep getting NULL
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#69Nice API. Still, it's a little like a Shakespeare API that supports only Portuguese and Chinese. It would be great to include the original languages.
The problem (which Shakespeare also has[1]) is that there are numerous versions of the texts in their original languages, with no particularly definitive or even consistent editions of the Old Testament in Hebrew or the New Testament in Greek AFAIK. Not to mention, the original Mosaic writings have been completely lost to time, having been written in Ugaritic and not Hebrew.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_texts_of_Shakespeare%27s...
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#70Has anyone trained GPT2 on the Bible? I think it could create some interesting stories.
We could make a religion out of this