Would have loved this back in my religious days, or in the brief period of time I was interested in criticizing religion. These days I'm not really interested at all in the Bible, but this is still a pretty cool idea. A little bit of an archaic choice to search the KJV though. Maybe it was chosen due to copyright issues.
Bible Semantic Search
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#23Hmm. Searching “baby” returns nothing but references to Babylon. Not sure why this was my first and only search, less clear why it is doing partial text matching.
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#24Would have loved this back in my religious days, or in the brief period of time I was interested in criticizing religion. These days I'm not really interested at all in the Bible, but this is still a pretty cool idea. A little bit of an archaic choice to search the KJV though. Maybe it was chosen due to copyright issues.
Must be for Mormons. They only read the King James Version because otherwise the Book of Mormon would sound super weird seeing as how it’s the worlds most popular Bible fanfic. Source: technically a Mormon.
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#25Would have loved this back in my religious days, or in the brief period of time I was interested in criticizing religion. These days I'm not really interested at all in the Bible, but this is still a pretty cool idea. A little bit of an archaic choice to search the KJV though. Maybe it was chosen due to copyright issues.
Must be for Mormons. They only read the King James Version because otherwise the Book of Mormon would sound super weird seeing as how it’s the worlds most popular Bible fanfic. Source: technically a Mormon.
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#26Would have loved this back in my religious days, or in the brief period of time I was interested in criticizing religion. These days I'm not really interested at all in the Bible, but this is still a pretty cool idea. A little bit of an archaic choice to search the KJV though. Maybe it was chosen due to copyright issues.
Isn't the KJV popular among evangelical sects as well? I remember seeing more of those as a kid than any modernized version.
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Isaiah 1:15 - And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
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#29SBERT isn't trained on this type of archaic English and you can see it failing. It needs to be fine tuned or you should use a modern Bible translation. A clear example is the query: "homosexuality" This returns: > James 2:3 - And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool It's clearly seei…
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#30SBERT isn't trained on this type of archaic English and you can see it failing. It needs to be fine tuned or you should use a modern Bible translation. A clear example is the query: "homosexuality" This returns: > James 2:3 - And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool It's clearly seei…
Couldn't they search in a modern translation and just refer back to the ancient one? Seems like the way bible verses are split up should remove the ability of translation to move anything around much.