Customer Reviews
Navigation problems? I don't think so.
I hardily disagree with other reviews about problems with navigating this Bible. If you want a specific verse, go to the drop-down menu at the top, select table of contents, choose the book you want, and after the book loads choose the chapter you want. From here there is some scrolling (which my PPC, a Toshiba e355, has a nice button for), but you will reach your specific verse very quickly.
I know the process sounds long but I can find most verses within 10 seconds, which is faster than my average time using a traditional Bible.
One complaint I do have is the way that Microsoft reader loads the text. I don't know about anyone else but it takes my PPC forever to load the entire Bible into memory. Even after this initial loading, navigating Psalms in particular is difficult because of the book's massiveness. Finding a verse in Psalms takes about one minute because of loading time for my 300 mhz PPC when alloted 32 mb RAM.
It also seems that they messed up the picture format for the Hebrew symbols in Psalms 119, but this is a minor issue.
BTW, I think this is hardly the place to discuss the validity of the Bible. This is obviously different than reviewing a Stephen King novel. It takes years of personal research to discover what the Bible has to offer as well as a practice of some of its lessons to verify its validity, not a quick-stop at an atheist web site ranting about technicallities or a superficial glance through specific books. If you are truly a Biblical scholar (someone who investigates the original Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew texts to verify conclusions) and are still skeptical, then I say you have room to talk; otherwise, I think you're jumping on a band-wagon that supports your personal beliefs.
The Bible is the beginning of understanding
Several reviews were blasting away at the Bible and its contradictions and so forth. Consider this:
Since God is a God of Love and since love casts out all fear, anything that uses or promotes fear cannot be from God.
With this simple concept in mind, you can read the Bible, or any other book, and you can easily determine fable and myth from the truth.
The Bible and all religions based upon it are mans attempts to reach God. Often the results have not been the best, but I think it is better that we had these things to at least act as a reminder that there is a God than to not have had them at all.
We can see beyond the ancient stories and the terrible judgments past and presumed for the future and know these are just stories created out of fear. We can also see many truths by Jesus and his apostles and just translate like this...does that statement promote fear or love? If it promotes fear, man put it there. It it promotes love, a man with an inspired thought of God put it there. Simple.
Very nice but there has to be better...
1. You cannot copy and paste from the Zondervan Bible.
2. If you perform a word search and it finds a match, there is no way to know where in the Bible you are without paging backwards to the beginning of the chapter - Major flaw.
Until Zondervan fixes these problems, look elsewhere.
God Bless You!
