Bible in Mind

About

Bible in Mind is for working out a biblical concept and then learning it by heart. You put a concept in the middle, hang the passages that belong to it around it, and write down what you see. Then the same map turns into the thing you practise against.

Why a map and not a list

A list of verses about grace is a list. What you actually carry is the shape: which passage answers which, where one contradicts another, which word turns the sentence. A map holds that; a list flattens it. And when you come back in a month, the shape is what brings the words with it.

Why learning by heart is the point

Every passage climbs nine rungs, from recognising it among others to writing it out from the reference alone. A passage that keeps slipping stops being tested and gets built up instead — seven techniques, one at a time.

  1. 1. Which passage
  2. 2. Which concept
  3. 3. Which one was it
  4. 4. In order
  5. 5. Next word
  6. 6. Tap the gaps
  7. 7. Type the gaps
  8. 8. First letters
  9. 9. From memory

You climb into a rung by passing the one below it, and nothing is withheld — you can see the whole ladder from the start.

What it does not do

Scripture

Public-domain translations — the King James Version, the World English Bible, the Dutch Statenvertaling — are shown in full to everyone. Modern translations are copyrighted, and where there is no licence a passage shows its reference and not its words. That is not a limitation to work around; it is what keeps this legal.

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