Picture Bible and other software also for you

Do you have a lot of Bibles and enjoy reading a variety of Bible translations? Perhaps you make already use of one of our free or payable Bible software Programs. (Those who dowloaded our free OnlineBible program do not forget to ask your extra free modules to your ecclesia, our ecclesia or to Christadelphian World by Marcus Ampe)

Some of us in Belgium do prefer the Importantia Online Bible instead of our own Library (previously in Librinox) in the Logos Bible Platform, which is more difficult to work with and works out to be expensive for several trinitarian and non-christadelphian publications. (Though many are also free of charge for baptised Christadelphians.)

Online Bible Software is a tool originally form Canada and North America, used worldwide to study the Bible via desktop computers. From its early beginning in 1987 it was “ministry” based also by Importantia in Holland, and since 1995 many titles have been freely accessed by those downloading from the www.onlinebible.org website. These free downloads consists of a basic pack in different languages and additional downloads. The website experiences over 5000 downloads every month. The company in charge of making and distributing the program asks for contributors who will help fund the costs for www.olb-downloads.org. We do believe the end result will be a better experience for those visiting the download site and more people will benefit from the Online Bible software.

• The cost of building www.olb-downloads.org is €2900.00.   With this amount th epeople behind the screens of Importantia, can pay the php-programmer, the copywriter, the graphic designer, the editor and the translators. The site will run in four different languages (English, German, French and Dutch)
• Should the fund raise more than the €2900.00 mentioned, they would endeavour to add more languages, such as Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
• www.olb-downloads.org will auto-detect the language of the visitor and adapt to that language.
• For all contributions making a donation of €75.00 or more we will send out a DVD-ROM containing all 1500 available Online Bible titles, including the titles we are not allowed to distribute by download. (Baptised Christadelphians also can contact their ecclesia or us to receive even more modules for free.)
• If Importantia do not reach the basic financial goal that is needed for this project, the money that is raised will be used to set up the site in a smaller version with reduced functionality.

On Online Bible the bible Students and Christadelphians created several modules from long before internet was known but are limited working for free at our own time (we do not have paid ministers or pastors), so they might grow perhaps more slowly than the paid for modules. Though a yearly update is provided to our members, for free.

The Word Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

An other Bible software program provided by one of our brothers is The Word which is also not bad and in which you can tailor the software to your liking. Rearrange everything, configure every little detail to your heart’s liking. (For the free Christadelphian modules you may contact your ecclesia or the responsible brother of the software – see the CALS diary.)
A partial Japanese interface translation is also available in The Word which is portable. You can put it on a USB flash drive and carry your favourite Bibles, Books and personal notes wherever you go. For Online Bible Importantia there is an ap provided  for your portables in which you also can place our free modules. Importantia cooperates with Cross Link Services BV in the development of Bible and Biblestudy Apps. These Apps are developed by Cross Link Services BV and Importantia takes care of the content.

Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books of the Holy Scriptures. The 24 books divided into three different parts: the five books of the Torah (the book of the Jews), the Nevi’im (prophets) and the Ketuvim (writings). Torah means “teaching” or “law” forming the Tanakh or the Hebrew Bible. Those old books have every interesting stories which call for many pictorial presentations.

Bible (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

As it is so easy for young children to think that the Bible is a series of stories about characters and events with God as a somewhat constant background character, they love to see some drawings or want to recognise something they can associate to.
Many kids may like some pictures to bring everything alive for them. they want to see how and why God created the world, how His people messed up and how God was positioning the world to receive somebody who would take all the problems out of the world. They would love to see a Messiah which they can relate to.

But also adult do not mind to have some pictures with the long texts from the Bible. Now you  may find 1189 chapters provided each with one picture. To provide a Bible ideal for visually-oriented people, by which they can readily increase their familiarity with the text we now offer also a pictorial Bible. Like we mentioned at the opening of the Xanga and this WordPress site we may offer once more a provocation. This time for anyone to create their own version of a Pictorial Bible.

Please do find more about it and find our free download on: Picture Bible

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Free Bible software OnlineBible
from Importantia

Powerful, comprehensive Bible research software. Multiple translations, commentaries and more to aid you in studying the scriptures.

Short Program Overview

• Find any scripture passage quickly by typing in the verse and selecting the translation you want.
• 650,000 cross references that automatically display according to the verse being researched.
• Quickly locate a word or phrase in any material using the built–in search feature.
• Basic package for Windows is free.
• DVD runs under Linux and iMac as well.
• Modern Bible versions available in many languages

Basic Program Package

This Basic pack for Windows is completely free and fully functional — will not expire — no nagware or spyware. Operating system required is Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8.

The Basic Program Package for Windows is available in several languages.

English | Afrikaans | Deutsch | Français | Nederlands | Other

There is more …

The download library contains extra titles for you to download as an addition to the Basic Pack for Windows.
You can freely install and use these under Windows. The Online Bible DVD of Importantia which we can recommend, contains over thousend of titles. This DVD runs under Windows, Linux and OS X
Select your language for more information:

English | Afrikaans | Deutsch | Français | Nederlands | Other

for the extra free Christadelphian and bible Students modules, please do contact your own ecclesia or the providing ecclesia in Belgium.

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• Better and more free downloads – Become a partner11/29/2013
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• Online Bible new Base Pack / update available (version 4.28)5/13/2013
  Online Bible version 4.28 is now available for download. This update is supplied as new Basic Pack and contains all…

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The Matthew Henry Study Bible app is available for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. You can obtain this app through iTunes Appstore.

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