I'm open to using different translations. It's just that the NASB is really written on my mind, having spent so much time reading it and in some cases memorizing. I didn't really start memorizing in earnest until I joined memverse in December 2014. Then I joined this site in May 2015 and tried to use both for a while, but found it difficult to maintain both sites. So I had been using this one exclusively for the past several months ...
I haven't ever tried to find a church that exclusively used the NASB. I didn't consider that to be a priority. In finding a church, my priority is to find one that teaches God's Word without compromise and honors Jesus Christ as Lord and God.
I guess I just want to aim more for accuracy in my memorization and I'm just not enough of a genius to memorize something (for example, ESV) when a varying version of the same thing (NASB) is already in my mind, nearly memorized.
Once again, thanks for the kind words. God's blessings to you as you pursue your studies!
Well, I am sorry to tell you all, I've decided not to use this website any longer. It's an excellent website, there is no problem with that. It's more a question of needing to use the Bible version that I've used ever since I became a Christian a long time ago. Please note, I'm not saying that that version is better / not better than the versions available on this site. It's more that I spent more than 40 years reading and meditating on and memorizing Bible verses in a version that's unfortunately not available at this site. Many of those verses are deeply imprinted in my mind, and I find that when those little boxes "go away", what my mind goes back to automatically, is the New American Standard version, a version unfortunately not available here.
I decided this morning (it was a difficult decision) that rather than put a lot of effort into re-writing those verses in my mind, it would make a lot more sense to just use the version I've been used to for the past 40 plus years for memorization.
I want to say a second time, I am most certainly not saying that the NAS is superior to any other version. It's simply the version given to me by my fellow believers when I came to know Jesus Christ. I respect completely the choice of other believers to use different versions, as long as that version respects the original languages.
Sorry for my long-winded posts ....
I did also mention before that I like very much memverse's passage review feature. I like being able to see the entire context of the verses being memorized, during the entire process of reviewing them.
But I'm also very grateful for this website and for the people here who have been kind to me, and most of all for Luke's thankless and diligent hard work in maintaining and creating this website for all of us :)
Joosep! Good to see you're not able to stay away completely! How is your Bible learning going? You're welcome to come back here anytime, hope all is well with you.
Hello Robinshe! Thank you for your "welcome back". I came back and felt a bit overwhelmed by the many, many verses that were due, so I created a new account, "Tallinn". The thing is, I accidentally disabled the commenting feature, so I can see comments there but can't make my own comments using the Tallinn username :)
Things have been going just fine in the last year, and I thank God for that. I've been using Memverse and ScriptureTyper, but I plan to be back here and to use this site exclusively, for the foreseeable future.
I really thank God for His Word. I can't say enough how precious His word is to us and how wonderful it is to meditate on / deeply think about it / focus on it (I wouldn't call what I do real and true memorizing.)
As usual I've gone on long-windedly. Thank you for your warm welcome, it meant a lot.
Ha! I was right :-) I decided that either Tallinn was a friend of yours to whom you had recommended the site (and maybe you reviewed a few verses under "joosep" while you showed Tallinn how it works...) or else Tallinn was actually you ready for a fresh start here! Glad to have you back :-) I think I know what you mean about meditating rather than memorising - maybe I just have a bad long-term memory but it takes me *forever* to finish a verse, even ones I´ve reviewed dozens (hundreds?) of times. But in learning 3 verses I day I am continually finding small jewels that I did´t know were there, new discoveries, new connections, new understanding. And it doesn´t really matter if I ever know them word-perfect or not. Right now I´m working my way slowly through Acts, I´m up to Chapter 9, and really enjoying seeing everything that happened as a result of Christ´s resurrection.
yes, i agree with you. The main thing is to be obedient and let God's word sink down deep into our hearts, and then to do and to live according to what His Word says :) ... to let His word change us ...
Keep letting us know what fresh things you observe in Acts!
Maybe the commenting feature will get fixed and I'll be able to comment as "Tallinn", but until then I can comment as Joosep of course :)
Greetings from Estonia and may God bless your day!
Since this is a site with a lot of supportive online friends, I'll add a bit to what I posted back on 11 February ...
I've been using both Learnscripture and Memverse. I find both to be a great blessing, but in different ways, as they have different approaches to learning Scripture.
My wife and I have also begun teaching a Bible study which will last twelve weeks all total. This week we will take a look at the Samaritan woman in John Chapter 4. Any and all prayers are appreciated :)
I find this website, learnscripture.net , to be very, very helpful in preparing to teach a Bible study. I add the verses a week or so before the study takes place, and then they are in my queue every single day, and so I've meditated on them a lot by the time I actually teach that passage.
I wish to you all God's blessings in knowing Him and finding grace and peace in Him. Thanks for reading and all for now ...
Nice job to get to 15 million! I imagine that you are greatly blessed going through the Gospel of John. It's fascinating how his style is so distinct from that of the other Gospels. Perhaps it was because he was "the disciple whom Jesus loved". A greater intimacy with the Lord produced a different style ... ? Of course Jesus loved all the disciples, but there was something special about His relationship with John.
once again I give my congratulations! Memorizing God's Word in such a way has surely been a blessing to you, and I'm sure God uses His Word in you to bless other people too.
I've struggled with that a lot too, and I finally decided to focus on the old reviews for now. Of course, I was adding perhaps too many. But, each person has to do it according to what the Lord shows them.
Hi By Grace Alone and JDJDJD. Yes, I also got the e-mail from Luke. And the last thing he wrote in the Google group is that he's hopeful to have someone take it over. I still plan to use this site every day. I just mainly really like the passage review feature at Memverse. But this site too is excellent. Also, at Memverse, I can add verses in Estonian. Estonian is not my native language (English is), but it's my wife's native language and it's where we live. So it's nice to be able to be a student of that language and study God's word at the same time :) So ... I hope that helps ...
Well, I just want to share this so that no one "worries" about me. I've been thinking a lot lately about slowing down and focusing more on accuracy with those verses that I've already added. As noted by other people here, when those small boxes go away, accuracy decreases a lot (at least in my own case).
Also at Memverse there is a feature called Passage Review, where you can be tested on your verses and yet see the entire passage at the same time. I (personally) really like this feature. It enables me to, during the entire test, think about the entire passage, as opposed to one verse at a time (but of course this excellent site does show the last line of the previous verse).
So, all that to say, I've been spending time at both sites lately. I don't write this to recommend one site above the other, only to share with "online friends" what I'm doing, so they will not fear that I've burnt out, or something like that. I'll still be here and hope that once I've caught up with my learnscripture verses, I'll start adding verses here again, perhaps one per day.
To everyone, God's peace and blessings and presence be with you.