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vanschoonhoven

Member Since 19 Jun 2011
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#40541 PDF files

Posted by vanschoonhoven on 27 February 2021 - 12:33 AM

Is there any way to put PDF files in E-Sword software.  Mainly just for reading in a place I can get to my bible quickly!

Jim VanSchoonhoven

 




#40437 A friend has an apple computer and wants to get the e-sword program for it!

Posted by vanschoonhoven on 11 February 2021 - 06:18 PM

I am wondering does the e-sword for apple take the same modules as the normal E-Sword for windows does?  Or are they different and if they are different are there many resources for Apple?  Also if they are different where do you find them!

 




#40352 E-Sword verses The Word programs easy to use

Posted by vanschoonhoven on 01 February 2021 - 06:34 PM

Wow guys I am thanking you for responding to my request and praising God for your answers!  In the past I understood how the programs worked very well and did most of my studies in Logos but I had done multiple classes in using is!  Then I found The Word and E-Sword and was amazed at how easy they were both to use and how if you understood both of them and bought some good Greek and Hebrew helps you could go very deep into a passage!  

So I doubt my days of Logos will ever be back and if they were I no longer own the resources!  However I believe with the Lord's help I will be able to do one or maybe even both of these programs again!

From what I understood I believe I will focus on E-Sword for right now and add The Word if I can not go as deep as I want to if my brain keeps getting better!  However it seems there might be a chance that E-Sword will be as far as I need to go and I will count on the Holy Spirit to be my teacher in the scriptures and daily living!  That is the cool part of having brain damage God has forced me to not count so much on what I can know but what He reveals to me and does through me!

Thanks guys and God bless and I will continue to pray for you even now and latter tonight!




#4864 eSword new features wish list

Posted by vanschoonhoven on 21 December 2011 - 09:54 PM

I started out using E-Sword to teach pastors how use bible software, I have ended up with theWord, because it can be simple and yet you can do so much more with it than with E-Sword. At the same time I now show more every day people how to study with bible software.  I have found it very easy for the average guy to learn a program that can go deeper than E-sword and it allows years of expansion.  Once you teach the simple ways a good program can help you study, it ends up a lot of people do want more, my idea is to help them see new ways to use the software to get more out of the scriptures.

When I start teaching new people to study with bible software, I have found that the main problem is people just have never been taught how to study the bible, the issue is seldom actually using the software.

Of course as some people have mentioned some bible programs are complicated, such as Logos.  But we are not talking about making e-sword like Logos. We are talking about little improvements that could really help the average guy do more with their time in the scriptures
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I have spent over 3000 dollars on Logos, most people will not do that, I have also spent time and money learning how to use it, and it is great, but a good program based on public domain books will do most of what Logos can do and they are easy to learn and free to get started with.  That is what most believers need to get them going.

It makes no difference to me if E-Sword allows collections and other simple things in future additions, I have theWord and Logos, but it would allow more people to do more in their bible study!


#4829 eSword new features wish list

Posted by vanschoonhoven on 21 December 2011 - 12:52 PM

The ability to make collections and search them. This allows for different grouping of your books and narrows down returns on searches makeing them more useful. For example If I have 3500 books and run a search on something I get a lot of not very helpfull answers, but if I can limit my search to a select group of books the answers are more likely meanful.  Examples of collections would be all my theology books or all my historical books or all my Chaffer books. I would not want to search my theology books for historical topics the hits would most likely not apply.  This feature greatly changes your ability to study more in ashorter period of time and is great for doing college work.