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'''Conservapedia Study Bible''' is an online project meant for bringing a fully-fledged study [[Bible]] into a [[wiki]]-based environment. Online access to the Bible can greatly enhance its benefits. When a friend, boss, customer, or troubled individual you're trying to help says something that originated in the Bible, be able to cite the chapter and verse from where that came.  '''''Our [[:category:Conservapedia Study Bible|Conservapedia Study Bible]] is unique in footnoting verses used by great literature, [[mathematicians]], and [[scientist]]s.'''''

A 2025 study found that 51% of [[American]]s wish they read the [[Bible]] more, and that 2/3rds of Bible readers prefer to access it online.<ref name="ABS">https://www.americanbible.org/news/press-releases/articles/sotb-2025-release/</ref> "Millennials saw a 29% increase in Bible Use from 2024 to 2025 and men saw a 19% increase."<ref name="ABS"/> '''''The Conservapedia Study Bible facilitates this learning.''''' "The 2025 State of the Bible report from the American Bible Society found an increase in Bible use and engagement. According to The [[Wall Street Journal]],<ref>Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, [https://www.wsj.com/business/media/sales-of-bibles-are-booming-fueled-by-first-time-buyers-and-new-versions-d402460e Sales of Bibles Are Booming, Fueled by First-Time Buyers and New Versions]. ''WSJ''. Dec 1, 2024</ref> Bible sales have spiked, driven largely by first-time buyers."<ref name="USA Today">https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/04/20/easter-church-christian-gen-z-men/83138618007/</ref>

There are many intellectual gems to be discovered in the Bible, as made possible to access and realize with internet tools like never before. Here, the chapter-by-chapter text from the [[King James Version]] -- which is by far the most widely read [[English]] translation to this day -- provides free access to all. The footnotes are extensive here in their commentary, and continue to improve daily with references not found elsewhere to the use of the Bible by great literature, its relation to current events, and its connection with other projects.

==The Bible==
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Central to the project is the text of the [[King James Bible]], the best-selling book in history as well as the most familiar Bible to a worldwide audience.  Here, the Bible has been broken down into its sum total of 1,189 individual chapters, with each chapter, and each book, organized together within the templates which are shown below.  Each chapter will have as many cross-references as possible, connecting the topics, subjects, and thought processes already a part of the Bible.  Article links are also part of this Bible, taking the reader out of the Bible and into a detailed article about the subject itself.  

===Dates===
To help put it into historical context, the events of each chapter begin with a date.  In many chapters there are no dates; we don't know exactly when some of the Psalms,<ref>In addition to the psalms of King David, the book contains psalms that David heard through his-Holy-Spirit from ten other people: Adam the First, Melchizedek, Abraham, Moses, Heman, Jeduthun, Asaph, and the three sons of Korah.</ref> for example, were written down, and there are books (such as some of the prophets) and epistles that are essentially letters to a general audience, and dated for the time they were written down.

For the purpose of this online study Bible there are two dates.  The first date set down in black is that established by the compilations of Bishop [[James Ussher]], the archbishop of Armagh, Ireland, and creator of a chronology of the Bible which sets the date of the Creation to 4004 B.C.  His dates of the various individuals and situations have been accepted material included in many translations of the Bible in the years since, and are included in only the Old Testament of the Conservapedia Study Bible as a matter of historical record.

However, since Ussher was not privy to much source material and may have been off by a century or more in his calculations, a second date is placed alongside his in every chapter.  These dates, in <span style="color:#800000">maroon</span>, are based upon current scholarly, historical, and archaeological evidence, which as much as possible backs up the written accounts of Scripture.

== Colors ==
The Mediawiki program powering this website has the advantage of displaying colors in the text, and for the New Testament it was appropriate to display two colors for the viewing reader.  The first color is <span style="color:#ff0000">red</span>; like any Bible currently in print, red had been the traditional color highlighting the spoken words of [[Jesus Christ]], and is displayed as such throughout the Gospels and any other book and Epistle where He is quoted.

The second color is <span style="color:#A52A2A">brown</span>, and is used here in several chapters of Romans, highlighting the Roman road of salvation; a "route" as it were, for recognizing sin in one's self, and the remedy for it: the act of accepting Christ as savior.

==Subject material==
Although only placed within a few chapters as of yet, the plan for this project is to have images and maps placed within each chapter, and only such material that is specific to that chapter.

==Decline of Women with Faith==
As an Op-ed in [[USA Today]] explained in April 2025:
{{cquote|But among those who disaffiliate from the [[faith]], Gen Z women are represented in significantly higher numbers (54%) than previous generations (47% among millennials and 45% among Generation X, according to a 2023 study by the Survey Center on American Life).<ref name="USA Today"/>}}

== See also ==
*[https://pillars.taylor.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=ett-conference Connecting the Bible to Mathematics]
*[https://pillars.taylor.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=acms-2017 Ten Mathematicians Who Recognized God’s Hand in Their Work (Part 2)]
== Templates ==
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{{Template:Historical Books}}
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{{Template:Major Prophets}}
{{Template:Minor Prophets}}
{{Template:Gospels}}
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{{Template:Pauline Epistles}}
{{Template:General Epistles}}
{{Template:Revelation}}

==References==
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