INTERNET BIBLE INDEX

INTRODUCTION
This is a work of love and a work in progress. I love the Bible and want to know it as well as my mind can allow. I started doing this work for my own use. Listing Scripture passages under topical headings that were useful to me as I interacted with other believers, witnessed to unbelievers, and as I simply wanted to know, as I studied through the Bible in the original languages, I found just how much work it was and just how useful it can be once that knowledge is properly categorized. I am only about one third done, but I introduce it for your use here now. I will add as I study further, and as I here from you with your suggestions.

This Index isn't meant to be a complete categorization of biblical knowledge, though the intent is to achieve some modest mile marker along the road to that goal. What it is NOT meant to do is to provide a theological categorization of biblical passages in the conventional sense. This is meant to be very biblically contemporary, not historically theological. For instance, if one reads a statement of faith or theological position of a time in the past, what is covered reflects the issues of the day. Issues that are not disputed are usually omitted, not because they are not important, but because they simply are not at issue.

This current work will spotlight passages pertinent to today's controversies.

YOU CAN HELP
As you study Scripture, please feel free to contact me at philperkins99@yahoo.com with suggested passages and Topic Categories.

LANGUAGES
The passages are all presented in English, NASB translation, as well as the original languages. In addition, many of the passages have special notes in red, and many of those notes have some element of the original languages.

For those of you unfamiliar with the original languages, it is common to find variant verse numbers in the Hebrew Bible, as opposed to those in the English Old Testament. It is rare that the verses are more than one verse off and the differences between the two usually reflect the fact that a verse in one version may include a bit more or less of the text than the other ot that, where one version counts as one verse, what the other counts as two. So don't be alarmed when you see that. It is only a difference in the numbering system, not a difference in the text. Chapter and verse numbers in the Hebrew will reflect the numbers in the text of the Biblica Hebraica Stuttgartensia version of the Hebrew Bible.

ARRANGEMENT AND USE
The Topic Categories are arranged alphabetically in English. The passages under each topic category and subcategory are arranged according to order of appearance in the English Bible. Some Topic Categories come with Topic Category Notes. These Notes provide an explanation of what I had in mind when I decided to start the Category, the contemporary theological importance of the Category, or what exactly the Category is.

To find a topic of interest go to the PDF page that contains the Topic Category. For "God" go to Bible Index Section God-Gospel and Evangelism. Then you may narrow your search by going to "Immutability of". And so you have a number of passages that address the immutability of God.

To find a particular passage and see its categorization in this index, go the the "Index of Scripture Passages" PDF page and find it's listing in the order of its appearance in the English Bible. For instance, if you look up Number 23:16, you will find it occurs in two Topic Categories, "Accuracy Required of God's People and "Prophecy". And under "Prophecy", Numbers 23:16 occurs in the subcategory of "Prophecy, As verbal and cognitive, not emotive".

ACCENTS, PUCTUATION, VOWEL POINTS, ETC.
In the Hebrew passages, I've included no punctuation and no vowel points, just as it appeared before the Massoretes added the vowel points and punctuations. I have, however, added the Ketiv and Qere readings as they appear in the BHS.

In the Greek passages, I have tied to include all the normal punctuation and accents. However, using the Windows keyboard layout, one has to  use the Greek Polytonic keyboard in order to type all the characters and accents common in Biblical Greek. The Polytonic keyboard doesn't include the Greek question mark which looks like an English semicolon or the Greek semicolon which appears as a dot floating above the line. So, I have used the English question mark. The Greek floating dot semicolon functions like the the English semicolon or colon. In it's place I have used the simple period. This shouldn't make any difference in the  passages, since the clauses they separate were not separated by punctuation in the original texts. The Greek reader ought to feel free to make his/her own decisions about the relationship of different clauses and even what might be included in which clauses according to the context since that is the way the text appeared in the first place.

BE PATIENT, PLEASE
I have a problem with the fonts. I have to retype all the passages as they appear in the original languages in order to produce them in PDF. As a result getting all the work I've produced published will take at least several weeks. I'll put them up as I complete them.

PROGRESS SO FAR
I have completed all the categories up to my current reading in both the Hebrew Bible and the Greek Bible. However, do to the above mentioned problem with the fonts, I have only retyped Sections A, B, and C. As I progress in both my reading and in the retyping of all the Greek and Hebrew passages, I will post them. The reading has progressed to the following points:

Old Testament--I Samuel 30:20.
New Testament--Luke 16.

BIBLE INDEX SECTIONS
Index of Scripture Passages here.
Bible Index Section A.
Bible Index Section B.
Bible Index Section C.
Bible Index Section D.
Bible Index Section E.
Bible Index Section F.
Bible Index Section G-Gender.
Bible Index Section God-Gospel and Evangelism.
Bible Index Section H-Hell.
Bible Index Section Holiness.
Bible Index Section Holy Spirit.
Bible Index Section I.
Bible Index Section J.
Bible Index Section K.
Bible Index Section L.
Bible Index Section M.
Bible Index Section O.
Bible Index Section P.
Bible Index Section R.
Bible Index Section S.
Bible Index Section T.
Bible Index Section W.