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StoicWilly on 12/02/2017 - 15:23 logos.com (4384 clicks)
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Hey guys, the Logos Bible app is free today! The basic package which usually costs a couple hundreds is free for today

to use it for android or ios, you just need to buy it and create an account, after that you can sign in to your account that you purchase the software with on android or ios and all your purchases will be there.

This free version of Logos Bible Software puts insights from across all of Scripture—and a collection of key biblical resources—right at your fingertips. With Logos 7 Basic, you’ll do basic Bible study tasks and see for yourself how Logos can help you discover, understand, and share more of the biblical insights you crave. Customize a Bible reading plan, take notes and highlight, consult devotionals and commentaries, and more—all with the help of intuitive, interactive tools.

Logos 7 Basic is a limited-feature version of Logos 7. With no credit card required, enjoy select features that are included in Logos 7 base packages, as well as a few datasets, books, and other resources*.
*The features, datasets, and books provided in Logos 7 Basic are “access-only”, which means you have access to them, but do not own them permanently.

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        • tryagain on 13/02/2017 - 00:06
          +2

          @dazweeja: There is no real evidence that I know of to suggest any were illiterate, there is evidence that strongly points to many not being and the rest we don't know either way. Acts 4:13 is referring to being formally schooled/educated in the scriptures nothing to do with being literate, but this incorrect point seems to come up often with people who have only done read narrowly.

          The Marcan Priority seems to be the most popular although not only view among biblical scholars, not sure what you want me to say on this?

        • tryagain on 13/02/2017 - 00:09

          @bchliu: I don't know what your point is?

        • bchliu on 13/02/2017 - 06:40

          @tryagain: What was your point again? Oh.. Circular logic when you lose. LOL..

        • tryagain on 13/02/2017 - 10:15

          @bchliu:

          What was your point again? Oh.. Circular logic when you lose. LOL..

          What are you smoking? my point is that the comment about this being fake news is unsubstantiated and incorrect, you agreed.

          Fakenews it aint.

          How this makes "me lose" and what I am losing I have no idea.

          You then point out that the metaphorical pen to paper didn't happen until well after the event, this is pretty unremarkable, even common from a historical perspective and the period of time before the formal writing of the Gospels is actually pretty short by historical standards, for example, biographies of Alexander the Great were not recorded until over 400 years later but are considered historically accurate. But this is all an aside as I hadn't made any comments in regard to the gospels so not sure why you brought it up with me.

        • inherentchoice on 13/02/2017 - 14:49

          I admire your great faith to believe that. Wow.

        • dazweeja on 13/02/2017 - 16:56
          +2

          @inherentchoice:

          The Marcan Priority is the dominant view amongst biblical scholars, most of whom are Christian of course. It's pretty obvious that Matthew and Luke both copied large sections of Mark. John was a bit after for other reasons. The authors of Matthew and John were clearly not the apostles of the same names. I'm not really even sure why people are so attached to the idea that Matthew and John wrote those books. They were anonymous texts until Irenaeus attributed them to those particular authors in 185 AD (ignoring Papias who incorrectly asserted that Matthew was written in Hebrew). To suggest they weren't the real authors is not in any way denigrating the apostles or the Gospels - they didn't attach their names to those texts - it's just disagreeing with some guy more than a century after they were written who might have been mistaken or might have had his own reasons for attributing them in that fashion. No faith required whatsoever, it's merely what all the evidence very strongly suggests.

        • QuackAttack on 13/02/2017 - 19:38

          @dazweeja:
          If your world view is not as circumscribed as the sola-scriptura types or as fundamentalist as the physicalists of scientism at the other extreme, then you can find almost all the information you would like on who wrote the gospels, when they wrote, etc. Just as the original Law (Torah) was delivered by angels (Acts7:53, Gal3:19), a complete updated "bible" has been recently delivered (1930s) by "angels" in which the life of Jesus is told in much fuller detail, and the writers of the gospel accounts also well documented. For instance:

          1) The hypothesised source "Q" is likely a combination of (a) the private record made by Andrew in 30 CE of Jesus' sayings and doings (which finally burned in Alexandria about 130 CE) (UB139:1.9) and (b) a record of the sayings of Jesus written in Aramaic by Matthew also in 30 CE, known to some early church fathers (but also finally lost by fire in 416AD) (UB121:8.5-6).

          2) Mark's gospel was the first written (finished in 68 CE) of the ones we still have. It was written by John Mark who was too young to be a disciple but was an eye witness to many events of Jesus' ministry (eg He was the boy that sourced the 5 loaves and 2 fishes at the feeding of the 5000, and his parents owned the "upper room" that the last supper was held in.)

          3) Matthew's gospel was written by a student of Matthew called Isador in 71 CE. He had access to an expanded version of Matthews notes and the first 4/5ths of Mark's gospel.

          4) Luke's gospel was written by Luke (surprise!) which he started writing in 82 CE. He planned 3 books but didn't quite finish his second (Acts) before he died in 90 CE. He had access to the 4/5ths of Mark, Isador's account, Andrew's notes, an account by a disciple called Cedes, but also interviewed scores of eyewitnesses.

          5) John's gospel was written in 101 CE by a student of John called Nathan. John supplied most of the material from his memory and added things which he saw the other writers had omitted. It was normal then, just as it is nowadays to some degree, for students to put their professor's name on papers they write.

          So there is some food for thought and investigation!

        • dfaktz on 13/02/2017 - 23:41

          Not a single mention of the deep sea scrolls here!

        • bchliu on 14/02/2017 - 09:05

          @QuackAttack: Source?

        • QuackAttack on 14/02/2017 - 19:29

          @bchliu: Click the links in item 1, the other items appear in the same passage.

        • bchliu on 14/02/2017 - 20:31

          @QuackAttack: Are you kidding me? you are using one fiction book (Urantia Book) to prove that another fictional book (Bible) to be true? Here I was thinking you actually have proof that the gospels were actually written by known authors, but its just BS from Urantia?

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Urantia_Book

          This is even worse in fiction than Joseph Smith or even L.Ron.Hubbard.

          I will now also use "Harry Potter" series to prove "Magical Beasts and where to find them" to be a true and canonical historical document.

        • QuackAttack on 15/02/2017 - 00:12

          @bchliu: You can hold any opinion you like, but without a good reason it is worthless. Apart from the usual physicalist bias in wikepedia's selection of references, I see no good evidence to not take the book at face value, and its provenance as such recent history well describes it. I read Gardner before I read the UB but felt he was just another pseudo-skeptic clutching at straws to defend his physicalist world view against yet more evidence.

          There are those who won't believe in an invisible realm despite the fact that science (in expecting more than 4 dimensions) fully expects an infinity of such realms to exist. Then there are those that accept that such realms should exist but can't believe they could be inhabited by life forms that might interact with us.

          But there are plenty who do believe in an invisible realm with life forms that do interact with us - quite often because of first-hand experience or close friend evidence. For myself I simply don't think that such a large fraction of the population (including close friends) would lie or hoax about such experiences.

          But by all means enjoy your simple, empty (of anything magical), and pointless (from a grander point of view) existence if you can. Say over and over with Garder, there is nothing in heaven and earth, Horatio, that I cannot either ignore, or force to fit within my physicalist philosophy.

        • bchliu on 15/02/2017 - 00:46

          @QuackAttack: I think you are getting way way off topic here. We are not talking about the metaphysics that you have gone on about, but about the authenticity of the bible's original 4 gospels. You had put forth a number of claims and statements to say that the bible was legitimately written by Christ's apostles and used another fictional book as evidence. Two fictional books together does not make anything more "real" no matter how much you wished it did.

          Furthermore, I have no problems with understanding my existence - it requires no religion and I can still be as happy, if not happier than people with wishful thinking about things that do not exist. In fact, I can almost feel sorry for your obvious drug induced experiences of wanting your imagination to be real, instead of accepting what this world is and start loving the world for it's real qualities. I do not want to judge you for any experiences you may have in the past - but in my opinion, we can all agree that we are living in this world and we only be certain we live one life. Why not use it to experience as much of the qualities of this life as possible instead of wishing for another life or some falsely promised utopia? That is really no different to those young men that are brainwashed to have 72 virgins after they become martyrs as terrorists.

        • QuackAttack on 15/02/2017 - 02:19

          @bchliu: If you were on-topic then so was I. My answer was in response to your completely unfounded assertion that the UB was a work of fiction. You gave no reason for this assertion, so I assumed that your reasoning must be:
          (1) The book and its promoters all claim that it was sourced from non-physical intelligences,
          (2) such things don't exist,
          (3) therefore it must have been dreamt up by human intelligences,
          (4) therefore it must be fiction.
          So I addressed what I guessed was your initial incorrect prejudice (2).

          What would you say to the well known story of a trance medium communicating the latitude and longitude of a downed Russian plane to the CIA as told by president Jimmy Carter. Is that story also fiction? Was Carter lying or hoaxing? Or was it just one incredible coincidence that must perforce happen now and then? Is it really true that we cannot obtain intelligence from a non-physical realm?

          Sadly I have never tried any drugs (apart from prescription meds and a little alcohol). But I would love to be allowed to experiment on myself with some of the psychadelic ones!

        • bchliu on 15/02/2017 - 11:02

          @QuackAttack: OMG. I think you've pretty much thrown out all your arguments and evidence out the Window with your last reply. Pretty sure 99% of the people here would say hearing voices in your head and writing up a supernatural based book is a sign of schizophrenia. If I was a cult leader, I'd definitely recruit you since you're great fit.

          Sorry to break it to you - it has been proven time and time again that mediums do not exist and that all of them can be explained through either cold reading or have previous information for a hot reading.

          Anyway.. time to stop this. Feel kinda bad arguing with the Disorderly.

        • QuackAttack on 15/02/2017 - 13:03

          @bchliu: I agree that it is time to stop. Arguing with fundamentalists of any persuasion is tiresome. But I can't help noticing that you make yet another blanket pseudo-skeptic comfort statement "it has been proven … that mediums don't exist", right in the face of an example that proves the opposite! Kind of disingeneous don't you think?

          As far as denigrating voices in your head, you should be aware that some of our greatest minds have had them - for instance Socrates. His "divine voice" often warned to avoid coming misfortune and according to him "was never wrong". I would love to be blessed with such a mind with such a "problem"!

          The UB on the other hand was not obtained through any medium or human channel, but directly, by some new and unrevealed method.

    • [Deactivated] on 12/02/2017 - 21:10

      Daily mail on tablet form… oh wait.

  • Dish on 12/02/2017 - 19:02
    +9

    Going back to bible college next month. Very timely!
    Thanks OP!

  • slimdusty on 12/02/2017 - 19:24
    +2

    I have invested in ~ $1000 on commentaries on Logos, but can only access them on my iPad. I have thought about investing in the desktop version of the Logos software for quite some time so I can access those commentaries on my desktop too (which I don't do often, but would be handy at times), but still don't feel ready yet. Now I can, for free! Thanks heaps OP :-)

    • funkydan2 on 12/02/2017 - 19:27
      +4

      The way Logos prices it's packages is confusing, but I think the Engine (the raw e-reader without many bells and whistles) is always available for free on Desktop/Mobile.

      From what I can tell, the deal throws in a few books and 'datasets' for free today.

      And if you sign up to the right mailing lists, Logos gives away at least one book per month (and often has pretty massive discounts as well).

      • slimdusty on 12/02/2017 - 22:28

        Oh I see; I didn't know the desktop raw e-reader exists, as I don't usually read commentaries on the desktop, but it would be useful for those who want to do that on their desktop and are ignorant of that (like me) to know, so thanks for posting :-).

      • llama on 13/02/2017 - 18:55

        From what I can tell, the deal throws in a few books and 'datasets' for free today

        Not free today… it's ALWAYS FREE.

        See my post further down this page https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/4443168/redir

  • MessyG on 12/02/2017 - 20:09
    +3

    Aww I thought it was a retro Logo programming bible and was looking forward to my school pal, that crazy drawing turtle.

    • syousef on 12/02/2017 - 21:18

      Tell turtle you are not baptised so you're going straight to hell.

  • tmg316 on 12/02/2017 - 21:17
    +3

    I purchased the base package about 10 months ago for $2000. Its a pretty powerful product and not all computers can run it. This seems like a good deal to get the software but you will still need to pay for all of the resources.

    • JoeyJoeJoe on 12/02/2017 - 23:27
      -8

      $2k on top of your Sunday donations to a fictiotus character. Wow… this seems like a good deal. Keep up the delusions.

      JoeyJoeJoe on 12/02/2017 - 23:27 (Collapsed - Offtopic. Show)
    • llama on 13/02/2017 - 18:57

      I purchased the base package about 10 months ago for $2000

      No, you didn't. You got one of the high end packs (Platinum?)

      This seems like a good deal to get the software

      No, it's the same deal as always - the software is FREE

      but you will still need to pay for all of the resources.

      Yep… software is useless on it's own.

  • Twolate on 12/02/2017 - 21:51

    awesome find!

  • VehemenceThePhoenix on 12/02/2017 - 22:03
    +3

    I thought this was for a logo design software package

    • [Deactivated] on 13/02/2017 - 10:38
      +1

      I hope that didn't make you cross.

      • llama on 13/02/2017 - 12:12
        +1

        That nailed it, and hung it up to dry.

  • [Deactivated] on 12/02/2017 - 22:32

    I wish Logos would do this more often. Not everyone wants to buy the packages as they can be pricey. But to allow everyone to keep up with new features is welcome.

    • funkydan2 on 13/02/2017 - 10:29

      The pricing of Logos is very confusing, but my understanding is that new features in the 'core engine' are always available for free. If you were running the latest version of Logos 6, it was actually exactly the same code as Logos 7 - just branded differently. The real difference is in the 'datasets', which Logos charges for (and books).

    • llama on 13/02/2017 - 18:47

      I wish Logos would do this more often.

      They do. This is nothing special, and there is no "bonus content" in this deal.

      What funkydan2 says above seems to sum it up perfectly.

      This deal is just the Core Engine and is always free. If you want access to decent content, you pay.

  • WhereThouArt on 13/02/2017 - 00:10

    WOOOOH!

  • mooney on 13/02/2017 - 00:44
    +1

    Here's where I get stuck with religion. If there's only one true God. Why does it appear that the key attribute that will determine who's the 'right one' to worship is where I am born.

    http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0855613.html

    If I'm from Afghanistan I'm probably a fan of Islam. If I'm from Chile I'm a card carrying Roman Catholic.

    Feels a bit unfair to be shipped off to Hell and not be invited to share in the glory of Heaven just because I was born in the 'wrong' location.

    Can someone help me understand how this works? There's a lot of people in India who seem certain they've got it right, but you guys know better. I'm sure your reason is more enlightened than 'where you were born' or 'who your parents worshipped'. Help me choose! If I get this wrong I'm screwed.

    • [Deactivated] on 13/02/2017 - 01:45
      +1

      I think Ben Elton summed religion up pretty well in one of his books. Basically a higher intelligence figured out the answer to the question "Is there a God?" The Answer? If you want there to be.

    • DrDollar on 13/02/2017 - 07:11
      +3

      Isn't it amazing how there is only one true god or religion, and that everyone just happens to be born into the right one?

      How lucky!

      You're doing it wrong. Stop asking questions, start covering your eyes, listen to fairy tales and convince yourself without logic or reason. Blind yourself. Believe unconditionally. Ignorance is bliss.

      Religion is truly an amazing thing. A form of control where those controlled actually want to be.

      They must obviously not be happy with the world or humanity as they want something more. It's ok to be upset with the world or humanity of course - But those who don't know what to do about it (actually affect change) choose to be blinded instead, rather than face the reality of it.

      Those who apparently look to the bible for moral value… Are you kidding? You do not need a fairy tale to teach you morals, unless you are a child? Excuses. Excuses.

      Such a systemic issue.

      Ricky Gervais… where are you!?!?!?!?

      • tryagain on 13/02/2017 - 12:55

        Isn't it amazing how there is only one true god or religion, and that everyone just happens to be born into the right one?

        You are committing the genetic fallacy here, as you have so much wrong here to address I'll just leave a wiki link to explain it more in detail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy

        You're doing it wrong. Stop asking questions, start covering your eyes, listen to fairy tales and convince yourself without logic or reason. Blind yourself. Believe unconditionally. Ignorance is bliss.

        Just focusing one one side of an argument leads to Ignorance as you allude to and you seem to be pretty ignorant in your understanding of Christianity, perhaps you need to start asking questions and uncovering your eye's, you might be surprised.

        Religion is truly an amazing thing. A form of control where those controlled actually want to be.

        You could say the exact same thing about democracy, but I am guessing you don't rail against that.

        They must obviously not be happy with the world or humanity as they want something more. It's ok to be upset with the world or humanity of course - But those who don't know what to do about it (actually affect change) choose to be blinded instead, rather than face the reality of it.

        What on earth are you basing this on? are you insinuating that someone with religious beliefs is incapable of affecting change because of those beliefs, this sounds absolutely baseless on just about every point you make.

        Those who apparently look to the bible for moral value… Are you kidding? You do not need a fairy tale to teach you morals, unless you are a child? Excuses. Excuses.

        What's the basis for absolute moral values then?

        • DrDollar on 13/02/2017 - 18:56

          @tryagain: Hi there,

          I in fact know quite a bit about Christianity. This is why I rejected it. But please, continue on your ignorant path.

          I'm sorry, what is the basis for your beliefs?

          Please don't tell me it's a fairy tale… Oh wait, it is.

          Can you please make yourself useful and at least answer my question regarding the whereabouts of Ricky Gervais.

          Thank you and goodbye.

        • tryagain on 13/02/2017 - 20:18

          @DrDollar:

          I in fact know quite a bit about Christianity

          All evidence to the contrary

          Please don't tell me it's a fairy tale… Oh wait, it is.

          Sorry to disappoint, but it's not a fairy tale.

          Can you please make yourself useful and at least answer my question regarding the whereabouts of Ricky Gervais

          Happy too, I already did earlier in this thread https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/292015#comment-4440588 I think he has gone back to comedy as his observations about religion were mediocre at best. (might have to look in the (Collapsed - Offtopic. Show))

          Thank you and goodbye

          You're welcome, goodbye.

        • DrDollar on 13/02/2017 - 21:43

          @tryagain: What evidence?

          Shouldn't you be blindly believing all my amazing happenings?

          How's your fairy tale going?

        • tryagain on 13/02/2017 - 22:07

          @DrDollar:
          I thought you had gone, but since you haven't

          What evidence?

          Well, let's start with your insistence on calling the bible a fairy tale, The first line in Wikipedia's entry on a fairy tale is "A fairy tale is a type of short story" If you had even sighted a bible let alone read it you would realise it is anything but a short story. There is also the other baseless claims that I have already pointed out.

        • dfaktz on 13/02/2017 - 23:50
          +1

          @tryagain: I must say following this thread of pure semantics, I was confused as to why the "Genetic Fallacy" wasn't brought up immediately after you mentioned it.. It's a complete red herring and especially obvious where its quoted in reply.

          If anyone would like to read into it, its under "Red herring" list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

        • tryagain on 14/02/2017 - 02:39
          +1

          @dfaktz: I think when trying to get my head around the point he was trying to make I probably took an inference that when looking back isn't there as I had originally assumed. I'll happily stand corrected.

        • DrDollar on 14/02/2017 - 07:04

          @tryagain:
          You are correct that the bible is not short. It is not a single fairy tale… It is full of them. Have your read it?

          Also, please do not mention baseless claims when you are relying entirely on faith/belief (baseless) and nothing but a collection of fairy tales to back them up.

          I'll just leave this here.

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief#Religion

        • tryagain on 14/02/2017 - 09:00

          @DrDollar: and I'll just leave this here http://www.patheos.com/blogs/formerlyfundie/is-the-bible-jus…

    • MessyG on 13/02/2017 - 07:49
      +1

      All the same God IMO, rules and rituals have to be locally appropriate and fit cultural context. Disclosure: I'm a fence-sitter.

    • haru on 13/02/2017 - 09:52
      +4

      Hi @mooney, here's part of an answer, I'd be happy to chat more over PM (I'm paraphrasing philosopher Alvin Plantinga):

      The premise behind your question is that all worldviews are the result of cultural conditioning. Does that apply to atheism as well? If you were born in one of the countries you mentioned, you probably would have been religious. Isn't atheism then also inherited from your family or friends in a Western post-religious country? But a casual survey here would likely have scores of people coming to atheism from religious backgrounds. Atheists would say they rose out of their upbringing and came to it through reason and objective analysis. Your premise then becomes, 'all worldviews are the result of cultural conditioning, except for mine.' Can you see the irony?

      Imagine if someone told you your atheism is simply the result of cultural conditioning. You'd feel dismissed and patronised. Well, I think trying to figure out which religion is correct has to start from a place of respect (I don't mean you weren't!). I remember sitting in a religious studies lecture and my professor was talking about understanding the world's main religions. He said, 'if you don't know what you find compelling about religion XYZ, then you don't really understand that religion.'

      • Michael15286 on 13/02/2017 - 11:13
        +2

        Wow,thank you for sharing, I really like your outlook on this issue. As someone who is a Christian but is young and sometimes struggles with certain parts, I really think I could learn more from you :)

      • mooney on 13/02/2017 - 13:41

        Hi Haru.

        Thanks for taking the time to reply. I agree with some of what you are saying, for sure if I were born in India my views on religion would be quite different to my current athiest pommie viewpoint. I don't believe for a second the rules don't apply to me. I am not arguing all worldviews are a result of cultural conditioning, but religion- yeah sure- the numbers speak for themselves.

        However just because I am product of my own cultural conditioning I don't think it negates the premise of my question. If you fundamentally believe in only ONE God, resulting in all other religions being void, why is place of birth the key determinant of your religious choice? If being a Muslim is the wrong option then growing up in Afghanistan appears to be a massive disadvantage.

        What do I need to understand better? I am not trying to have a fight, it just feels arbitrary and unfair and I would love to know people of faiths view on how its acceptable.

        • haru on 14/02/2017 - 20:39

          Sorry for the late reply, I’ve been travelling for the past two days.

          I can’t speak for other faiths, but if you look at Christianity, you’ll find areas in the world where the opposite is true. That is, if you imagine a place where Christianity is not the dominant religion, and in fact has a history of being actively repressed by authorities, logically you’d think you are not likely to be a Christian there. Yet real world examples show otherwise. China is probably the biggest example, where it’s on course to become the ‘world’s most Christian nation’ by 2030. Iran is also an interesting example, where Christianity is the fastest growing religion.

          I’ve shown my cards here but I don’t agree that place of birth is the key determinant of your religious choice. It’s too simplistic for the real world.

    • [Deactivated] on 13/02/2017 - 10:44

      I am pretty sure the Dothraki get confused when they hear about 7 Gods!

    • bchliu on 14/02/2017 - 09:09

      What's worse is that the "one true God" is White and Anglo appearing in the Middle East (but still white). So.. every other nationality in the world has it wrong because God did not choose to appear there. Hence all the Asians, the native Americans, the Australian Aboriginals are all condemned to hell because God did not appear to them as Jesus for them to follow.

      whitewashed

  • ramshead on 13/02/2017 - 09:06

    When I was young,I used to pray for all the souls languishing in LIMBO. A few years ago the catholic church decreed that Limbo was an alternative fact. Bugger.

  • MementoMori on 13/02/2017 - 09:37
    +4

    I'm not Christian (or religious), but believe if you write off the entire bible because you believe it's 'nonsense' then you're the fool.

    Christianity is the cornerstone of Western Civilisation, which has provided us with many of the modern wonders we enjoy today - including this computer you are reading this message on.

    • inherentchoice on 13/02/2017 - 14:06

      I'm happy to be corrected but I'm pretty sure that science itself and the scientific method was born out of the church and Christian thinking that truth is absolute, and therefore we can investigate nature to understand truths about physics/chemistry/astronomy etc…

      Whereas a lot of other cultures teach that truth is relative or what you make it to be.

  • siresteelhell on 13/02/2017 - 11:10
    -2

    why havent the mods shut every one of these threads down instead of only the ones they dissagree with?? Biast much?

    • Michael15286 on 13/02/2017 - 11:14
      +1

      Because this one hasn't turned into a vitrol packed, comments slug fest… Yet

  • siresteelhell on 13/02/2017 - 11:16
    -4

    It always does with religion…there are only a dozen or so threads no about the religion and only about the deal… yet the mods are only closing certain ones…Any thread not about the "deal" should be closed.. It is ok to offend some people but not others apparently….

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  • llama on 13/02/2017 - 12:15

    Why the excitement?

    the Logos Bible app is free today! The basic package which usually costs a couple hundreds is free for today

    It's a subscription-based service, correct?

    So, you download a few hundred MB of data to install it… and have access it for ONE DAY?

    • funkydan2 on 13/02/2017 - 16:51

      Yes and No. Logos has a myriad of purchase/pricing systems. Some are based on subscriptions, others on purchasing e-books and datasets. The confusion may be that like most digital media systems you don't really 'own' the content, but rather have a license to access it. It's the same principal as Kindle, iBooks, Kobo etc. (though Logos can do loads more than just be an e-reader).

      My understanding is the software is always available for free. But the software is useless without books/data (like the Kindle application.) The deal with this is that a basic set of resources/books/data-sets are available to purchase for $0.

      • llama on 13/02/2017 - 18:27
        +1

        Logos has a myriad of purchase/pricing systems. Some are based on subscriptions, others on purchasing e-books and datasets

        Yes, I checked and found that they deliberately make it almost impossible to comprehend what exactly you get for your money.

        My understanding is the software is always available for free. But the software is useless without books/data (like the Kindle application.) The deal with this is that a basic set of resources/books/data-sets are available to purchase for $0.

        So, let's see
        * The software is always free.
        * The basic resource set is free to use for one day.
        * Thereafter you have software only and must subscribe to get anything useful from it.
        OR
        * The software is always free.
        * The Basic (into) resource set is free, but is extremely limited.

        What is concerning is that there is no "Basic" package actually listed on the main site. The cheapest is called "Standard" and costs $249.

        The "Compare Libraries" page is so large, convoluted and complicated that it actually locks up my web browser. So I cannot even check what each package contains, hmmmm.

        That makes me feel that this "deal" is not a deal at all… just something that is ALWAYS FREE, to hook in the gullible and then tempt them with overpriced "In App Purchases".

        Stinks of bait and switch. In fact, to a cynical pleb like me the entire site reads like a scam - especially since the bible is available at numerous places for free.

        • dfaktz on 13/02/2017 - 23:52

          If only this was the top comment.

        • funkydan2 on 14/02/2017 - 10:48

          Thanks Llama for your research. Option b is on the money.

          Calling it a scam may be a bit heated. The OP may have misunderstood that the release of Logos 7 wasn't time limited or for some strange reason he/she may have decided that ozbargain was a place to get a bunch of people to start using Logos—though if that was the case I reckon there'd be better places to advertise.

          Re 'the bible is available at numerous places for free'—Logos is more than a bible reader. Although you can use it simply as such, it's more a research tool for electronic libraries mainly geared towards professional/scholarly use. It's got a pretty small market, thus the prices. I'm surprised it got so many up votes here.

          BTW I'm no apologist for the Logos system, I'm a Christian minister and use it for some resources, though much prefer a competitors software.

        • llama on 14/02/2017 - 15:06

          @funkydan2:

          Calling it a scam may be a bit heated

          The manner in which the OP blindly followed other viral marketing, and the fact that 161 members here blindly accepted what was posted… all of whom did so without even checking the facts… is why I used such emotive words.

          I am not calling the software a scam, only the manner in which this marketing has been done.

          It's pretty sad that hardly anyone else noticed or made mention of the facts. Using a keyboard and internet is quite difficult for a cynical, agnostic and cloven-hoofed beast like myself :-D

  • denzil2fathers on 13/02/2017 - 12:21

    Does this come with unlimited redemption?

  • llama on 13/02/2017 - 18:45
    +1

    This post is SPAM, not a "deal".

    Further to my posts above, I did some research. Checking Google Cache I find that it was free back then too.

    After reading the site, I find on their forums that this "version" is ALWAYS FREE.
    https://community.logos.com/forums/p/135767/881731.aspx#8817…

    It's a starter pack. Furthermore, much of it is available as Licences for FREE anyway
    https://www.logos.com/products/search?q=price%3A%5B0+TO+0%5D…

    And you'll see on page 2 that this "Basic" version is listed in there for free. It was announced 8th Feb here:

    Seems it's been Free since 8th February and replaces a different Free version. In effect, it's a software update to bring Logos 6 users up to the latest version. It will always be free, and is a replacement for some older "Core" that was also free.

    Quote from their Forum:
    https://community.logos.com/forums/t/135767.aspx?PageIndex=1

    Logos 7 Basic Available Now (formerly free core engine)

    If you’re on a previous version of Logos, Logos 7 Basic will update you to the Logos 7 version of our software. While Logos 7 Basic is not the full-featured version of Logos 7, it is an application version update, with a few additional datasets and resources added in.

    So this deal is outrageously misleading.

    1. It is not "Free Today Only" - It's ALWAYS FREE

    2. "-The basic package which usually costs a couple hundreds is free for today" That's A LIE
      There is no basic package that is ever charged, let alone worth a couple of hundred.

    The fact that it gets 158 Votes just goes to show how some people will believe anything, eh?

    Should I neg or not? I don't want to upset all those kind souls, but geeze.

  • llama on 14/02/2017 - 09:04

    And now I ROFL at the "Expired" status of this deal.

    It's not expired…. check for yourself. This product is ALWAYS FREE.

    However, by expiring it at least it won't show up - so we should let sleeping GODS lie.

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