For six years this has been my favorite tool for studying Scripture. And one of my favorite things to do with it is simply word searches. Search the word "love" and it turns up 505 results. "Christ" = 499. "Jesus" gets an even 1000. "God" also has 1000 passages. Search "blood" and there are 352 verses to read. "Spirit" reveals 477 versus. And "sin" shows 420.
I love the app because of how easy it makes it to study the Bible for yourself. Of course there are lots of online tools as well like Biblegateway.com. It's important to listen to good teachers but it's more important to study and learn for ourselves, and to apply and pray Scriptures into our hearts. We must have our own theology, a belief system that we own and live by. This can only come from personal investigation of God's Commandments, followed by obedience. Searching words like "repent", "forgive", and "love", put us on a path of choice. God's Commandments, God's scripture, is for our own spiritual good. If you believe someone else is in charge of your spiritual walk and your spiritual health then you are mistaken. Christ is the only mediator between God and man. The Scriptures inform and educate us about God's heart and reveal a clear desire that he has for each one of us = freedom.
Mantis is a really great app but it's only a tool that leads us to the Truth. I like the easy technology but even if we were studying scrolls passed down to us from the apostle Paul himself the effect on our hearts should be the same.
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