Coding the Bible

This site takes the code of some of our favorite websites (Twitter, Google, Facebook) and creates some fun, new ways to explore the Bible:

*Take a "street view" tour of any place mentioned in Scripture.
*Customize your very own Bible translation.
*See a beautiful painting of each verse based upon tagged Flickr images.
*Find out how expensive Paul's missionary trips were (including such variables as wave heights!).
*Read in real-time what people are giving up for Lent.

I can't wait to see what new projects these guys come up with. The possibilities seem almost endless: Just imagine turning to your computer and saying, "I would like a 12-part Bible Study on the importance of prayer and please used a conservative, Reformed theology to inform the study." Beep-bop-boop and the computer writes you up a great Bible Study.

We live in an incredible time for Bible scholarship.

Just don't forget: Intellectual study by itself is worthless. The Bible becomes a flat text. Tedious. Boring. In which case, ugh, Bible study can feel like a chore. But if you ask God to help you understand the Bible then the Holy Spirit will illuminate the text, the Word will become living and active, and you will love reading your Bible.

Finally, if you're into computer coding then I wanted to share this video. It's about Stephen Wolfram's new programming language and essentially, it would completely democratize the process of coding new programs and mining data. Crazy stuff: