FAMILY BIBLE STUDY TOOL
About
Every Bible tool stands somewhere. Here is where this one stands, what is in it, and which parts of it nobody has checked.
Last updated: 23 September 2026
The text
The complete Berean Standard Bible, placed in the public domain on 30 April 2023. No licence is required for any use of it and none is claimed here. It is the only translation this site publishes, and every Scripture quotation anywhere in the app — in a study note, a hymn commentary, a cross-reference excerpt — is rendered from the same committed corpus and checked against it by test, so a quotation cannot drift into the wording of a translation this site does not publish.
The atlas carried the Christian Standard Bible until 23 August 2026 and moved because the offline library made it a distribution question rather than a display one.
Whose readings you are reading
There are four different kinds of writing here, and they are not equal.
- Scripture — the Berean text, distinct from everything else on the page and never mixed into a note.
- Joseph Benson and John Wesley — two named commentators, in the public domain, presented as their own views. Their wording is not modernised and is eighteenth- and nineteenth-century work: it carries the historical judgements of its time, including about women, other churches and other peoples, and it is offered for critical reading rather than as settled conclusions.
- The atlas’s own notes — section headings, place descriptions, character profiles, chronology labels, and the study material written for this site. Not peer-reviewed, and written in the tradition described below.
- Machine-generated reading notes — present on every chapter, produced by a language model, reviewed by no one. See below; this is the part to be most careful with.
The tradition
The doctrinal material written for this site — the order of salvation, the means of grace, the General Rules, the sermon and hymn cards — is Wesleyan-Arminian, and says so rather than presenting itself as the plain sense of Scripture that any reader would arrive at. That means grace is held to go before every person and to be genuinely resistible; that justification and the new birth are distinguished; that a believer may fall away; and that holiness of heart and life is expected rather than optional.
Two things follow that are worth stating plainly. First, this is one reading among several held by Christians who take Scripture equally seriously — a Reformed, Lutheran, Anabaptist, Orthodox or Catholic reader will differ at specific points, and where a passage is commonly read another way the notes try to say so instead of arguing from silence. Second, no denomination is speaking here. Nothing on this site is issued by, endorsed by, or answerable to The Wesleyan Church, the United Methodist Church, or any other body, and eighteenth-century Wesley is not to be read as holding present-day denominational positions, nor the reverse.
The part nobody has checked
Every one of the 1,189 chapters carries a layer of machine-generated reading notes. They are labelled as such wherever they appear, they sit apart from the two named commentators, and no human review of them is documented. Quotations, historical claims, dates and interpretations in that layer may simply be wrong.
They are there because structure and context on every chapter is more useful than nothing on most chapters. They are not there to tell you what to do with a passage, and the tool that produces them is no longer permitted to try: application belongs to you, to whoever reads with you, and to your pastor, none of whom a language model has met. Read the notes as an index to the passage and take your reading from the Berean text and the attributed commentators beside it.
Chronology, maps and people
Dates in a chapter header describe the setting of the events narrated, which for some books is a different question from when the book was written; where the two are disputed the header says so. Map pins carry an explicit confidence label, and a location the sources do not fix is marked illustrative rather than quietly placed. Character portraits are AI-generated artistic interpretations, captioned as such, and are not depictions of anyone’s appearance.
Who made it
One person built it, working alone, and it is offered free with no advertising and nothing for sale. It is not a publication of any church or organisation. This copy is run by the administrators of this site, and the terms are honest about what that means for its reliability.
Telling someone something is wrong
Corrections are welcome and wanted, particularly on the machine-generated layer, on anything that misattributes Wesley or Benson, and on anything that reads as though the app is claiming more certainty than it has. Use Report a problem in the reading settings, which goes to the site’s administrators, or contact your administrator — the person or team that gave you access to this site.