Flaws in interactive media

Richard Lucian
Richard Lucian Member Posts: 3
edited November 21 in English Forum

I recently purchased the Logos 10 upgrade, as I was reviewing the features I found:

 

“Interactive Media: Names of God”

 

When I looked for the name Father I found that it was not included.

 

"The Names of God interactive lists the ways that God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are referred to, according to Faithlife’s referent dataset. Facets include language, speaker, literary type, and people/places/things also mentioned in the verse.”

 

It is divided into 3 categories

God

Holy Spirit

Jesus

 

Looking at the description for the, Interactive Media: Names of God, it seems like the compiler has not taken a Trinitarian view of God when compiling the dataset or the list hasn’t been completed yet.

 

When looking at the entry; God –Mighty God there is no reference to Isa. 9:6 His name shall be called Mighty God.

 

When looking at the entries for Theos under the category- God; it doesn’t list the Septuagint entries until it reaches the Apocrypha.

 

When looking at the category Jesus,

Son of Man. Rev 1:13 is not listed in the verse list, under Son of Man.

That Rock was Christ 1Cor 10:4 does not show up.

 

There should be a category for The Father; the insinuation from the way this is formatted and the introductory paragraph is that the category; God, is referencing the Father exclusively not the Triune God.

 

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  • Jimmy Parks
    Jimmy Parks Member, Logos Employee Posts: 113

    Thank you for pointing this out to us. 

    We will review the instances of God named "Father", and incorporate those instances into the interactive. 

    There are some data specifics that would prevent us from including some of the other instances you mentioned. The Isa. 9:6 instance is a prophetic passage. We tend to under tag prophetic passages in the OT, so that we don't interpret the passage for all of our users. And in Rev 1:13 and 1 Cor 10:4, the instances are not technically names for the person Jesus. Both of these instances are references to Jesus, but they do not fit the criteria of names, so they are not included in this interactive. These instances are covered in the figurative language data though. 

    But with that said, we are working to make all of our data more unified, so that you can get the information you want without having to use multiple dataset searches to get them. 

    Again thank you for pointing these instances out to us. 

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