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Here's my question. I LOVE WordSearch. Why should I change to Logos? Thank you and God bless!
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If you love WordSearch, you don't HAVE to change to Logos as long as WordSearch still runs OK on your computer and you have no imminent plans to upgrade to a new computer.
But you will have to abandon WordSearch eventually, because Logos (= Faithlife) bought WordSearch, and support for WordSearch has now ended. You will not be able to download the WordSearch app to a new computer, there will be no bug or security fixes released, and no tech support, and you will not be able to download any new books to your WordSearch app.
Read more about the transition here:
https://www.logos.com/wordsearch
I don't know if there is any end date to when WordSearch users will be able to migrate to Logos with all their currently owned books. But I do know that the links on the above page to "See Which Books Are Coming to Logos" are already gone. But the free webinars customized to WordSearch users seem to still be available. Logos includes most of the functionality WordSearch had. There are some FAQs here.
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William Planck said:
Here's my question. I LOVE WordSearch. Why should I change to Logos? Thank you and God bless!
I was former WordSearch. I think you find, after you go through the learning curve, which is steep, that Logos is more powerful than WordSearch. Watch the free videos on You Tube and on Logos.com. They will help. And read the forums for all kinds of suggestions and helps.
And I don't think, down the road, you'll have a choice. WordSearch will eventually stop working on newer programs and systems. There is no guarantees but I am hoping Logos will be around for a while. So, I bit the bullet and started learning Logos. But I still use ZipScript!! [8-|]
xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".
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In the New Testament, the chapter with the highest frequency of imperative (command) verbs is 1 Thessalonians 5
My favorite Logos feature is visual filter highlighting so I can "see" original language verbal kind of action. English verbs have primary focus of time: past, present, future. Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek verbs have primary focus about kind of action. Visual filters can combine lots of search results for simultaneous display: e.g. 1 Thessalonians 5 in Logos Greek Morphology in The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition and The Lexham English Bible
Greek Present Tense expresses continuous kind of action. Greek Perfect Tense expresses completed action with ongoing result(s): e.g. οἴδατε (all you all know) in 1 Thessalonians 5:2
Logos Wiki has Extended Tips for Highlighting and Visual Filters
Keep Smiling [:)]
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I only need a good source to read and search our English Bibles. I am not interested in other people's opinions. 'Christianity' is mass confusion! I just want Scripture. Thank you!
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It seems that all Logos has to offer over WS is people's opinions. What can Logos do that WS can't?
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William Planck said:
What can Logos do that WS can't?
You might find https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360036135712-1-Get-Oriented-in-Logos helpful as an introduction to some of the capabilities of Logos.
It might provide some answers to your question.
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William Planck said:
It seems that all Logos has to offer over WS is people's opinions. What can Logos do that WS can't?
It offers technical analysis of the Scriptures. I don't know WS so I can't tell you what among the technical analysis tools that Logos has go beyond what WS offers. But if all you want to be able to do is read the text and do a simple search through the biblical text for a word or phrase, then there's nothing Logos can do that WS can't.
There is no need to switch to Logos because it offers you something WS doesn't. It's that WS will stop working at some point. So you will be stuck with using Logos or nothing, or your paper Bible, or BibleGateway website which is free, or any number of other free Bible read&search tools.
But, if you want to know more about what Logos offers in the areas of reading and searching: there are certain types of search that Logos can do that are pretty powerful, though. For example, it can search for morphology (perhaps WS can too?) -- for example, find all places where a verb meaning "to create" is used in the first person. By this you can easily find the places where God is talking about creating. You don't have to know Hebrew or Greek to be able to use these features. You can set it up so that as you click on each of the references, your favorite English Bible opens to that text.
Logos also has powerful highlighting and note-taking features. Not bringing you other people's opinions, but letting you dig deeper into the text yourself and figure out what you're finding in there. I'm sure WS has highlighting and notetaking too. But I am not familiar with it, so I cannot tell you whether Logos's features are any better that WS's. Maybe someone else can address that.
The screenshots that Keep Smiling 4 Jesus presented you with are also not offering you people's opinions. These are just using technology to reveal what is in the Scriptures quantitatively. I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that "all Logos has to offer over WS is people's opinions."
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William Planck said:
Here's my question. I LOVE WordSearch. Why should I change to Logos? Thank you and God bless!
Seems to me you should not. Stick with what you love as long as you can
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