How in all the world did this get on my computer? I didn't ask for it, and don't want it!
So now I want to get it OFF! What can I do to get it off?
Did you order the Perseus Arabic Collection? It is included in that.
To get rid of it you can "hide it" - see http://wiki.logos.com/Hiding_Books for details.
This will remove it from your index and hard drive. It will still be licensed to you so you could "unhide it" in the future if you so wished.
Hope this helps
Graham
Thank you for your quick reply. There's a few others that I'll hide if I'm techie enough. Thanks again!
You're very welcome.
Not that it matters but I don't want someone new to Logos or the forums to get the wrong impression. Logos does not load books that you have not requested into your system. When it is something you did not expect, it is usually something that you didn't notice in a package. Logos does download databases used in support of features - interlinears, Biblical people etc. ...
It is all down to personal choice but having a Quaran in your library is really useful as if any of your other books contains Quaranic references (i.e. apologetical works) then a mouseover will display the full source reference only if you have the Quaran in your library.
Plus if you're trying to understand the logic of John of Damascus, it's helpful as well.
John of Damascus,
add Francis of Assisi and Gregory Palamas to the list of Christians influenced by Islam
My desire is to understand Christ, and I don't need to understand anything about the Anti-Christ to understand Chrst. Sorry to any new users. And your right I did get it with that big package.
While I understand (and applaud) your desire to know Christ and make him the center of your life, I wonder if we do also need to know and understand the people in God's world also--especially if we are called to communicate with them? There is a sense in which God's people are his representative priests in his world, not merely enjoying God for ourselves but understanding and speaking wisely to humans of all persuasions. (May not be relevant for you at the moment, but that's the reason I bought a translation of the Koran.)
Anti-Christ
I was just reading a book that I suggested to be added to Logos, {Crazy Talk} A Not-So-Stuffy Dictionary of Theological Terms, and I thought that I would copy what it has for a definition for the antichrist in hope to drum up support for my suggestion: http://community.logos.com/forums/t/32768.aspx
Antichrist \AN-tee-krist\ n.
The president, the pope, and/or your mother-in-law all rolled into one. If and when the Big One actually appears it will probably look more like your grandma.
The antichrist is generally considered to be some kind of huge, powerful, international person or thing that controls all the world and faces off with the good Christians in the final struggle between good and evil.
Unfortunately, that’s generally wrong. “The antichrist” is not exactly described in any biblical passage. The idea of the antichrist is pieced together from lots of different biblical references. And then people go and make a huge deal of something that the Bible itself doesn’t even make a big deal about.
If we asked you where the antichrist appears in the Bible, you’d probably say in Revelation. . . and you’d be totally be wrong. The word antichrist only appears in the books of 1 and 2 John, Don’t believe us? Read it and weep: 1 John 2:18-22;4:3, and 2 John 1:7.
First John 2:18 suggests that there is more than just one antichrist: “As you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come.” And check this out: “Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist” (1 John 2:22). Which means that the antichrist is really an antichrist, who could pretty much be any of us.
The reason you probably got to thinking that the antichrist was in Revelation is because that’s what everyone seems to think. The line of thought goes like this: Revelation is about the end of the world, ergo we can do some fancy addition and figure that the “dragon” or “beast” of Revelation is the same as the antichrist of 1 john. But in this case, 2 + 2 = 5, which you just know is wrong.
Have you heard of the beast? No, we’re not talking “Beauty and the” here. The beast is a figure in Revelation who is all mean and kills believers and stuff. (Read chapter 13 of Revelation to hear all about it. It’s good stuff.) So technically, that character is indeed an antichrist – but it is not the antichrist. It just makes a better movie script if there’s one big, bad villain who’s easy to tell from the good guy.
Throughout HISTORY, lots of folks have been labeled the antichrist. It’s basically the ultimate smear tactic. If someone can peg their least favorite politician as the antichrist, then people can point and scream, “EVIL!” Never mind that Revelation clearly depicts the beast as sleek, suave, and stylish – more like James Bond than Jack the Ripper – and that just makes him harder to find.
In the end, don’t focus on the antichrist, but focus on Christ, who is for us. And don’t be scared by the image of some drag-nasty, horror-show monster. After all, Christ is more powerful that any beast, real or imagined. As the Good Book says, “If God is for us, who is against us?” (Romans 8:31).
Karl N. Jacobson, Crazy Talk: A Not-So-Stuffy Dictionary of Theological Terms (Augsburg Fortress, 2008). 11-12.
This makes it easy to look up all the Quranic references to Jesus and Mary (Isa and Marium in Shakir's Quran) for discussion with Muslims. If you hope to engage someday with Muslims or have Arabic students at your local university that need to hear what the Bible says about Jesus, then having the Quran in Logos can be useful.
I didn't ask for it, and don't want it!
I did ask for it and I do want it. [Yes, I have quoted it in some of my talks on the Bible!] I would also like a commentary or twenty to explain it. [If we took the time all we need [or so some have told me] is the Bible but we have many many commentaries to tell us what the Bible means. When do we get a commentary [or more] on the Koran to tell us how they interpret it? [If we can not read the Bible with out help how are we to read the scriptures of someone else with out help?] ]
