Westminster Confession of Faith: WCF In-Line Notes in your Bible!
Logos Community,
I have created and shared a document (a Notebook), containing notes for each phrase of the entire Westminster Confession of Faith.
You can add the document to your logos library here: https://flshare.net/k45tf8
Once you add this document to logos, it does the following:
1) In your Bible, green star icons will appear before a biblical verse or passage that is referenced in the Confession (These can be turned on or off in the visual filters).
2) Hovering over a green star icon will show you the exact phrase where Westminster references the verse.
3) Clicking a green star icon will open up the note for that WCF phrase, showing you both the WCF phrase and whole WCF paragraph where that verse is referenced.
During your regular Bible reading/study, this will allow you to see how the verses in question are referenced by Westminster, essentially giving you a WCF Study Bible.
I have attached a PDF that explains how this can be used:
Please give it a try and let me know what you think!
Blessings,
Wesley W. Weber Jr.
Comments
This is something I think Logos should be providing as part of its push to be useful to the "masses" with the long learning curve.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
This is something I think Logos should be providing as part of its push to be useful to the "masses" with the long learning curve.
During my regular Bible reading, I wanted to know where the Confession referenced the Scripture, so I created it using the notes tool. It took me awhile to figure out how I wanted the notes to look/function, and I decided it best to create 1 note per WCF proof-text'd phrase.... It took awhile, but the end result seems quite beneficial so far.
I have been wondering how this idea could be incorporated directly into Logos (visual filter, etc), but I am unsure.
This is something I think Logos should be providing as part of its push to be useful to the "masses" with the long learning curve.
I think so too. If they do decide to do something like that, I hope they reach out, I have been busy trying to ensure the proof texts represent a combination of the American versions of the Confession (such as the OPC) and overseas versions such as with The Free Church of Scotland. That way, it will better serve the Reformed Logos community globally.
It is still in process, and will take me a couple months to complete this notebook fully, but hopefully it will be worth it.
Thank YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was just starting something similar. Now something else to work on.
Mike
WSC Westminster Shorter Catechism
I was thinking you finished the notebook I was working on. I did not realize there was this confession. I should say throwing the name "Westminster" around got me confused. I finished mine which was the Westminster Shorter Catechism linked to scripture.
Mike
Thank you Mike
Thank you Mike. I just downloaded it and look forward to seeing those little yellow stars in the Bible text! Thank you for your work on this!
- Chris
Wesley? Please note.
Can no longer use the highlighting tool - Logos Forums
Logos Community,
I have created and shared a document (a Notebook), containing notes for each phrase of the entire Westminster Confession of Faith.
You can add the document to your logos library here: https://flshare.net/k45tf8
Once you add this document to logos, it does the following:
1) In your Bible, green star icons will appear before a biblical verse or passage that is referenced in the Confession (These can be turned on or off in the visual filters).
2) Hovering over a green star icon will show you the exact phrase where Westminster references the verse.
3) Clicking a green star icon will open up the note for that WCF phrase, showing you both the WCF phrase and whole WCF paragraph where that verse is referenced.
During your regular Bible reading/study, this will allow you to see how the verses in question are referenced by Westminster, essentially giving you a WCF Study Bible.
I have attached a PDF that explains how this can be used:
Please give it a try and let me know what you think!
Blessings,
Wesley W. Weber Jr.
Wesley? Please note.
Milkman,
The shared notebook does not affect highlighting (I responded to the thread above).
However, It may be that you are still active in the "Westminster Confession: In-Line Notes" notebook, when you are trying to highlight. Logos may think that you are trying to save the highlight (highlights are saved as notes) into the non-writable shared folder, and this is why your highlighting seems to have turned off.
Just a guess.
Wes
Not sure what you mean by 'still active'?
Wesley? Please note.
Milkman,
The shared notebook does not affect highlighting (I responded to the thread above).
However, It may be that you are still active in the "Westminster Confession: In-Line Notes" notebook, when you are trying to highlight. Logos may think that you are trying to save the highlight (highlights are saved as notes) into the non-writable shared folder, and this is why your highlighting seems to have turned off.
Just a guess.
Wes
Not sure what you mean by 'still active'?
Milkman,
I just confirmed what I suspected. I downloaded another user's notebook, and actively selected it - meaning that I had the notes tool open and that notebook selected. Sure enough, the highlighting tool stopped creating highlights.
Again this is because Logos is trying to create a highlight (which it stores as a note for some reason) in a shared folder that I do not have access to (the folder that someone else created).
I have attached an image of what it looks like to have your notes tool open, with a notebook actively selected. Be sure that you are not active in my shared folder.... and that your highlights are being stored in either no notebook, or a notebook of your own. This should restore your highlighting.
your highlighting should work normally.
Wesley,
I never use the notes feature in Logos, so I am clueless as to how it works. Is this something we could download and store on our hard drives, so that it would work when not online, or is it something that can only be used from a shared file over the net?
It sounds like a great tool, and a considerable investment of time on your part. I appreciate you being willing to share it with everyone.
Al
Al,
When you connect the note to your Logos account or copy the notes, if you will, it will become "part" of your library and usable on your devices. It should work offline as well. I've not tried it offline yet, but I can only imagine that it would work. With that being said, I'm going to try it offline now.
-Jon
Pastor, Mt. Leonard Baptist Church, SBC
Al,
When you connect the note to your Logos account or copy the notes, if you will, it will become "part" of your library and usable on your devices. It should work offline as well. I've not tried it offline yet, but I can only imagine that it would work. With that being said, I'm going to try it offline now.
-Jon
It works exactly as you’ve stated.
Al,
When you connect the note to your Logos account or copy the notes, if you will, it will become "part" of your library and usable on your devices. It should work offline as well. I've not tried it offline yet, but I can only imagine that it would work. With that being said, I'm going to try it offline now.
-Jon
Thanks Jon
Wesley,
I never use the notes feature in Logos, so I am clueless as to how it works. Is this something we could download and store on our hard drives, so that it would work when not online, or is it something that can only be used from a shared file over the net?
It sounds like a great tool, and a considerable investment of time on your part. I appreciate you being willing to share it with everyone.
Al
if you add the document (which is a notebook in the notes tool), and once it is added, yes it downloads locally and functions similar to a book or any other resource. It will also update as I update.
If you refer to my original post and the attached .pdf, it will show you how to add it and turn the Westminster Confession In Line notes on and off via the visual filters.
Blessings!
Wes Weber Jr.
Wesley,
I never use the notes feature in Logos, so I am clueless as to how it works. Is this something we could download and store on our hard drives, so that it would work when not online, or is it something that can only be used from a shared file over the net?
It sounds like a great tool, and a considerable investment of time on your part. I appreciate you being willing to share it with everyone.
Al
if you add the document (which is a notebook in the notes tool), and once it is added, yes it downloads locally and functions similar to a book or any other resource. It will also update as I update.
If you refer to my original post and the attached .pdf, it will show you how to add it and turn the Westminster Confession In Line notes on and off via the visual filters.
Blessings!
Wes Weber Jr.
Thanks Wes. This is great.
Hi Wesley, how do I delete your WCF?
Logos Community,
I have created and shared a document (a Notebook), containing notes for each phrase of the entire Westminster Confession of Faith.
You can add the document to your logos library here: https://flshare.net/k45tf8
Once you add this document to logos, it does the following:
1) In your Bible, green star icons will appear before a biblical verse or passage that is referenced in the Confession (These can be turned on or off in the visual filters).
2) Hovering over a green star icon will show you the exact phrase where Westminster references the verse.
3) Clicking a green star icon will open up the note for that WCF phrase, showing you both the WCF phrase and whole WCF paragraph where that verse is referenced.
During your regular Bible reading/study, this will allow you to see how the verses in question are referenced by Westminster, essentially giving you a WCF Study Bible.
I have attached a PDF that explains how this can be used:
Please give it a try and let me know what you think!
Blessings,
Wesley W. Weber Jr.
Documents. Then delete the document file and the visual filter and then the notebook linked to it all.
I have created and shared a document (a Notebook), containing notes for each phrase of the entire Westminster Confession of Faith.
You can add the document to your logos library here: https://flshare.net/k45tf8
Wesley: thanks very much for pulling this together; the inline notes are very helpful. However...I've run aground with phantom, locked notes showing up in the Westminster notebook, pointing to a resource that has nothing to do with the WCF. Here is a link to the recent discussion on the forums: https://community.logos.com/forums/t/221670.aspx I contacted the Faithlife tech support people and they have no idea what's causing these notes to appear in the WCF notebook. Do you have any insight? Thanks for any suggestions you could send my way.
Mike
Logos 10, 2024 M2 Macbook Air, Sequoia, < == > Obsidian
Wow Wes, this looks great! I have watched you put this together and know you have put on a lot of work into this. Thank you! It has been great to be reading during my morning devotions and see a proof text. Then when studying a passage/verse in a commentary it is helpful to see where the WD have confessed a truth of scripture. I feel this will help those of us who subscribe to the Westminster Standards grow In our theology, and going from the Scriptures to the Confession is the proper way to go.