Search to Find the promises of God

Bruce Junkermann
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How would you write a search to find the promises of God?

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  • Frank Sauer
    Frank Sauer Member Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭✭

    This search worked for me - promise:* INTERSECTS reference:person:God

    Others may have better insight and varying options

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  • Frank Sauer
    Frank Sauer Member Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭✭

    You can also search the Public Documents for Passage Lists of God's Promises to have another option.

    Documents Tab - Select Public - Filter to Passage List - Search Promises

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  • Bruce Junkermann
    Bruce Junkermann Member Posts: 262 ✭✭
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    There seems to be some tag for this, but I'm not sure how to find it and then search for it. Anyone?

  • Bruce Junkermann
    Bruce Junkermann Member Posts: 262 ✭✭

    Right click in the passage reveals tag for search. Figured it out.

  • Mark Smith
    Mark Smith MVP Posts: 11,803

    Try: speaker:God propositionalOutline:Promise

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,877

    Note: You did not provide a definition of what you mean by "promises", therefore I would argue none of us know the answer.

    @Frank Sauer assumes you trust the Logos label tagging as described in Thompson, Jeremy. Promises in the Bible Dataset Documentation. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018.

    This search worked for me - promise:* INTERSECTS reference:person:God

    @Mark Smith assumes you trust the direct speech tagging and the discourse analysis

    Try: speaker:God propositionalOutline:Promise

    Or I might assume you want a bibliography something like this:

    Publishing, Barbour, Inc. The Bible Promise Book - Catholic Edition. Uhrichsville, OH: Barbour Books, 2013.
    Publishing, Barbour. The Bible Promise Book: One Thousand Promises from God’s Word. Uhrichsville, OH: Barbour Books, 2006.
    Zondervan. Bible Promises for You: From the New International Version. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2009.
    Water, Mark. Bible Promises Made Easy. The Made Easy Series. Alresford, Hampshire: John Hunt Publishers Ltd, 2001.
    Richards, Larry. Every Promise in the Bible. Nashville: T. Nelson Publishers, 1998.
    Lucado, Max, and Terri A. Gibbs. God’s Inspirational Promises. Nashville, TN: J. Countryman, 2001.
    Beaumont, Mike, and Martin Manser. The Handbook of Bible Promises, 2020.

    Each of these answers will give you different results.

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  • Bruce Junkermann
    Bruce Junkermann Member Posts: 262 ✭✭

    I guess what I'm looking for is what has God "promised" (future tense—"will") He will do for His people. So I wonder if maybe a search where God is the subject of a future tense verb might start to get at it?

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,877
    edited 2:48AM
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1354732#Comment_1354732

    Some might buy that definition - but the prophet Jonah did only to feel mistreated when God changed His mind. On the other hand, Abraham took such "promises" to be negotiable. 😎

    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."

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