Claims in FSB advertisment is way over the top

tom collinge said:

I see it rignt now on this page:

You are right: while reading your post I had the same banner shown, thus I could see it white-on-green, twice.

So you are right, they make this claim. Depending on the definition, "best" could be argued. If the claim to "largest" was true (can't verify) then this would be better. But actually I'd prefer them to change this altogether, since it promotes the unecessary blur between FSB and Faithlife, which is a nuisance and may prevent the targeted to-be-customers from understanding the product. This confusion keeps them from subscribing (even for free), as has been discussed in several threads right now.

Let me explain the error of this banner: The "for groups" aspect refers to the ability to have bible study groups, to share Community Notes and documents, to interact etc. This functionality all comes with faithlife.com - so one could argue that for the digital age, a printed book that does not allow sharing, interaction etc. is not really "for groups" (since such a book's claim to be so rests on a limited sense that it a) contains helpful suggestions for a group discussion leader, or b) needs to be bought by every group member to achieve a common level as a discussion base). Thus, arguably, faithlife in connection with Logos resources facilitates bible study for online groups for the first time.

However, this does not really refer to the FSB. Actually some of it came before FSB was rolled out. In this sense, any of the study bibles existing in Logos was/is as first as the other - and people could do their digitized bible study based on any study bible they like, which might even be a helpful argument for groups that would like to use Logos and Faithlife, but fear the contamination with doctrinal impure content [no, I won't give examples].

I like the FSB. And I see that it really is better suited to (online) group bible study than the other study bibles out there - it seamlessly integrates a number of differrent translations, it not only makes short explanations, but refers to further sources of information.... The reality may well be, that FSB is the world's first study bible designed for online group bible study - it was a gift of Logos to enable all the faithlife functionality for all of our library and not just the FSB.